Logies big winners reveal the career regrets that haunt them

WHAT career defeats stick in the side of Logie winners like Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Samuel Johnson? We got some very surprising answers.

THERE’S a reason that TV veterans including Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Tom Gleisner and Scott Cam won Logies last night.

Despite long careers, each are still on top of their games and it’s partly due to their overwhelming positivity and their refusal to accept knock backs as defeats.

Last night after they won their Logies, the stars were asked by news.com.au about their biggest career regrets and their answers were surprising:

KERRI-ANNE KENNERLEY

QUEEN KAK. Picture: AAP

When KAK was about her biggest career regret, she looked to her husband John who was watching on from the side of stage and asked for his opinion.

“You never have regrets, you just move on,” John said.

“If somebody says you’ve finished that, you just go outside and say, ‘Alright, what’s next?’ You don’t spend time regretting.”

And Kerri-Anne couldn’t have agreed more.

“As I said in my speech, the one thing you can be sure of in life is that it will change,” she said.

“Embrace that change or you can get pretty depressed about it and that’s what happens to a lot of people. They can’t embrace the change and if they can’t have the openness to embrace change you can make yourself pretty miserable, so move on.”

TOM GLEISNER

Gleisner got a bit of ribbing from his Have You Been Paying Attention co-stars. Picture: Getty Images

“I’ve genuinely loved everything we’ve tried and that includes radio and television and film and books and a stage show,” Gleisner said to news.com.au as he stood next to Sam Pang and Ed Kavalee.

“I’m sorry, I wish there was something I could say that was a mistake. Some things have been more successful than others but I think we’ve just always loved trying new things.”

But Sam Pang didn’t quite agree with Gleisner’s answer, chipping in with, “That’s fine for Tom to say … but I thought the fishing series was slow,” he joked.

“And the Funky Squad was a bomb. You think to yourself, ‘how do these guys keep getting work?’

AMANDA KELLER

Amanda Keller admits to a few fashion mistakes. Picture: Julie Kiriacoudis

The Living Room presenter does have one big career regret: Her outfits.

“There’s a lot of fashion that I wish hadn’t been captured in,” Keller said.

“I think I was the last of the generation where you could get a job on TV before your were an Olympian or a model or a spokesperson of some kind. I had just been a researcher and then a producer and then on air. So I had no grooming help and I look at some of the things I wore on television and I’m STUNNED I was allowed to be on. I wore ping pong ball earrings, I had hair like a flock of seagulls. The good thing about being so ugly in the eighties is that I can be 109 years old and I’d never look as bad as I did in the eighties.”

JESSICA MARAIS

Marais smoulders on the red carpet. Picture: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

The beautiful star was nominated for her work on The Wrong Girl and Love Child — but from the sounds of it, she won’t be committing to several shows at once in the future.

“I don’t know if it’s a career regret as much as a life regret of not learning to say no and set boundaries at certain points and stand by them,” Marais said about.

“I think I’m learning about that as a human being and as an artist and that’s a valuable lesson, the power of no. It’s not a career regret but a lesson that I probably didn’t learn super early.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Maybe Samuel Johnson will rethink his retirement now? Picture: AAP

He won the Gold Logie for his stunning portrayal of Molly Meldrum but quit acting after the telemovie to focus on raising $10 million for his cancer charity, Love Your Sister.

So what’s his biggest career regret?

“Retiring,” Johnson joked.

“Well at this stage anyway. It’s like retiring the year you win the Brownlow.”

SCOTT CAM

Scotty Cam, out of his usual tradie threads. Picture: Julie Kiriacoudis

The Block host has had his fair share of hits and misses, but maintains he has no career regrets.

“I’ve been in this business of 18 years and I’ve had a few shows that have gone well and a few that have gone bad but they weren’t regrets, they were learning curves,” he said.

“It’s a good game to be in and it’s better than climbing on a roof and swinging a hammer. “

DEBRA LAWRANCE

From Home and Away to Please Like Me. Picture: Richard Dobson

The former Home and Away star picked up a Logie for her role in Please Like Me and the veteran actress also exhibited positivity when reflecting on her career regrets.

“I actually don’t have any,” she said.

“I mean, I’ve missed out on roles that in retrospect that I just wasn’t suitable for, but I was really passionate about them. But when I saw the actress they’d cast you go, ‘Oh idiot, I’ll just get over that one then. You’re not tall and you’re not blue-eyed blah blah.’

“I’ve just come off Celebrity Hells Kitchen, I’ve just done a reality show with Marco Pierre White, so I’m 60 years of age and I’m doing new things! Everything has always been moving forward for me, always. Lovely things over the last 40 years of my career have fallen in my lap so no regrets at all.”

JAMES BLUNT

English crooner James Blunt was in town for the Logies. Picture: Scott Barbour/Getty

He didn’t win a Logie but James Blunt did stop by the media room after his performance on stage at the Logies.

And the popular singer said he has a feeling his biggest career regret is just around the corner.

“I’m about to go on tour with Ed Sheeran for three months, so ask me in three months time because I’ll probably be dead from hangovers,” he said.