2024 Logies awards live: Winners, wild moments and Sam Pang’s best jokes
Gold Logie winner Larry Emdur delivered a hilarious speech – and vowed to make good on a wild pledge he’d made about his win.
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The 2024 Logies were held at the Star in Sydney on Sunday night, with host Sam Pang returning for a second year – and roasting all the celebs in the room.
Before that, the stars wowed on the red carpet with Carrie Bickmore and Kate Ritchie among the best-dressed.
But the night belonged to Larry Emdur who won the coveted Gold Logie.
You can check out all the Logie winners here.
And here’s the highlights from the night:
Larry wins the Gold
Larry Emdur took out the Gold Logie for 2024, his second win of the night – and a big Logies for someone who’s been on Australian screens for almost 40 years but has never had much Logies love in the past.
But here’s the awkward bit. Emdur was so sure he wouldn’t win that he made quite the public pledge to news.com.au last week.
“S**t. I did say, I was so convinced that I wasn’t going to win this that I said that if I did win it, I would have all the nominees’ initials tattooed on my arse live tomorrow morning,” he said, before addressing his wife: “Sorry, Sylvie, I know we had some fancy hotel planned but looks like I’ll be doing squats all night.”
Speaking to news.com.au’s Andrew Bucklow earlier in the night, after winning the Silver Logie for Most Popular Presenter tonight, Emdur had confirmed he’d still drop trou’ if he were to win Gold.
“I’m not getting my arse out for silver … although there are plenty of people in TV who would,” he joked.
Bucklow also asked where exactly on Emdur’s butt the tattoo would be going (frankly, investigative journalism worthy of its own category at next year’s Walkleys).
“I haven’t given it that much thought. I’ve got to go up to my hotel room and let my wife decide,” he said.
Emdur absolutely nailed his speech, delivered a few minutes before midnight, making many a tongue-in-cheek joke about his 40 years in the industry without going what should be known after last year as “full Kruger.”
He said he had so many highlights from his time on The Morning Show – like “interviewing Lindy Klim on her new product, a face mask for vulvas.”
He shared some advice his father had given him when he started out in the industry: Just be nice to everyone. His response? “Dad, I’m trying but there’s so many arseholes in this business. Like, so many...”
And he gave a shout-out to his two adult children, who he noted wouldn’t be watching because they “haven’t watched free-to-air TV in about 15 years.”
Now, all eyes will be on Monday’s episode of The Morning Show, where we’ll see if Emdur really will live up to his tattoo promise.
Emdur’s wife Sylvie told news.com.au’s Bucklow that she was “super proud” of her husband, and confessed that he already had a tattoo on one bum cheek (again, we need a Walkleys special category for this on-the-ground celebrity arse reportage) so she’d like him to get the other one tattooed to even the score.
Kate Langbroek’s very awkward moment
Langbroek took to the stage to present an award alongside comedian, and husband of Succession star Sarah Snook, Dave Lawson.
“Dave Lawson. I didn’t think you’d agree to do this because I didn’t think you liked strong women,” she announced.
Those in the audience seemed unsure how to take the line.
“I’m very happy here, Kate. Thank you for that,” Lawson said, appearing just as confused as those in the audience.
We were lost too: A joke that fell flat, or is there beef between these two?
Thankfully, news.com.au’s Bucklow is on the case, and asked Lawson what it was all about shortly after he’d left the stage.
“I think she was talking about me being married to Sarah Snook, it was a reference to that,” Lawson said.
“I didn’t know how to respond to that. I have no problem being near strong women! More strong women around me please.”
The night wears on, the wheels fall off
At about the 11.30pm mark each year (half an hour past the scheduled end time, with several awards still to come), you can hear the celeb audience getting restless and everything starts feeling a little... chaotic.
Presenters of the Best Drama award Celia Pacquola announced that she was there to present the Best Actor award, before realising she’d been fed the wrong award on the autocue. “Someone at Channel Seven has F**KED ME,” she bellowed, as the producers quickly cut to the nominated shows.
Shortly afterwards, Sam Pang returned to the stage to announce that the Gold Logie winner would be revealed... after the next commercial break. The groans from the audience, four hours and 15 minutes after the ceremony began, were clearly audible to those at home.
Sam Pang roasts commercial networks
Earlier – much, much, earlier – Pang opened by roasting Seven – the network the Logies is airing on – about their recent scandals. “I’m just letting you all know I’m going to say whatever I want tonight. I stand before you safe in the knowledge that whatever I say, this network will defend me in court. And with their impeccable record in defamation cases over the last 12 months I reckon I’ll be fine,” he said.
“Full disclosure: I’m not getting paid by Channel Seven tonight. Instead, for the next 12 months, they’re paying my rent. Which is handy as they’ll know what address to send the Thai masseuse to.”
Network Ten also copped a roasting: Pang said they’d brought back Deal Or No Deal, “a show where contestants get to open a briefcase and try to guess how much money the network is losing each week.”
