List of Junior Eurovision Song Contest presenters

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Presenters of the 2023 contest, from left to right: Laury Thilleman, Olivier Minne and Ophenya. Hosts-jesc2023.jpg
Presenters of the 2023 contest, from left to right: Laury Thilleman, Olivier Minne and Ophenya.

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest is an annual international song competition organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 2003. This page is a list of people who have acted as presenters in the contest.

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The contest most often is hosted by two presenters. However, there were three presenters in 2009, and from 2018 to 2021, four presenters in 2022, and just one presenter between 2014 and 2015. Kim-Lian van der Meij (Netherlands), Timur Miroshnychenko (Ukraine), Ida Nowakowska (Poland), and Olivier Minne (France) have been the only presenters to host the contest twice: Kim-Lian in 2007 and 2012, Miroshnychenko in 2009 and 2013, Nowakowska in 2019 and 2020, and Minne in 2021 and 2023.

Presenters

YearPresenter(s)Ref.
2003 Camilla Ottesen and Remee [1]
2004 Stian Barsnes Simonsen and Nadia Hasnaoui [2]
2005 Marcel Vanthilt and Maureen Louys [3]
2006 Andreea Marin Bănică and Ioana Ivan [4]
2007 Sipke Jan Bousema and Kim-Lian van der Meij [5]
2008 Alex Michael and Sophia Paraskeva [6]
2009 Ani Lorak, Timur Miroshnychenko and Dmytro Borodin (green room) [7]
2010 Leila Ismailava and Denis Kourian [8]
2011 Gohar Gasparyan and Avet Barseghyan [9]
2012 Kim-Lian van der Meij and Ewout Genemans [10]
2013 Timur Miroshnychenko and Zlata Ognevich [11]
2014 Moira Delia [12]
2015 Poli Genova [13]
2016 Ben Camille and Valerie Vella [14]
2017 Helen Kalandadze and Lizi Japaridze [15]
2018 Evgeny Perlin, Zinaida Kupriyanovich and Helena Meraai (green room) [16]
2019 Ida Nowakowska, Aleksander Sikora and Roksana Węgiel [17]
2020 Ida Nowakowska, Rafał Brzozowski and Małgorzata Tomaszewska [18]
2021 Carla Lazzari, Élodie Gossuin and Olivier Minne [19]
2022 Iveta Mukuchyan, Garik Papoyan, Karina Ignatyan and Robin the Robot [20]
2023 Olivier Minne, Laury Thilleman and Ophenya (green room) [21]

Opening Ceremony presenters

YearPresenter(s)Ref.
2007Sipke Jan Bousema and Kim-Lian van der Meij
2012Ewout Genemans and Kim-Lian van der Meij
2013Timur Miroshnychenko and Elizabeth Arfush
2014Gianni Zammit [22]
2015Joanna Dragneva [23]
2016Taryn Mamo Cefai [24]
2017Liza Tsiklauri and Mariam Mamadashvili
2018Denis Dudinsky and Anna Kviloria [16]
2019Agata Konarska and Mateusz Szymkowiak [25]
2020Mateusz Szymkowiak [26]
2021Carla Lazzari
2022 Dalita, Hamlet Arakelyan and Aram Mp3 [27]
2023Carla Lazzari, Manon Théodet and Laura Tenoudji [28]

Presenters born outside the host country

Presenters who also appeared at Eurovision

Presenters who formerly competed at Junior Eurovision

See also

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