Matty J joins TV stars on Gold Coast to help launch voting for 2018 Logie Awards

SOME of television’s best-known faces will put traditional rivalries aside when they gather on the Gold Coast on Monday to launch voting for the 2018 Logie Awards, which play The Star on July 1.

A BIPARTISAN delegation of TV stars will converge at Burleigh Heads on Monday to officially open voting for the 2018 TV Week Logie Awards.

TV’s night of nights will celebrate its 60th anniversary when it takes place on the Gold Coast for the first time on July 1 after Queensland successfully swiped the ceremony from his tradition home in Melbourne.

Former Gold Coast girl Leila McKinnon returns home to help launch voting for the 2018 Logie Awards. Picture: Graham Denholm/WireImage. Picture: Tara Croser.

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Previously held in May, the awards will now play The Star Gold Coast on Sunday, July 1.

The public will get a chance to vote in the 10 “Most Popular” categories — including the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian TV — from Monday, with the shortlist of nominees to be revealed on May 27.

The Logies will also introduce live voting for the Most Popular for the first time this year, reopening the votes on June 29 until the end of Channel 9’s Logie Awards red-carpet telecast from The Star Gold Coast on July 1.

Bachelor star Matty J will visit Burleigh Heads to help launch voting for the 2018 Logie Awards. Picture: John Appleyard

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Monday’s gatho in John Laws Park — better known to locals as Burleigh Hill — will see Mayor Tom Tate and TV Week editor Thomas Woodgate joined by former local favourite Leila McKinnon (Channel 9), The Bachelor Australia and Living Room charmer Matty J (Channel 10), Scarlet Vas from Neighbours (Channel 10), Kate Jenkinson from Foxtel’s Wentworth, A Place to Call Home’s Jenni Baird (Foxtel), Sea FM presenter and former Bachelor hopeful Heather Maltman, Liz Cantor (Channel 7) and House Rules winners Aaron and Daniella Winter (Channel 7).

2017 Gold Logie winner Samuel Johnson. Picture: AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy.

Details of a giant sand sculpture of a Logie to be built in the heart of the Gold Coast will also be revealed.

No news yet on whether the two big names who most loudly protested the Logies’ move to the Coast — Channel 9’s Karl Stefanovic and last year’s Logies host, Dave Hughes — will make the trip north for this year’s gala event.