The six most memorable moments from the Logie Awards

This year marks the 60th annual TV Week Logie Awards and for the first time the event will be hosted on the Gold Coast.

From Karl Stefanovic’s a bit worse for wear appearance the morning after, to Julia Morris forgetting to name nominees for an award, Be takes a look back at six of the most memorable moments from the night of nights of Australian television.

Karl Stefanovic slightly worse for wear on Today

Perhaps the most memorable and also controversial moment in the history of the Logie Awards – and it happened the morning after.

Let’s think back to 2009, Karl Stefanovic rocked up to the Today set with then co-host Lisa Wilkinson still pretty out of it.

“Lisa has not slept… and neither has Karl… I’m talking about myself in the third person,” Karl said, continually giggling throughout the entire morning.

A few years later in 2014, Karl admitted in an interview posted to YouTube he was “drunk” during the segment.

“It wasn’t any different to any other year — we all get smashed at the Logies and go to work the next day; we’d done it for years and years,” he explained. “But this was the first Logies when stuff really started working on the internet.

“I remember seeing on Today Tonight and going, ‘Oh God.’ I really was drunk, or at least I certainly looked and sounded drunk.”

Waleed Aly’s speech about the need for more diversity in Australian television

In 2016 Waleed Aly dedicated his Gold Logie win to people “with unpronounceable names like Waleed”.

The Project presenter – who joined the panel in 2015 – took his win as an opportunity to promote a worthy cause – a need for change in the Australian television industry in terms of diversity.

“To Dimitri and Mustafa and all the other people with unpronounceable names like Waleed, I want to say one thing: that is that I am incredibly humbled you would even think to invest in me that way,” Waleed said accepting his award.

“But I’m also incredibly saddened by it, because the truth is you deserve more numerous and more worthy avatars than that,” he continued.

“I don’t know if and when that’s going to happen but if tonight means anything… that is the Australian public, our audience, as far as they’re concerned there is absolutely no reason that can’t change.”

Julia Morris’ forgetful moment presenting an award

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! host Julia Morris’ forgetful moment in 2015 is, ironically, one of the most memorable.

She took to the stage to present the Logie Award for Outstanding Entertainment Program.

The presenter was so busy making people laugh with joke after joke, she ended up accidentally revealing the winner of the award, The Voice, before she’d even read out the nominees. Major oops.

Julia joked on Today the next morning it was all because of Ricky Martin.

Noni Hazlehurst’s Logies Hall of Fame acceptance speech

In 2016 Noni Hazlehurst was inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame, and the actress took it as an opportunity to shed light on gender inequality in her acceptance speech.

“The fact that I’m only the second woman to be given this honour is merely a reflection of the prevailing zeitgeist,” the former Better Homes and Gardens host said. “As is the odious suggestion in some quarters that the eligibility of our esteemed colleagues, Waleed Aly and Lee Lin Chin, to be considered for the gold is questionable.

“But things are clearly changing. Here we are. But they are changing glacially slowly.

“The great thing about glaciers is that if you aren’t on them you go under. I’ve been riding that glacier for 40 years and I’m staying on top of it.”

Samuel Johnson’s tribute to his sister Connie

Just like Noni Hazlehurst and Waleed Aly, as Samuel Johnson was accepting the Logie award for Best Actor – for his performance as Molly Meldrum in the TV movie Molly – last year he took the opportunity to shed light on the need for more funding into cancer research.

The actor dedicated the award to his sister Connie who was battling cancer at the time, revealing just before the 2017 Logies she had stopped treatment.

Samuel brought attention to the not-for-profit organisation he co-founded with Connie, LoveYourSister.org, to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research.

Connie eventually passed away in September last year at the age of 33.

Carrie Bickmore honours late husband in Gold Logie acceptance speech

Australia’s golden girl of television, Carrie Bickmore took home the Gold Logie Award in 2015.

The Project presenter paid tribute to her late husband Greg Lange, who passed away from brain cancer in 2010.

“After a long, long, long battle he died from brain cancer,” she said in her heartfelt speech. “Over ten years I watched him suffer multiple seizures a day, lose feeling down one side of his body.”

She described how when their son Ollie was three-years-old he had push his dad around in a wheelchair as Greg was unable to walk.

Praising her late husband for his bravery throughout his battle with brain cancer, Carrie described how he used to wear “a lot of hats”.

She eventually launched Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer and in her speech she encouraged those on television to “whack on a beanie” to raise awareness for brain cancer research.

We can’t wait to see what the Logies have in store this year. We’re sure there will be plenty of moments to add to this list.

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