Conchita Wurst: A new pop icon?

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Hair apparent

A drag artist with a beard is representing Austria in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Tom Neuwirth’s alter ego Conchita Wurst came second in his country’s version of The X Factor eight years ago, and faced a backlash this week as it wasreported that a Russian petition had labelled Eurovision “a hot bed of sodomy”. Wurst responded: "The beard is a statement to say that you can achieve anything, no matter who you are or how you look.” (Photo: Reuters/Leonhard Foeger)