Engelbert and Jedward are outside Eurovision bets

It looks like it will be another year with no Eurovision glory for the UK and Ireland this year with both Engelbert Humperdinck and Jedward outside bets with the bookies.

Sweden are hot favourites to win the annual competition with their entrant Loreen 11/8 on to take home the title with online bookmakers Oddschecker.com. Loreen's song 'Euphoria' has been in 14 European charts already this year and Number one in four countries.

76-year-old Humperdinck is now fifth favourite, although you can get odds as short as 12/1 on The Hump to win.

An outside bet for glory is The Russian Grannies, competing for Russia. The OAP group are aiming to raise money so that they can rebuild their village church, have seen their odds shorten from 14/1 to just 6/1 ahead of tomorrow’s performance.

It is bad news for Jedward however who, with odds of 38/1 must be considered an optimistic bet at best.

This year’s Eurovision contest is taking place in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan on Saturday 26 May.