As for Channel Nine? “All good, no notes. Carry on,” he deadpanned.
Perhaps the biggest laugh came with from zinger: “Reality shows continue to thrive. One of the biggest shows sees contestants thrown together, isolated and willingly eating testicles and sometimes anus. That’s right, Married At First Sight continues to go from strength to strength …”
And he namechecked The Voice’s new judgesAdam Lambert, “who you’d know from Queen,” and LeAnn Rimes, “who you’d know from Googling, ‘Who is LeAnn Rimes?’”
And the Gold Logie nominees had to grin and bear it as Pang picked them off one-by-one. Gesturing around the room, he told ABC star Tony Armstrong “this is what an audience looks like.”
He said he was surprised to see Andy Lee’s name on the Gold nominations list – “because I didn’t know Hamish had died.”
And he noted that a gold Logie win would be well-deserved for Robert Irwin, after his “long, hard eight months in the industry.”
Pang burns the year’s biggest flops
After the actual In Memoriam, Pang took to the stage to deliver a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the shows that flopped in the past year. Ten’s short-lived Gladiators copped an especially detailed roasting, Pang calling it “the ultimate test of speed and agility. Viewers had just seconds to change the channel.”
“The show is jam-packed with personal trainers who proved that they were just as annoying at 7.30pm as they are at 7.30am,” he said.
Some jokes about SAS Australia saw the show’s tough-talking trainer Ant Middleton stand up in the audience in mock-anger. Pang thought on his feet, telling 5ft 8 Middleton: “Stand up.”
Co-stars step out as a couple
Kitty Flanagan won the night’s first award, Best Lead Actress in a Comedy, before Home and Away co-stars James Stewart and Ada Nicodemou – making their Logies debut as a real-life couple – walked on stage hand-in-hand to present the award for Best Entertainment Program to The Voice Australia. Best Children’s Program went to – what else – the global juggernaut that is Bluey.
Winner’s jab at Seven
There was perhaps a somewhat surprising winner of the Best News Coverage or Public Affairs Report award: It went to Nine’s 60 Minutes for the expose Ben Roberts-Smith: The Truth. Former soldier Roberts-Smith had sued Nine publications for defamation, with assistance from a legal team hired by his employer, Seven, in a bitter court battle that made national headlines for months.
So even 60 Minutes host Tom Steinfort couldn’t quite believe he was taking the stage – on Seven – to accept the award for their reporting.
“We definitely weren’t expecting this, given Ben Roberts-Smith’s employment history,” he said.
Young winner’s emotional speech
15-year-old actor Felix Cameron won the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent for his work on Netflix’s Boy Swallows Universe. He gave a heartfelt, eloquent speech, but stopped when tears suddenly flowed the moment he mentioned his mum and dad.
He collected himself to finish the speech by thanking his dramaturge for the project: “She had a saying, that we were climbing a mountain. She never ever clarified whether it was Everest or the Dandenongs, but I think we got there.” An early contender for night’s best speech.
The Hall of Fame award goes to …
Rebecca Gibney. The Kiwi actress is truly an honorary Aussie by this point, starring in numerous award-winning shows across several decades. Fellow actress Claudia Karvan (sporting a new look) was among those who paid tribute to Gibney, a multiple Logie-winner.
But it was Gibney’s son Zach who brought her to tears, giving a stirring speech paying tribute to his mum’s incredible acting career – and saying that for him, above all she’d be the best mum in the world. The camera cut to Gibney in the audience, hands shaking, tears flowing, visibly overwhelmed.
A stirring Farnsie tribute
Last year’s documentary John Farnham: Finding the Voice is the highest-grossing Australian documentary of all time, and is nominated for an award tonight. As good a reason as any to pay tribute to the Aussie music legend, still recovering from cancer treatment. Guy Sebastian performed a faithful take on the Farnsie classic Burn For You before Jessica Mauboy raised the roof with the iconic You’re The Voice. “We love you John,” they said as the performance ended.
Raygun phones home
Pang cut to a video message from the woman-of-last-week, Olympic breakdancing attempter Raygun, who offered these words of wisdom to tonight’s winners: “Please feel free to pull out of my signature moves in celebration. Have fun and look after each other.” Truly the people’s princess.
Meanwhile, earlier this week, Pang finally confirmed a wild rumour about a Logies afterparty he attended last year.
As Mick Molloy had claimed on radio post-Logies, Pang really did end up in Daryl Somers’ hotel suite after the Logies, kicking on until the early hours of the morning.
“Daryl, I don’t think he would mind me telling you, he invited me up to his hotel room after the show for a celebratory glass of champagne.
“It was a big thrill,” Pang said. “I grew up watching Daryl Somers, so for him to toast the night and say ‘well done’ was a big moment.”
Originally published as 2024 Logies awards live: Winners, wild moments and Sam Pang’s best jokes
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