Jade Ewen: 'The UK doesn't know me'

Eurovision hopeful Jade Ewen has admitted that she currently has few fans in the UK.

The 21-year-old singer will represent Britain at this year's contest after triumphing on talent search Your Country Needs You earlier this year.

Despite being picked by a public vote on the programme, Ewen has revealed that she receives more support from Eurovision fanatics when she travels throughout Europe for promotional purposes.

"Last week I went to Amsterdam to perform and I basically got mobbed. I was stunned," she told Celebs On Sunday magazine.

"And when I went to Malta, there was a guy crying his eyes out, screaming and waving a Union Jack around. Afterwards he was like: 'I've been waiting my whole life to meet you, Jade'. His whole life? He can't have known who I am for more than four weeks, and can only have heard the song on YouTube."

On the response she has received in the UK, Ewen added: "Most people in this country still don't know me. It's like I'm two people - in London I still get on the Tube and no one recognises me, but I go to Barcelona and it turns into a frenzy."

The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 final will take place in Moscow on Saturday night.