 De Leeuw, who is openly homosexual, flirted with the male presenter Sakis Rouvas and gave out his supposed mobile phone number.The exchange was broadcast around the world to hundreds of millions of viewers and earned De Leeuw criticism from several of the event's commentators, some of whom refused to translate it.The programme was broadcast in the Netherlands on Nederland 1 and was simulcast globally on the international Dutch-language channel BVN.