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Carramba! Che fortuna
Italy: Eurovision stars guests on Rai Uno
"Raffaella Carrà also hosted the national final in Spain, last year, and was very impressed by some of the singers and their songs. That is what she would like to show the Italian audience", said Alberto Maeso, Raffaella Carrà's assistant.
It seems that Raffaella wants to bring some Eurovision back to Italy. Dima Bilan, Russian winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2008, was the one to open this series of Eurovision appearances on RAI Uno last Wednesday, performing his winning song Believe. There are negotiations with other Eurovision 2008 entrants to visit RAI studios in Rome, such as Greece's Kalomira, Latvia's Pirates of the Sea and Israel's Boaz Mauda.
Everytime an Eurovision-related event happens in Italy, speculations about the country's very awaited comeback to the European competition arise. Could this be the one to definitely encourage the Italian broadcaster to make their return to Eurovision after 11 years of absence?
Below you can watch Dima Bilan's performance at Carramba! Che fortuna.
Special thanks to Claudio Sartorelli for his contribution to this article.
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Yesterday Raffaella presented Ani Lorak but only with a short video from Belgrade, here it is:
http://it.youtube.co(...)/watch?v=9SRzHW-Ez2s
Jonny
Ooh, Peggy Lee is such a cute dog 
Stockholm
lmao! 
On the subject of animals, heres Katrina (from the waves) doing a BBC interview in 2005, with her poodle!! - http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=Mnk8Z6tO5gA
dima with long hair... eww
Jonny
lol. Watch these cats:
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=Al6MRU5Mc9U
Mina
Wow, your kitten can talk, and say thankyou in english??! Pretty cool kitten if you ask me lmao!!!
Stockholm
Aaah so it is Ola in your picture, I thought it looked alot like him but I wasn't 100% sure
"Like a zoo" LOL. Perhaps I should add my parrot as well but no, I'll stick to Ola 
Jonny,
he just looks very fat and yes, funny 
My kitten says thank you
Its like a zoo in here, so far we have a cat, gerbil, sheep & bird!
lmao!!! Yet another highly well thought out, intelligent answer from Mina! (Its ok, I forgive you!)
If you dont mind me saying that new cat in your picture looks a bit like a snowball lol!
Jonny,
your gerbil looks funny..LOLLLL
Stockholm
lol, I think black cats are supposed to be back luck 
Btw, the person in your picture bears a striking resemblance to ola solo, who is he!?
Jonny
lol. I would have been scared to death too Nice pic. Your gerbil is sooo cute 
(sorry, I posted half of my post last time by accident lmao!)
Continued: I went to the toilet and it was pitch black outside, and then when I went to wash my hands there was a massive black cat sitting on the bathroom window sill, and I don't have a clue where it came from, but it frightened the life out of me
(Btw, my new pic is my gerbil )
Stockholm
Aaah yes that is very true lmao! I had a very frealy experience the other day with a cat . . I
Jonny
lol And we know that the cats in Horsham live dangerously.
Stockholm
Aaah yes Parrots are cool too! And as for cats, well sorry Mina, I was kind of put off by the fact that our neighbours had 4 vicious little buggers lol
(By the way, I should point out I am neither Fiji Hindustani or Afrikaan! )
You know? he make the song bad
and the way - ugly
it's amazing how most Italians don't understand (or as our tourist guide through Italy said don't want to) speak English. I don't know why is that.... I mean I love Italian, it's beautiful language, and I hope if Italy comes back to ESC always participate on their own language (witch I don't doubt), but I had such hard time to communicate even with service in hotel. I had to learn number of my room in Italian, otherwise I couldn't get key from reception....
I can't imagine Italy participate on English in ESC, but then again that's why I want them back in ESC. Cam on Italy... join us back!!!!
I really adore this Raffaella Carrà woman! She's awesome!
Mina
Yes, I love cats
Stockholm,
and cats, too
Jonny
Yeah, gerbils are cool and parrots too.
Goeie Nag, as we say in Afrikaans
"this is almost like the good old days when you had your conversations with Musical Comedy"
lololllll!!! true though
"(And I wonder how many times I've opened your profile to have a close look at that cute gerbil )"
Awww thanks, that is just further proof on just how cool Gerbils are!!
He wants to try. Why not?
I mean, if he fails he won't lose anything. He has big domestic market .
Jonny,
this is almost like the good old days when you had your conversations with Musical Comedy
(And I wonder how many times I've opened your profile to have a close look at that cute gerbil )
Well us Brits . . err I mean Fijians all have soul connections to Gerbils. Do you know, mankind actually originated from gerbils? So you should thank the Gerbil that you are here today. Peace to all Gerbils throughout the land
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