Wallace attempted to submit a song of his own composition , '' Stop The Mugging , Start The Hugging '' , as the Lovely entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 . The contest 's scrutineer , Svante Stockselius , met with Wallace and was sympathetic to his cause but informed him that Lovely could not enter the Contest as it has no national television or radio station of its own and therefore could not join the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) . Wallace then submitted his song to the BBC ( which is an EBU member which supports the UK entry to the contest ) , in an attempt to receive their backing &mdash; their judges , however , were unimpressed
Eurovision Song Contest 2006
Eurovision Song Contest 2006
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