As is now traditional, the names of the jurors of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest were revealed following the Grand Final. So, as is now traditional, let’s see who they were.
There were 184 jurors this year, 5 from each country taking part in the Contest, except for Estonia, who had 4 (presumably because of last-minute unavailability).
Of those 184, 24 had been jurors at least once before. Four of them had been jurors twice before: Croatia’s Monika Lelas Halambek (also their spokesperson in 2019); San Marino’s Fabrizio Raggi; Serbia’s Ivana Peters (writer of their 2016 entry); and Sweden’s Anna Charlotta Gunnarson. By far the most experienced was Michael Cederberg, also from Sweden, who was on his sixth go, having been a juror in 2009, 2010, 2014, 2017 and 2022 – twice as Chair.
Previous artists comprised 13 of this year’s jurors (hopefully they didn’t go to dinner together). They were Spain’s Anabel Conde; Estonia’s Ott Lepland and Elina Nechayeva; Luxembourg’s 1971 entrant Monique Melsen; Željko Vukčević from Montenegro’s D mol; Serbia’s Bojana Stamenov; Eva Boto and Ana Soklič from Slovenia; Ochman from Poland; Andrew Lambrou, who represented Cyprus, and Simone Dow from the band Voyager on Australia’s jury; and Tural from Azerbaijan’s duo TuralTuranX.
Broadcasters often recruit jurors for their national final artists and 2025 was no exception, with at least 10 performers taking part as jurors. These were Aidan Cassar from Malta; Mia Negovetić from Croatia; Theo (formerly Theoz) from Sweden; Iris from Ladybug and Reidun Sæther from Norway; Mel Ömana from Spain; Bjarni Arason from Iceland; Jon Vitezič from Slovenia; Vasilisa Subotic from Germany; and Simon from Armenia. (Update: Six on Stage national final data is patchy beyond the last couple of years so thanks to Martin Faulkner for pointing out that Carolin Fortenbacher was also a previous national finalist – and only a few votes short of being in the entrant – for Germany in 2008.)
Of the remaining jurors, a number have previous connections to Eurovision. Danish juror Mads Enggaard Jørgensen has been a Viewing Room Producer for several Contests, as well as staging performances for Azerbaijan and Denmark and singing backing vocals a couple of times.
Armenia’s Lilit Navasardyan has written two of her countries’ entries and provided backing vocals for one of those, LoveWave, in 2016.
And as well as being a house dancer for Melodifestivalen, Sweden’s Kenny Lantz has danced at Eurovision for Sweden, Switzerland and Cyprus. In 2024, he was on stage helping to operate Nemo‘s spinning disc!