SBS presenter Lee Lin Chin won’t campaign for herself if she is nominated for a Gold Logie
IF Lee Lin Chinis up for a Gold Logie next year, the veteran TV newsreader will not be leading the campaign.
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IF Lee Lin Chinis up for a Gold Logie next year, the veteran TV newsreader will not be leading the campaign.
Chin was, to some, a surprise favourite ahead of the 2016 Logie Awards in the category, eventually won by The Project’s Waleed Aly.
“I didn’t realise that one has to campaign to be in the nominations for the Logies,” Chin told Confidential in a rare interview for the SBS broadcaster.
“I thought the Logies themselves just look around and select people they feel should be on their nominations list. So no, I am not campaigning for myself or pushing for myself to be nominated.”
Whether she likes it or not, Chin was a hugely popular addition to the Gold Logie nominee list last year and is a strong contender to get a guernsey again in 2018.
“It was such a scary, embarrassing thing,” she said of the nomination.
“That experience once is quite enough. I am somebody who, you may have noticed, keeps a very low profile.
“I am my own worst critic, so it still surprises me people say they respect me.”
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Chin spoke to Confidential ahead of this weekend’s Singapore: Inside Out festival at The Old Clare Hotel in Chippendale at which she is will make a rare public appearance.
As a respected newsreader and broadcaster, she was keen to discuss the big issues in the world today and had something to say about the ongoing Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal that has engulfed Hollywood.
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“What is fascinating me is how widespread it is and I am sure it is not just women who are the targets,” she said.
“Every day somebody is coming out with something and in time we will find that this is rampant in almost every sphere of life, somebody with a little bit of power exercising it in this kind of way towards somebody in a helpless position, comparatively speaking.
“I don’t think it should be tolerated and it is a good thing that it has all come out into the open.”