Logies nominations 2018: Channel 10 stars snubbed in Gold category

THE nominations for this year’s TV Week Logie Awards are out — and it’s not great news for Network Ten’s star presenters.

TWO of Channel 10’s most high-profile figures have failed to make the cut in this year’s Logies nominations in a surprising snub which is sure to raise a few eyebrows.

Star recruit Lisa Wilkinson and Waleed Aly — who won the Most Popular Presenter award last year — have both been left out of the running for the 2018 awards which will be held on the Gold Coast on July 1.

This year’s Gold Logie nominees are: The Living Room’s Amanda Keller, actors Jessica Marais and Rodger Corser, A Current Affair host Tracey Grimshaw, Family Feud’s Grant Denyer and Love It Or List It presenter Andrew Winter.

Gold Logie nominees Grant Denyer, Tracy Grimshaw, Amanda Keller, Rodger Corser and Jessica Marais. (AAP Image/Darren England)

Winter’s inclusion marks the first time a Foxtel presenter has been nominated in that category.

The Project and its hosts have long been Logies favourites.

Carrie Bickmore won the Gold Logie in 2015, her co-host Waleed Aly followed in her footsteps the following year, and Aly and Peter Helliar were both nominated for it last year — although actor Samuel Johnson took out the prize.

The Project hosts are usually favourites to win at the Logies.

While the show has been nominated for Most Popular Entertainment Program and Bickmore for Most Popular Presenter, the fact that none of its stars has made the cut for Gold Logie will no doubt come as an unpleasant surprise for Ten bosses.

Late last year, Wilkinson sensationally jumped ship from Nine’s Today show after a decade alongside Karl Stefanovic and was quickly snapped up by Ten’s The Project in what was considered to be a major coup for the network.

Certainly, Ten had considered her one of its best chances at winning a Logie this time around. When initial voting opened up, questions were raised about why popular Studio 10 host Sarah Harris — or any of her co-hosts — weren’t even in the running to be nominated in the Most Popular Presenter category.

As TV Week explained to news.com.au, each of the TV networks decide who will be eligible for nominations each year: “Each network works to a set number of entries per category and every year we have programs or talent that do not make the final shortlist.”

In the Most Popular Presenter category each TV network was allowed to nominate 15 people this year that they felt were “most deserving” of that award.

Channel 10 chose to put forward The Project co-hosts Waleed Aly, Carrie Bickmore and Lisa Wilkinson. They also put forward Peter Helliar, who told news.com.au in March that he thought Lisa Wilkinson was a certainty to win the Gold Logie this year.

“I think it’s got Wilkinson written all over it to be honest,” Helliar said.

“I hope Lisa wins it. I think she deserves it and I was genuinely surprised she wasn’t nominated last year [2017].”

Other notable nominees include former Bachelor Matty J, aka Matthew Johnson, who’s up for Most Popular New Talent for his hosting stint on The Living Room, and Sam Frost, who’s nominated in the same category for her role on Home And Away.

Matty J has scored his first Logies nomination. Picture: Justin Lloyd

Live voting for the “Most Popular” categories will reopen on June 25 and will close an hour before the Logie Awards broadcast gets underway on July 1.

AND THE NOMINATIONS ARE ...

TV WEEK GOLD LOGIE — Best Personality On Australian TV

Amanda Keller (The Living Room, Network Ten)

Andrew Winter (Love It Or List It Australia/Selling Houses Australia,

Foxtel — Lifestyle)

Grant Denyer (Family Feud/All Star Family Feud, Network Ten)

Jessica Marais (Love Child, Nine Network; The Wrong Girl, Network Ten)

Rodger Corser (Doctor Doctor, Nine Network)

Tracy Grimshaw (A Current Affair, Nine Network)

MOST POPULAR ACTOR

Aaron Jeffery (Underbelly Files: Chopper, Nine Network)

Erik Thomson (800 Words, Channel 7)

Luke McGregor (Rosehaven, ABC)

Ray Meagher (Home And Away, Channel 7)

Rodger Corser (Doctor Doctor, Nine Network)

MOST POPULAR ACTRESS

Asher Keddie (Offspring, Network Ten)

Celia Pacquola (Rosehaven/Utopia, ABC)

Deborah Mailman (Cleverman, ABC)

Jessica Marais (Love Child, Nine Network; The Wrong Girl, Network Ten)

Julia Morris (House Husbands, Nine Network)

MOST POPULAR PRESENTER

Amanda Keller (The Living Room, Network Ten)

Andrew Winter (Love It Or List It Australia/Selling Houses Australia,

Foxtel — Lifestyle)

Carrie Bickmore (The Project, Network Ten)

Grant Denyer (Family Feud/All Star Family Feud, Network Ten)

Tracy Grimshaw (A Current Affair, Nine Network)

GRAHAM KENNEDY AWARD FOR MOST POPULAR NEW TALENT

Dilruk Jayasinha (CRAM!, Network Ten; Utopia, ABC)

