All that time in Rome seems to have had a strange effect on Morrissey. Speculation today is that the former Smiths frontman is keen to take his lifelong obsession with 1960’s British popstar Sandie Shaw one step further by following her footsteps to victory at the Eurovision Song Contest:

“Morrissey expressed an interest way back last year in writing for the contest and since then we have been in talks with him,” a BBC spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

She said no decision had yet been made and there were also discussions with other artists taking place. It was also unclear whether Morrissey would perform or merely write the song.

After the victory of Finnish monster-costumed metal band Lordi last year, perhaps the UK have decided to pull out all stops in a bid to out-weird the rest of Europe. Have they decided that melancholy homoeroticism is the new camp?

“Miserable” Morrissey may cheer up Eurovision [Reuters]