When Oscar Wilde wrote: "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life", it is unlikely he was talking about the Eurovision Song Contest.

Nevertheless, Israeli television has been forced to postpone airing a comedy about the French Eurovision contestant being recruited by the Islamic State after it led to threats of France pulling out of the singing competition.

Israeli producers began working on the programme, Douze Points, last year after an Israeli singer's Eurovision victory meant that the final would be staged in Tel Aviv in May 2019.

The comedy's writers crafted an outlandish plot about how Isil hacked France’s Eurovision nomination so that a gay Muslim singer would represent the country.

The jihadists then threaten the singer so he will go along with their plot to attack Israel. But in January real life started catching up with the Israeli script.