UK's Eurovision singer who 'hates' Britain applies for German passport so she can live in Spain

In a series of extreme tweets from 2020, Muller also branded the Conservative Party “racist and elitist” while campaigning for hard left ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

And while former Prime Minister Boris Johnson fought for his life in hospital with Covid, she wrote: “Unpopular opinion but I do not feel sorry for him.

“Yes, he is human, yes, he has kids, but so do 100s of other people who have actually died due to Tory policies. Taking up a bed in intensive care but you’re not on a ventilator and in ‘high spirits’? Nah mate.”

Speaking about the controversy, the 'unfazed' singer told The Times: “It was surreal.

“My mum called to say, ‘I’ve just had a heart attack. I was walking into Sainsbury’s and somebody had a newspaper with a massive picture of you.’ I was, like, ‘Oh yeah . . .’”

When asked if she regrets the tweets, she said: “No, because that’s how I felt.

“I do, though, regret people taking them out of context. Me saying, ‘I hate this country’ is not ideal as I am representing this country. But I love where I’m from.

"It’s a privilege to be born here and that’s why I felt strongly. We deserve the best and at that time this amazing country wasn’t getting the best. We were being let down.”

Muller explained that she didn't receive a "panicked" call from the BBC over her comments, and added: “They didn’t make me scrub my personality. It made me think how lucky I am that I was born in a place where I can give my opinion.”

“A lot of people who did have a problem with what I said were from the UK,” she says.

“They said, ‘You’ve lost my vote.’ Well, you can’t vote for me anyway. A lot of young women follow me and it’s important that they see they can have a voice.”

Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song | United Kingdom | Eurovision 2023

The 25-year-old, who has a large following on TikTok, was chosen by BBC bosses in partnership with management company TaP Music in the hope that, as an 'inspirational woman', she could win the contest on May 13.

According to the singer, her surname is from her grandfather Robert, a Jew who fled Germany for Britain during World War II.

And she will soon have a German passport thanks to Germany’s reconciliatory process of giving citizenship to descendants of Nazi persecution.

“It means we can live in Spain,” she said and it also means that she can tour the EU with minimal paperwork.

Muller says she has always grown up around music and by the age of nine she was in the video for Grace Kelly by Mika after being inspired to become a singer by F*ck You star Lily Allen.

Lily Allen | F*ck You (Official Video - Explicit Version)

“I’ve had a weird ride,” she explained. “But my label said not to rush. I came just before TikTok was a thing, so I didn’t need viral success overnight.

"They wanted to develop me and that is a dying idea because after TikTok took over it’s all about how fast you can go.

"That’s sad. The whole point of a label is to give you time, but now they don’t sign anyone unless they’ve had a viral hit already.”

She added: “Music is about what sells and labels are a business. It used to be, ‘Sex sells. Nobody wants to hear about crying and feeling.’

"But it is changing. I wanted to be honest about my vulnerability. Women are told, especially in music, that we have to be a good role model. But you don’t have to be that all the time.”