Austria welcomes JJ back home with cheers, hugs and roses after winning Eurovision Song Contest

(18 May 2025)
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Vienna, Austria - 18 May 2025
1. JJ walking through door at airport arrivals hall
2. Mid of JJ blowing kisses to fans
3. JJ talking selfie with young fan
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Lara Fichtner, student from Tirol:
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“I think JJ worked really well with his stage performance, he definitely ensnared both the old and the young generation with it. I think he’s got a lot of new fans.”
5. Mid of fans waving flags
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Franz Brabletz, salesman from Vienna:
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“I got really emotional. Thinking about it this it almost makes me tear up. It was just brilliant. We are so happy and we want to congratulate him that he managed to bring the ESC (Eurovision Song Contest) finally back to Austria.”
7. Mid of sign reading “Welcome home our winner”
8. Close of JJ picture on sign
9. Various of JJ lifting trophy

STORYLINE:
Austrian fans enthusiastically welcomed classically trained singer JJ back home at Vienna airport on Sunday after he won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest with “Wasted Love.”

As JJ walked through the gate, hundreds of fans cheered, some played his song and others surrounded the new star, hugging him and asking for autographs.

The 24-year-old countertenor, whose winning song combines operatic, multi-octave vocals with a techno twist, and who also sings at the Vienna State Opera, held up his trophy in one hand and a big bouquet of roses in the other.

JJ, whose full name is Johannes Pietsch, was Austria’s third Eurovision winner, after bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst in 2014 and Udo Jürgens in 1966.

AP Video by Philipp Jenne

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