Matty Johnson (The Living Room, Network Ten)

Sam Frost (Home And Away, Channel 7)

Sophia Forrest (Love Child, Nine Network)

Sophie Dillman (Home And Away, Channel 7)

MOST POPULAR DRAMA PROGRAM

Doctor Doctor (Nine Network)

Home And Away (Channel 7)

Love Child (Nine Network)

Offspring (Network Ten)

Wentworth (Foxtel — Showcase)

MOST POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM

Anh’s Brush With Fame (ABC)

Family Feud (Network Ten)

Gogglebox Australia (Foxtel/Network Ten)

Hard Quiz (ABC)

The Project (Network Ten)

MOST POPULAR COMEDY PROGRAM

Have You Been Paying Attention? (Network Ten)

Here Come The Habibs (Nine Network)

Hughesy, We Have A Problem (Network Ten)

Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell (ABC)

True Story With Hamish & Andy (Nine Network)

MOST POPULAR REALITY PROGRAM

I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! (Network Ten)

Married At First Sight (Nine Network)

My Kitchen Rules (Channel 7)

The Block (Nine Network)

Travel Guides (Nine Network)

MOST POPULAR LIFESTYLE PROGRAM

Better Homes And Gardens (Channel 7)

Gardening Australia (ABC)

Selling Houses Australia (Foxtel — Lifestyle)

The Checkout (ABC)

The Living Room (Network Ten)

MOST OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

A Place To Call Home (Foxtel — Showcase)

Doctor Doctor (Nine Network)

Harrow (ABC)

Top Of The Lake: China Girl (Foxtel — BBC First)

Wentworth (Foxtel — Showcase)

MOST OUTSTANDING MINISERIES OR TELEMOVIE

Romper Stomper (Stan)

Safe Harbour (SBS)

Seven Types Of Ambiguity (ABC)

Underbelly Files: Chopper (Nine Network)

Wake In Fright (Network Ten)

MOST OUTSTANDING ACTOR

Damon Herriman (Lance Gowland, Riot, ABC)

Ewen Leslie (Ryan Gallagher, Safe Harbour, SBS)

Hugo Weaving (Alex Klima, Seven Types Of Ambiguity, ABC)

Lachy Hulme (Blake Farron, Romper Stomper, Stan)

Rodger Corser (Hugh Knight, Doctor Doctor, Nine Network)

MOST OUTSTANDING ACTRESS

Elisabeth Moss (Robin Griffin, Top Of The Lake: China Girl, Foxtel — BBC First)

Kate Atkinson (Vera Bennett, Wentworth, Foxtel — Showcase)

Kate Box (Marg McCann, Riot, ABC)

Leeanna Walsman (Bree Gallagher, Safe Harbour, SBS)

Pamela Rabe (Joan Ferguson, Wentworth, Foxtel — Showcase)

MOST OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR

Aaron Pedersen (Frank Gibbs, A Place To Call Home, Foxtel — Showcase)

Alex Dimitriades (Doc Tydon, Wake In Fright, Network Ten)

Anthony Hayes (Mitch, Seven Types Of Ambiguity, ABC)

David Wenham (Jago Zoric, Romper Stomper, Stan)

Hazem Shammas (Ismail Al-Bayati, Safe Harbour, SBS)

MOST OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Celia Ireland (Liz Birdsworth, Wentworth, Foxtel — Showcase)

Elsa Cocquerel (Michelle, Wolf Creek, Stan)

Jacqueline McKenzie (Gabe Jordan, Romper Stomper, Stan)

Jenni Baird (Regina Standish, A Place To Call Home, Foxtel — Showcase)

Nicole Chamoun (Zahra Al-Bayati, Safe Harbour, SBS)

MOST OUTSTANDING CHILDREN’S PROGRAM

Crash The Bash (Foxtel — Nickelodeon)

Get Arty (Channel 7)

Grace Beside Me (NITV)

Little J & Big Cuz (NITV)

Mustangs FC (ABC ME)

MOST OUTSTANDING SPORTS COVERAGE

2017 AFL Grand Final (Channel 7)

2017 Australian Open Men’s Final (Channel 7)

Bathurst 1000 (Network Ten)

Jeff Horn v Manny Pacquiao (Foxtel — MAIN EVENT)

The 2017/2018 Ashes (Nine Network)

MOST OUTSTANDING NEWS COVERAGE OR PUBLIC AFFAIRS REPORT

“Don Burke Special” (A Current Affair, Nine Network)

“Escape From Salt Creek” (60 Minutes, Nine Network)

“Haiti Uncovered” (Sunday Night, Channel 7)

“Pumped” (Four Corners, ABC)

“The Siege” (Four Corners, ABC)

MOST OUTSTANDING FACTUAL OR DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM

Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar (Channel 7)

Struggle Street (SBS)

The Queen & Zak Grieve (Foxtel — Crime + Investigation)

War On Waste (ABC)

You Can’t Ask That (ABC)