Flamboyant pop star Mika has been approached to compose a song for the U.K. to be performed in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

Josh Dubovie was left red-faced after placing last in the annual contest in May with a song written by record producer Pete Waterman.

Now show producers want Mika, who was born in Lebanon but raised in London, to fly the flag for Britain by pitching a better track to compete in the European song competition.

A BBC source tells The Sun, “It’s always a difficult call trying to get a decent song together for Eurovision, as this year proved. We had Pete Waterman overseeing it this year but we still came last. Mika has all the right ingredients to make a successful song. We hope he says yes.”

via Orange UK.