The Barbara Dex Award is an annual unofficial award for the worst dressed act in the Eurovision Song Contest each year. The award is named after Barbara Dex who represented Belgium at Eurovision 1993 in Millstreet, and who infamously wore a rather ugly, semi-transparent, frumpy dress on the show that she made herself (“looking like a lampshade”).
First awarded in 1997, it has been awarded each year since, and is voted on by visitors of the website barbaradexaward.com after each Eurovision. More info is available on the Barbara Dex Award facebook page.
Thankfully, Dex herself takes it in good humour, stating in 2006 that there was “nothing wrong” with the Barbara Dex Award.
Here are all the winners up until 2018:
Barbara’s dress may not have been great, but the song was much better!
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Barbara has released ten albums since 1993. This is her singing in 2017:
