All the highlights from the 2022 Logie Awards ceremony

Hamish Blake took out the night’s biggest award with a hilarious speech - but where was everybody else? Here’s what happened at the Logie Awards.

The 2022 Logie Awards were a lengthy and occasionally bumpy affair, with surprise no-shows, awkward sledges and more than a few loose moments as the night wore on.

Earlier, a slew of local celebs walked the red carpet at the Star on the Gold Coast before the ceremony got underway.

After a four-hour-plus ceremony - was it always this long? - here are the highlights and lowlights from the 2022 Logies:

Hamish wins the Gold

Hamish Blake wins the Gold Logie.

The Lego Masters presenter - “a man who's wife is so rich he can play with Lego all day,” as presenter Dave Hughes quipped - took home the night’s biggest award.

And his speech was great - he pretended to read some fine print on his statuette: “‘Congratulations, you have won 2022 Gold Logie. As there was no Gold Logie in 2021 or 2020 they jackpotted. This counts for three.’ Oh my god. I won one two years ago. To win four of these? That’s too much.”

And he paid tribute to his wife and his children - who were already in bed but who he said would watch his win on YouTube tomorrow, “when I make them.”

And as the ceremony pushed past the four-hour mark, he wrapped things up with a thank-you to the fans: “If you are watching this, you’re an insomniac. If you are also somebody that supports Australian TV, we would not be here without you. So thank you to the people at home.”

Chrissie absolutely nails it

Chrissie Swan was hilarious presenting one of the night’s first awards from the moment she got on stage with co-presenter Karl Stefanovic. As the cast of Home and Away lingered on-stage after accepting the last award, she catcalled in their direction: “Irene... get back to the cafe.”

She had a joke for every nominee in the Most Popular Lifestyle Program category - the lifeguards on Bondi Rescue made her want to “unlearn how to swim,” while she longed for the host of Love It Or List It to “come over to my house and telling me how disgusting and unlivable it is.

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But she saved her best burn for her co-presenter.

“I came to the rehearsal, so I get to do the honours,” she said pointedly when it came time to open the envelope and announce the winner - a jab which drew gasps from the crowd and a sheepish explanation from Stefanovic.

“I was having cocktails, living my best life and getting on it,” he told her.

Minutes later, cameras cut to Karl at his table, enjoying a beer with a packet of Panadol in hand. Let’s see how he’s feeling at 5:30am tomorrow morning hosting Today...

Karl's clearly got a big night planned.

A little later in the show, Stefanovic’s Today co-host Ally Langdon copped a sledge from her co-presenter, Sunrise’s Sam Mac - and this one was definitely below the belt.

He told her Today was Sunrise’s biggest breakfast TV rival - well, “behind the ABC.” Langdon winced at the joke, a reference to Today recently falling to third in the brekkie TV ratings war behind Sunrise and the ABC’s News Breakfast.

Ally Langdon and Sam Mac.

Big winners were no-shows

There were slightly awkward scenes as many of the night’s main winners weren’t present - Most Popular Actress winner Kitty Flanagan, Most Popular Actor winner Guy Pearce, Most Outstanding Actress winner Anna Torv and Most Outstanding Actor winner Richard Roxburgh all didn’t come to the Logies.

Torv was the only one to film an acceptance speech video.

“Richard Roxburgh isn’t here - and he also didn’t send in an acceptance speech video, so you’ll have to imagine what he might have said,” quipped Tim Minchin after yet another award went out to an absent actor.

At least some of the winners who were there gave good speeches.

Have You Been Paying Attention won Most Popular Comedy Program and star Sam Pang showed why during their speech: “I did want to acknowledge running into the 1967 Gold Logie winner Hazel Phillips who is here tonight. 92 years of age,” he said, before turning to the show’s host Tom Gleisner.

“Bit awkward for Tom. It’s weird when you run into an ex.”

Elsewhere, Hamish Blake won the Most Popular Presenter award, and Tony Armstrong the Graham Kennedy award for Most Popular New Talent.

See every single winner on the night here.

Big laughs for Tom Gleeson and Sophie Monk

Reigning Gold Logie winner Tom Gleeson presented an award with Sophie Monk - and they were both equally funny. Gleeson started by referencing his - ahem - animated 2019 Gold Logie speech.

“I am not apologising for being drunk; at least I was drunk late at night at an awards ceremony where it belongs. I wasn’t drunk early in the morning in the third-highest rating breakfast show, am I right?” he asked, as the camera cut to Karl Stefanovic.

Loving this comedy odd couple. Picture: Channel 9

“By the way, if (Karl) wins the Gold Logie tonight, we will know they have gone back to what they used to be - rigged.”

Monk landed a few funny one-liners of her own, mostly at her own expense - but perhaps the funniest was when they revealed the Most Popular Actor Award had been won by an absent Guy Pearce.

“Guy Pearce could not be here so I will accept it on his behalf.... but I bet he would be stoked,” she announced.

Julia Morris’ controversial opening monologue

The first thing viewers saw after two Logies-free years was a lengthy and at times quite wild opening monologue from comedian Julia Morris.

“What sort of night do we have ahead of us when we let a loose unit like me open the show,” said a pantsuit-clad Morris.

“The deal was that I could open the show as long as I dressed like a man,” she continued, telling viewers that while she was dressed in a suit, “I do identify as a woman.”

“Instead of a rich white man opening the show, they’ve gone for a white woman earning 30% less,” she said.

Julia Morris opens the 2022 Logies.

Then she railed against “cancel culture,” asking who in the room had been cancelled - and went on a spectacular rant about what exactly it takes to be a 54-year-old woman working in television.

“I’m a 54-year-old woman. I dye my hair. I wax my legs. I have botulism injected into my forehead. I have fake nails. I have age spots lasered off my décolletage. I’ve had the hoods cut back in my eyes guys. Literally my eyes cut right back and opened. I have hydro facials. I’ve a personal trainer. 54 to try and stay on the television. You know the worst thing about looking this good is?” she asked.

“No-one is allowed to tell me anymore.”

Morris’ opening monologue finished with a hilariously disastrous dance sequence.

As she wrapped her speech, Morris remarked that she used to watch the Logies from home and wonder why “the same seven people” got most of the awards and work in the TV industry.

“Here is the thing – now that I am one of them, I don’t want that to change. If we could not change that.”

It was an at times bumpy ride, with a few moments that fell flat in the room - and jokes about Twitter being irrelevant didn’t win her many fans on, surprise surprise, Twitter, where her name was trending - with many complaints it had been an unfunny opening to the show. Others wondered whether her joke about “identifying as a woman” were really necessary.

Trans jokes opening this year's #Logies by Julia Morris. Is this the best Australia can do?

— Stephanie Hume (@StephJaneHume) June 19, 2022

Julia Morris, were the ‘jokes’ about gender identity really necessary during Pride month?
#Logies2022

— Marls 🏳️‍🌈 (@comicsandpins) June 19, 2022

Julia Morris was not the right person to kick off the show #Logies2022

— Jono (@jonokik) June 19, 2022

Julia Morris assumes no one in ‘the industry’ is on Twitter anymore and then mysteriously disappears up her own egotistical arse. I used to like her. You dis my Twitter family, I disown you. #Logies2022

— Jules The Red 🐀 (@RedJules4) June 19, 2022

Julia Morris bombing so hard right now. I’m cringing at the second hand embarrassment #Logies2022

— T Highgate (@THighgate11) June 19, 2022

Patti Newton’s moving tribute to Bert

Patty Newton pays tribute to her husband, a TV icon. Picture: Channel 9

Facing her first Logies without husband Bert Newton by her side, Patti Newton presented a new award in his honour - and admitted she wasn’t sure if she’d be able to do it.

“This beautiful man of mine, isn’t he fabulous,” she said of Bert, briefly speaking about her late husband in the present tense.

“What am I going to do without him? I actually didn’t think I was going to be able to do this tonight, because it is still very raw and I will never get over him not being here. But I know he is with me,” she said.