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Marko ”Markolio” Lehtosalo and Irma ” Lehtosalo gästar fredagens “Bergfeldt”, men på väg till recordingen støste de på patroll – literal.

– The police followed us and how lucky that Marko finally drove normally, says Irma in the SVT program and refers to the son’s penchant for driving too fast.

– Yes, I’m usually a bit generous with the gas like that, says Markoolio.

The artist says that the police car followed them for a long time on the highway.

– Then when we got close to the exit, they started the sirens.

Markoolio immediately thought that he had done nothing.

– Or do I have it?

Irma’s scolding to Markooli

They went in to the side and two policemen came up.

– Apparently there was a driving ban on the car then, says Markoolio in “Bergfeldt”.

Irma tells that Markoolio failed to pay the tax on the car.

– Yes, exactly, at SEK 400. And you started scolding me, says Markoolio.

– Yes, damn kid, says Irma while everyone in the studio laughs.

Anyone who drives with a driving ban risks a fine of SEK 1,500.

Markoolio and Irma are current with season two of their series “Marko and Irma”.

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After Ms. Snusk’s performance during Friday’s Mellogenrep, Melodifestivalen’s project manager Anders Wistbacka gathered together with the artist’s PR manager and several guards in a meeting.

An “incident” must have happened around the artist, but both SVT and the artist’s team were tight-lipped about what. Information later came that a drunken man had entered Ms. Snusk’s green room, which SVT later confirmed.

“Shocked and saddened”

Now the epa artist herself is commenting on the incident, via her PR manager Jessica W Sandberg. A man who did not belong to her team came first and sat down next to Miss Snusk, she says.

“When she then comes back to the lodges before her performance, we learn that the man sexually molested Fröken. We were, as you can understand, extremely upset. SVT immediately took this very seriously”she writes in a comment to Expressen.

Jessica W Sandberg does not want to comment on whether Miss Snusk has or will report the incident to the police.

After the incident, Ms. Snusk was “shaken and sad”, writes Jessica W Sandberg, but was still able to carry out the retraining.

SVT: “No lack of security”

Anders Wistbacka, project manager for Melodifestivalen, says in a comment that what happened is “unacceptable”. The person in question would not have been in the green room at the time, according to him.

“But there was no lack of security as the person had the correct accreditation to be there. This was a shortcoming in the editorial work that we have corrected”he says.

SVT’s security staff acted immediately and the person lost his accreditation and had to leave the arena, according to Anders Wistbacka.

Nor does SVT want to comment on a possible police report.

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Charles Koroma, who is a municipal manager on weekdays, is competing this weekend in Melodifestivalen as C-Joe.

Photo: SVEN LINDWALL

C-Joe during his performance on the center stage.

Photo: SVEN LINDWALL

The whole idea for “Ahumma” is to spread Afrobeats to the Swedish people. 32-year-old Charles Koroma came to Sweden from Sierra Leone as an eleven-year-old and has lived with music all his life.

But the fact that he would be in Melodifestivalen was far from predetermined. Rather than investing wholeheartedly in music, Charles Koroma, or C-Joe as he also calls himself, has trained as a sociologist and built a civil career in Vallentuna municipality.

– I get to be Charles Koroma, sociologist, Monday to Friday while I’m an artist on the weekends, he says and continues:

– I think it works very well. I know it’s a big contrast and people are shocked, but at the same time, I’ve always been into music, no matter what I’ve been working on.

Have taken vacation for Melodifestivalen

Eight years ago, he started at the Social Administration in Vallentuna municipality. And there he has remained.

– My nine-to-five job, it’s fun. It’s like any other person’s job. I’ve been doing it since 2016, so I know it – I’m the boss.

Several of his colleagues will be on site in Gothenburg today.

– They have always known that I was involved in music.

Ahead of Melodifestivalen’s second competition, he has taken a week off – and should a need to be off before March arise, there should be no difficulties for him to solve it.

– I have a good dialogue with my boss, there are no strange things.

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