‘It wasn’t a joke to me’: Amanda Keller tells all after losing the Gold Logie to Tom Gleeson

It was the Gold Logie result that divided the nation. Now, Amanda Keller has finally unleashed on Tom Gleeson’s smear campaign.

Amanda Keller has blasted controversial Gold Logie winner Tom Gleeson in a sensational rant on Sydney radio.

The Living Room host today opened up about Gleeson’s Logies smear campaign and subsequent media blitz, where he criticised the awards.

“The lead up to the Logies was hard yakka,” Keller said on her WSFM radio show today.

While Keller said she appreciated Gleeson’s Gold Logie campaign was a “joke”, she said comments he had made in the aftermath had left her “upset”.

“He’s a comedian. I get what he was doing, which was trying to subvert the result,” Keller said today.

Tom Gleeson and Amanda Keller played up their rivalry at the Logies last month. Picture: MATRIX

“And good luck to him, he did. That’s how it goes. And I have no problem at all with that.

“But I think in his speech, when he pretty much said, ‘Everyone who works in TV, if you want to win this, you’re a big wanker, pretty much’.

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“And that kind of upset me because he was mean to Grant (Denyer), I felt, he was like, ‘I won it last year (in a campaign) for Grant and now, sucker, I’ve done it for me.’”

Keller said she had spoken to Gleeson the day after the Logies and had “no problem with Tom”.

‘I’m a comedian’. Tom Gleeson with his controversial Gold Logie. Picture: Getty Images

Keller’s commentary didn’t stop there. “His thing is comedy, so he wanted to turn it into a joke … and I like Tom, I saw him the next day at the airport,” Keller added.

“But it gave everyone permission to say, ‘yeah, you’re all up yourself, it is a big joke’.

“It wasn’t a joke to me. I don’t know why in TV we’re embarrassed to be proud of our work.”

Amanda Keller said Tom Gleeson’s Logies campaign wasn’t a joke to her. Picture: Supplied

Keller took exception with Gleeson’s suggestion that the Logies meant nothing (while accepting his award, Gleeson had told the star-studded audience to “lighten the f**k up”).

“The through line worked but then he got to a point where he said, ‘yeah, sucker for wanting this, it was all a dumb joke,’” Keller said.

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“And that’s what made me feel bad because to the other nominees, it wasn’t.”

“It didn’t upset me on the night but I think in the dialogue afterwards, he’s given everyone permission to say, ‘yeah, you’re all up yourselves’, whereas … I was proud to be nominated.”

Tom Gleeson and Amanda Keller were friendly rivals on Logies night. Picture: MATRIX

During his Gold Logie acceptance speech last month, Gleeson said his smear campaign against other nominees, including Keller, was simply humour.

“I will say this though, there’s been a lot of concern that I’m turning this award into a joke, but what you’re forgetting is I’m a comedian, I love jokes,” Gleeson said on stage at the Gold Coast ceremony.

“This award has meant so many things to so many people. And that doesn’t cease to exist,” the ABC TV comic said.

“For me, it’s a joke and I love jokes. I really think were should all lighten the f*** up, I really do.

“Do you know what would have been weirder? If I campaigned for this award sincerely … Imagine me just sincerely saying I was humbled by the award. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. It would make me want to vomit.”

News Corp Australia contacted Gleeson for comment.