The hosts for the upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026 have been officially confirmed. Gaia Cauchi, Destiny and Keane Cutajar will welcome audiences to Ta’ Qali this October.
Meet the hosts
Gaia Cauchi: A seasoned singer-songwriter who achieved Malta’s first victory at Junior Eurovision in 2013 with the song “The Start”. For this achievement, Gaia awarded the ฤ ieฤง ir-Repubblika, one of Malta’s most prestigious honours.
Destiny: A singer-songwriter and television personality, she achieved Malta’s second Junior Eurovision victory in 2015 with “Not My Soul”. Destiny also represented Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2021 with “Je Me Casse”, which placed 7th. Prior to that, she competed on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ in 2017 and won the second season of ‘X Factor Malta’ in 2020.
Keane Cutajar: He is a broadcaster and television presenter whose experience includes live entertainment, social media content and television productions. In 2025, Keane hosted ‘Michael McIntyre Live in Malta’ and ‘Isle of MTV 2025’. One year later, he hosted Malta’s national final for Eurovision 2026 together with Gaia Cauchi and Destiny.
Junior Eurovision 2026 begins to take shape
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026 is due to take place at 21.00 CEST, on Saturday 24 October, live from the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre (MFCC) in Ta’ Qali. Malta’s broadcaster PBS are hosting the contest for the third time, having done so previously in 2014 and 2016.
The full list of the 16 competing broadcasters is as follows:
- ๐ฆ๐ฑ RTSH (Albania) – Eslin Kurti – “Kรซrce me mua”
- ๐ฆ๐ฒ AMPTV (Armenia)
- ๐จ๐พ CyBC (Cyprus) – Haris Georgiou
- ๐ซ๐ท France Tรฉlรฉvisions (France) – Alec
- ๐ฌ๐ช GPB (Georgia) – Davit Lomidze – “Sun on the Rooftops“
- ๐ฎ๐ช TG4 (Ireland)
- ๐ฎ๐น Rai (Italy) – Matteo – “Che cos’รจ l’amore?”
- ๐ฒ๐น PBS (Malta – host)
- ๐ฒ๐ช RTCG (Montenegro) – Mija Mujoviฤ – “Muzika Nas Spaja”
- ๐ณ๐ฑ AVROTROS (Netherlands)
- ๐ฒ๐ฐ MKRTV (North Macedonia) – Ana Stojanoska – “Idnata jas”
- ๐ต๐ฑ TVP (Poland) – Wiktor Sas – “Gravity”
- ๐ต๐น RTP (Portugal) – Salvador Rio
- ๐ธ๐ฒ SMRTV (San Marino) – Violamarie
- ๐ช๐ธ RTVE (Spain) – Lucas Paulano – “Cuore Bello (Te Quiero, Te Quiero)”
- ๐บ๐ฆ Suspilne (Ukraine)
The story of Junior Eurovision 2026 so far
Malta will be hosting the 2026 edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest this year in Ta’ Qali. It marks the third time that Malta and PBS have hosted the contest. Last year’s Junior Eurovision was held in Tbilisi, Georgia, where France’s Lou Deleuze won with the song “Ce Monde”. At the close of voting, she received 248 points, with 152 coming from the juries and 96 from the online vote.
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Fernando Koziel