Edward Henrik Larsson is a Swedish professional football coach and former player. Playing as a striker, Larsson began his career with Högaborgs BK. In 1992, he moved to Helsingborg IF where in his first season his partnership up front with Mats Magnusson helped the club win promotion to Allsvenskan after 24 seasons in the lower tiers. He moved to Feyenoord in November 1993, staying for four years before leaving in 1997. During his time in the Dutch Eredivisie, he won two KNVB Cups with Feyenoord. He also broke into the Swedish national football team, and helped them finish in third place at the 1994 World Cup.
Gamla Ullevi is a football stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden, that opened on 5 April 2009. The stadium replaced the city's previous main football stadium, also called Gamla Ullevi, and is the home ground of GAIS, IFK Göteborg and Örgryte IS. It is also the national stadium for the Sweden women's national football team. The new stadium was built on the ground of the now-demolished old stadium. The construction of the stadium was surrounded by controversy, regarding the cost of the project, the alleged low standard of the finished stadium, as well as its name.
Carolina Gynning Nilsson is a Swedish glamour model, author, jewelry designer and television presenter. She started her career as a model at age sixteen. She was a participant in the Swedish version of Big Brother in 2004 and emerged as the winner of that season. Gynning has since made a career as a television presenter on TV4 and Kanal5, and also as an artist and author of several books. Gynning has participated in several television shows after Big Brother such as I huvudet på Gynning and as a celebrity dancer in season one of Let's Dance.
Sanna Viktoria Nielsen is a Swedish singer and television presenter. On her seventh attempt, she won Melodifestivalen in 2014 with the song "Undo" and so represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark, finishing in 3rd place overall. Sanna was one of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 commentators for Sweden and hosted Melodifestivalen 2015 along with comedian Robin Paulsson. She was announced as the new presenter for the sing-along show Allsång på Skansen for the summer of 2016. She hosted Eurovision The Party at the Tele2 Arena for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
Josefin Crafoord is a Swedish television and radio host. She has hosted the radio show VAKNA! med The Voice on The Voice Hiphop & RnB Sweden since 2007 with co-hosts Jakob Öqvist och Paul Haukka. The show is also televised on Kanal 5 every morning. With Kjell Eriksson as comic relief as well. Before hosting VAKNA! med The Voice, Crafoord had done radio work on Sveriges Radio P3.
Talang, formerly named Talang Sverige in 2014, is the Swedish version of the Got Talent series show where singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts and other performers compete against each other for audience support and the prize money.
Jesper Urban Jansson is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. He currently works as a sporting director for Cypriot First Division club Omonia.
Talang 2011 was the fifth season of the talent show Talang, the Swedish version of Got Talent. Both Bert Karlsson and Charlotte Perrelli returned as judges while Henrik Fexeus became the new third judge. The season featured eleven episodes and started broadcasting on 1 April 2011, with the final held on 10 June 2011. The season was won by speedcuber Simon Westlund. After the 2011 season, TV4 put the show on indefinite hiatus, until TV3 announced in June 2013 that they had acquired the rights for the show and would re-launch the show in Spring 2014 under the name "Talang Sverige".
Jon Henrik Mario Fjällgren is a Colombian-born Swedish-Sámi singer and jojkare, an interpreter of Sámi joik. He was the winner of Talang Sverige 2014, the Swedish version of Got Talent. Upon winning the competition he released the music album Goeksegh. He has participated in Melodifestivalen four times, in 2015 he placed second, in 2017 he placed third, and in 2019 and 2023 he placed fourth.
Jan Olof Jansson is a Swedish television personality, who participated in The Farm in 2003 and The Farm Africa in 2004, both of which were broadcast on TV4. He became well known in the Swedish press, with the nickname "Naken-Janne" because he walked around nude in most episodes of the two seasons he participated in The Farm.
Jan Robert Andersson, commonly known as Robban Andersson or Robinson-Robban, is a Swedish television personality who has participated in Expedition Robinson several times from 1999 until 2012. He has also participated in the celebrity version of Big Brother and in the Gladiatorerna.
Carl Henrik Jordan Larsson is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Danish club Copenhagen. Born in Scotland, he represents the Sweden national team. Starting his career with Högaborgs BK in Sweden in the early 2010s, Larsson represented Helsingborgs IF, NEC Nijmegen, and IFK Norrköping before joining Spartak Moscow in 2019. He made his full international debut for the Sweden national team in 2018 and was a squad member at UEFA Euro 2020.
Melodifestivalen 2015 was the Swedish music competition that selected Sweden's 55th entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. Måns Zelmerlöw won with the song "Heroes". The hosts for the show were Sanna Nielsen and comedian Robin Paulsson.
This is a list of Swedish television related events from 2014.
"Jag är fri" is a joik song performed by Jon Henrik Fjällgren appearing on his album Goeksegh - Jag är fri. The song was co-written by Jon Henrik Fjällgren, Erik Holmberg, Tony Malm and Josef Melin. The 2015 album Goeksegh - Jag är fri was a rerelease of Fjällgren's album Goeksegh on occasion of him taking part in Melodifestivalen 2015 in a bid to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Austria. Goeksegh - Jag är fri is a 12-track album opening with "Jag är fri", with the remaining 11 tracks being taken from the Goeksegh in the same sequence.
Malin Veronica Gramer is a Swedish actress and television presenter. Gramer starred in the film Trekant (1994) in which she had the lead role. She has presented the kids show Lattjo Lajban broadcast on TV4, and the game show Lyckochansen at TV3. In 2011–2013, Gramer presented Fråga Olle, a documentary series on sexuality, which was broadcast on Kanal5 and in 2013, she also hosted Min man kan on the same channel. Since 2013, she is also presenting Paradise Hotel on TV3, while she has also co-hosted Talang Sverige 2014 along with Adam Alsing, she also presented the show Jagad av hundar. On 24 August 2019, TV4 announced that it had recruited Gramer as host of the channel's reality show Love Island Sverige.
Alexander "Alex" Ken Hermansson, is a Swedish YouTube and television presenter. Hermansson was a member of the extremesports and entertainment group Rackartygarna.
Ida Rebecka Eloise Karlsson is a Swedish singer. At the age of eight she participated in Talang 2009 which is broadcast on TV4. She again participated on the show in Talang 2014 which was broadcast on TV3, making it to the semifinal. In 2014, she signed with Popopjone Records and released the music single "Ghost Flower", which also became the official song for the LGBT-festival Pride Ung in Stockholm. Karlsson participated as a contestant on Idol 2016, ending up in second place during the 8 December final in Globen. She competed in Melodifestivalen 2019 with the song "Who I Am" and made it to the Second Chance Round.
Bombings in Sweden are attacks and sabotage using explosive devices by criminals in Sweden. The weapons used are weapons such as hand grenades and explosives intended for either civilian or military use. Legal authorities use the term allmänfarlig ödeläggelse genom sprängning and media in Sweden use the shorter term sprängdåd. This crime was not categorized separately prior to 2017. In 2018 there were 162 explosions, and in the first nine months of 2019 97 explosions were registered, usually carried out by criminal gangs. According to Swedish police commissioner Anders Thornberg in 2019, there is no international equivalent to Sweden's wave of bombings.
Melodifestivalen 2023 was the 63rd edition of the Swedish music competition Melodifestivalen, which was organised by Sveriges Television (SVT) and took place over a six-week period between 4 February and 11 March 2023. The winner of the competition was Loreen with the song "Tattoo", who went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 for Sweden. All shows were hosted by Farah Abadi and Jesper Rönndahl.
