Joel Creasey elicits gasps from the crowd during GQ Awards opening address
Sophie Monk has revealed how she pulled off that daring dress as she walked the ARIAs red carpet.
WARNING: RUDE
Joel Creasey shocked the A-list crowd with his hilarious – albeit quite risque – opening monologue at last night’s GQ Men of the Year Awards in Sydney.
But first, let’s talk about Sophie Monk who walked the red carpet at the GQ Awards just 24 hours after stealing the show at the ARIA awards with a daring, cleavage-baring dress.
Monk upstaged the famous musicians at the awards show when she rocked up to the red carpet with her very own wind machine.
Speaking to news.com.au at the GQ Men of the Year awards about her ARIAs red carpet stunt, Monk said: “I just thought, ‘If you can’t filter yourself and you can’t edit the photo, bring your own wind machine.’ Leaf blowers is what we use in the industry so I brought them with me.”
The Love Island host added that she went to extreme lengths to ensure she didn’t show too much on the red carpet.
“There was gaffer, booby tape, everything,” Monk said. “There had to be.
“Everyone says I have fake boobs. No … sometimes they’re around my back.”
Monk managed to avoid a red carpet disaster at the ARIAs, but she hasn’t been so lucky in the past, she told news.com.au.
“I’d say it’s gone wrong more than right,” she said. “My zipper’s come down, my G-string’s shown, and it was when it wasn’t a good undies day, y’know, your gym undies day.
“I was orange once because we got ready in a darker light so I came as an Oompa Loompa. The list goes on.”
But back to the GQ Men of the Year Awards, presented by Audi, which is an annual event that recognises and honours extraordinary men and women who lead by example and achieve great success in their chosen fields.
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Host Joel Creasey kicked off the night with a NSFW story about his recent audition to appear as a host on Play School which was met with gasps from the crowd.
“I had a half-hour phone chat with the producers, thought it went great,” the comedian said. “I hung up the phone, two minutes later my manager got an email from the producers of Play School saying, ‘We don’t think Joel is going to be right for the role.’
“I think they figured, ‘there’s a bear in there’ would have a slightly different connotation coming from me,” he joked. “‘And a chair as well’. Careful it’s got a little hole in the bottom, you might get a surprise. Open wide …”
The acid-tongued comedian then roasted some of the famous faces in the room with the guest list including Baz Luhrmann, Zendaya, Adam Goodes, Ian Thorpe, Jessica Mauboy, Sophie Monk and Julie Bishop.
Starting with the latter, whom he referred to as “The Prime Minister of Fashion”, he said: “Julie Bishop and I have a lot in common. We are both skinny, stylish blondes from Perth with the ambition to be on top. But when Julie says ‘top’ she means running the country and making important decisions. When I say I want to be ‘on top’ I mean, well, ask the closest gay sitting next to you and they’ll explain.”
The next star he singled out was Sophie Monk.
“She was the Bachelorette, host of Love Island, Hollywood movie star, winner of Celebrity Apprentice and single-handedly crushed the hopes and dreams of the other four members of Bardot. Is there anything she can’t do?” Creasey joked.
The comedian, who this week announced his Messy Bitch national tour, then turned his attention towards tennis superstar and former GQ Sportsperson of the Year, Dylan Alcott.
“I’ve been lucky enough to see Dylan’s beautiful keynote address several times in which he discusses some fairly serious and frankly unfair challenges that life has thrown at him,” the host said. “I thought, ‘Wow, could life throw much more at this poor bastard?’ And then he signed on to the reboot of Channel 9’s The Footy Show and I thought, ‘I stand corrected.”
And finally, Creasey delighted the crowd when he recalled his trip to Eurovision in Portugal where he watched Jessica Mauboy perform We Got Love.
“Let me assure you I did get love,” he joked. “I also got something else too. But you know, ‘we got the clap off a European backpacker’ doesn’t quite roll off the tongue,” he said. “Did on the night though.”
There were several standout moments during last night’s GQ Men of the Year Awards. Dan Sultan, who was named Musician of the Year, performed two incredible songs and then had the crowd in stitches when he mentioned that he was in the market for a second car before subtly thanking the show’s sponsor, Audi.
Later in the night Sophie Monk grabbed the microphone off Creasey as he walked through the crowd and performed a spontaneous rendition of Sexual Healing.
And comedian Tommy Little, who presented the GQ Social Force award, made it clear that he was single and ready to mingle.
“I’m a nice option for people in this room,” The Project star said on stage. “If you’re a female and you’re here and you’re thinking all the guys are too tall and too good looking and you want something else, throw me a root!”
The big award at the GQ Men of the Year Awards presented by Audi is the trophy for GQ Man of the Year (think of it as the Gold Logie).
Last year it went to Joel Edgerton, with previous winners including Chris Hemsworth, Hamish and Andy, Hugh Jackman and Silverchair.
This year’s winner was Aquaman star Jason Momoa who accepted the award via video.
“Never in a million years did I think that I would be the 2019 GQ International Man of the Year,” Momoa said. “I’m really stoked that I beat all the Hemsworths.”
Other winners on the night were:
GQ Chef of the Year presented by Grey Goose: Matt Stone
GQ Ensemble of the Year: True History of the Kelly Gang
GQ Agenda Setter of the Year: Scott Marsh
GQ Fashion Icon: Tommy Hilfiger
GQ Breakthrough Actor of the Year, presented by Grey Goose: Chris Pang
GQ Model of the Year, presented by Paco Rabanne: Alton Mason
GQ Musician of the Year: Dan Sultan
Audi Innovation Award, presented by Audi: Sipp Instant
GQ Social Force: HoMie
GQ Sportsperson of the Year: Ash Barty
GQ Fashion Brand of the Year: Song for the Mute
GQ TV Actor of the Year, presented by Qantas: Jacob Elordi
GQ Special Editor’s Award, presented by R.M.Williams: David Pocock
GQ Actor of the Year, presented by Coach New York: Winston Duke
GQ Woman of the Year, presented by Audi: Zendaya
GQ Film Icon, presented by Audi: Baz Luhrmann
The annual GQ Men of the Year 2019 collector’s issue is on sale Monday December 2, 2019 starring GQ’s 2019 Man of the Year Jason Momoa on the cover and featuring exclusive interviews with the 2019 GQ Men of the Year award winners
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