Gold Coast steals TV’s night of nights with Star Casino to host The Logies in 2018

THE worst kept secret in Australian TV has been confirmed: the Gold Coast will become the new home of The Logies in 2018. Here’s how long you can expect to see the nation’s top celebs coming.

THE worst kept secret in Australian TV has been confirmed: the Gold Coast will become the new home of The Logies in 2018.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced this morning on the Today Show, which has been broadcasting live from Sea World’s Dolphin Cove, the awards ceremony will be hosted on the Gold Coast for the next four years..

First glimpse of $400 million tower planned for Star Casino on the Gold Coast

Ms Palaszczuk made the announcement just after 7am today and will join TV Week editor Emma Nolan and Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate at Sea World about 8am for what’s been billed as “an important announcement regarding the TV Week Logie Awards”.

The ceremony will be held at The Star Gold Coast, which showed off its credentials as a live broadcast venue when it hosted Foxtel’s CMC Awards in March.

The ceremony will most likely be held in May to allow the city time to return to normal following the 2018 Commonwealth Games in April.

Today’s announcement follows Today co-host Karl Stefanovic’s on-air rant earlier in the week during which he threatened to boycott the Logies if the awards were no longer staged in Melbourne.

Stefanovic called the Victorian Government’s decision to withdraw its $1 million annual financial support for the event “disgusting”.

C’mon Karl. Pic by Luke Marsden.

“This is a joke of giant proportions,” he said on Monday.

“This is disgusting and I will be boycotting the Logies until they’re back in Melbourne at Crown Casino.”

Ms Palaszczuk gave Stefanovic a serve over it while being interviewed him and urged him to attend the ceremony.

While the event has been held in Sydney on a handful of occasions, Melbourne has been its traditional home since the first ceremony in 1959.