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10:42AM Jess McGuire | Let’s ignore the fact that I was sleeping off illness and missed the live Logies broadcast. Who needs to actually watch it on Channel 9 these days, anyway? Between celebrities updating their Twitter accounts through out the night and citizens of this fine country uploading footage to YouTube, it’s possible to piece together an opinion on the event without ever having switched on your telly. More »
Gretel Killeen As Logies Host: The Verdict
10:42AM Jess McGuire | Let’s ignore the fact that I was sleeping off illness and missed the live Logies broadcast. Who needs to actually watch it on Channel 9 these days, anyway? Between celebrities updating their Twitter accounts through out the night and citizens of this fine country uploading footage to YouTube, it’s possible to piece together an opinion on the event without ever having switched on your telly. More » 
Insider Footage From The TV Week Logie Awards
2:21PM Jess McGuire | Turns out Defamer Australia had an operative working at the TV Week Logie Awards, gathering secret footage via the magic of a mobile phone video recorder, AND WE DIDN’T EVEN REALISE.
Well, to be fair, we never asked Red Symons to collect such blurry nuggets of behind-the-scenes gold for us, but thank god he did. Well done, sir.
Featuring cameo appearances from Larry Emdur, Grant Denyer, Jennifer Hawkins, and Kate Ceberano’s cans, we couldn’t be more pleased with the clip, as it shows us – in a total Being John Malkovich sort of way – just what it’s like to experience the wonder of the TV Week Logie Awards from the perspective of a guest.
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Defamer Australia’s Wrap Up Of The TV Week Logie Awards
11:19AM Jess McGuire | How on earth do we begin wrapping up an awards ceremony as ridiculously extravagant and gripping as The Logies? With great haste, little introduction, and by using an excessive amount of bold capitalised font to appropriately convey our over-excited perspective on the evening. Let’s roll.
BIGGEST SHOCK OF THE EVENING! When the award for Most Outstanding Children’s TV Program went to the Umbilical Brothers, we were gutted to discover the two are not in fact brothers, and it’s not as if it’s a case that they both coincidentally share the same surname of Umbilical. They’re totally unrelated, and their names are Shane Dundas and David Collins. We feel like we’ve been lied to all our lives. On the upside, their onstage antics (peace signs behind the head of their producer, the odd popping sound) proved once and for all their special brand of comedy will never age, but rather stay as fresh and relevant as ever. Ahem.
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