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Children on a Eurovision stage – discuss. Did they add to a song? Or were they just an annoying distraction designed to fog the juror’s mind in a rather cynical fashion? I think the truth is somewhere in between. To be fair, not that many children appeared on stage before the rules changed in 1990. But in 1979 Peru-born Beatriz Teresa ‘Betty’ Missiego Campos had four children on stage. She finished second. Betty is 70 today.
Happy birthday, John!
