Lisa Wilkinson’s Logies speech remains available on social media

Lisa Wilkinson’s problematic Logies speech remains readily available online despite The Project co-host’s remarks being scolded by an ACT Supreme Court judge.

Nine has removed the video of the Logies speech by Lisa Wilkinson from all its platforms. Picture: Channel 9

Lisa Wilkinson’s problematic Logies speech remains readily available online despite The Project co-host’s remarks being scolded by an ACT Supreme Court judge.

The three-minute speech given by Wilkinson at last week’s event on the Gold Coast remains uploaded on multiple social media sites including Google-owned YouTube, and Twitter.

One YouTube video showing Wilkinson’s speech in full has already been viewed more than 110,000 times since it was posted to the site, but despite this Google would not comment on why the content was still able to be viewed on its platforms.

Twitter was also contacted for comment but did not respond.

It’s understood that Nine, the network that televised The Project co-host’s speech during its live broadcast of the Logies, was unaware Wilkinson was a witness in the upcoming rape trial involving former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann, or that the presenter had been spoken to by the ACT’s Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold, four days before the event and warned about saying anything relating to the rape trial.

Nine has since removed the video of the speech from all its platforms. “The Logies is a live broadcast, with winners determined independently of the Nine Network, and therefore we do not know in advance of the content of any potential award acceptance speech,” a Nine spokesman said.

The Ten network was asked whether it informed Nine that Wilkinson was a witness in the upcoming rape trial, and that the ACT DPP had warned her about giving a Logies speech before the event was held. A Ten spokesperson declined to comment.

Mr Lehrmann has been accused of sexually assaulting former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins inside Canberra’s Parliament House in 2019.

Mr Lehrmann’s legal team last year said he “absolutely and equivocally denies any form of sexual activity took place”.

In the ACT Supreme Court last week, in the days following Wilkinson’s speech, ACT judge Lucy McCallum said: “The publicity this week has focused sharply on the very fact that was being overlooked, which was that a man is facing trial for a serious offence, and he’s entitled to the presumption of innocence.”