Waleed Aly takes out the Gold Logie on a successful night for Ten and the ABC
Host of Channel Ten's The Project Waleed Aly has picked up his first Gold Logie as the most popular person on TV, becoming the first non-white person to pick up the award in the 58-year history of the ceremony.
Host of Channel Ten’s The Project Waleed Aly has picked up his first Gold Logie as the most popular person on TV, becoming the first non-white person to pick up the award in the 58-year history of the ceremony.
Ten enjoyed a successful night with Aly winning the Logie for Best Presenter, while its coverage of the Big Bash League, The Project, Family Feud, Gogglebox and The Living Room all scooped best show awards in their categories.
Aly said in his acceptance speech: “Do not adjust your sets, there’s nothing wrong with the picture. This is happening. Finally a male presenter on commercial TV has won the Gold Logie.”
The TV WEEK Gold Logie goes to… Waleed Aly!!! Congratulations #waleedaly, so very deserving! #tvweeklogies pic.twitter.com/DuYyE3R7gL
— #TVWEEKmag (@TVWEEKmag) May 8, 2016
He beat co-host and last year’s winner Carrie Bickmore, Nine’s Scott Cam, SBS newsreader Lee Lin Chin, ABC actress Essie Davis and Ten’s Grant Denyer to the top award, confounding some critics along the way.
Congratulations to Waleed, as a newsreader I respect the hell out of you. As a narcissist I will bathe in your blood.
— Lee Lin Chin (@LeeLinChinSBS) May 8, 2016
The diminutive Family Feud host Grant Denyer quipped he was the first person to pick up a “life-sized” Logie when he went on stage to accept the quiz show’s gong in the Best Entertainment Program category.
The Big Bash League was recognised for Best Sporting Coverage and The Living Room scooped the Best Lifestyle Program, while Gogglebox, a joint production with the Lifestyle Channel, was named Best Factual Program just a year after going on air.
The Project won Best News Panel or Current Affairs show.
Advertising panel show Gruen picked up the Most Outstanding Entertainment Program with panelist TOdd Sampson picking up the award and calling up fellow regular and Network Ten executive Russel Howcroft to accept it with him.
thank you again loyal #gruen fans. we make the show because you love watching it. #TVWEEKLogies pic.twitter.com/aVrzqPx20M
— todd sampson (@toddsampsonOz) May 8, 2016
Other awards for the ABC included Deborah Mailman winning Most Oustanding Actress for her role in Redfern Now, Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell winning Most Outstanding Comedy while comedian Tim Minchin picked up the gong for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the network’s The Secret River which also won Most Outstanding Mini-series.
The Killing Season, Sarah Ferguson’s documentary about the implosion of the Labor party in the Rudd-Gillard years, won Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report, and the Most Outstanding Drama Series was Glitch. Kid’s show Ready For This won the Best Children’s Program.
Erik Thomson picked up the Silver Logie for Best Actor for his role in Seven’s 800 Words, while Seven also enjoyed success with Better Homes and Gardens’ Adam Dovile winning Best New Talent, and Home and Away was named Best Drama.
Seven News’ coverage of the Parramatta Shooting was named Most Outstanding News Coverage.
Nine’s The Block won Best Reality Show while Jessica Marais won the Best Actress award for her role in Love Child and The Footy Show was Best Sports Program.
Actress Noni Hazelhurst became just the second woman to be inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame.
As well as Gogglebox, Foxtel also saw joy with Celia Ireland winning the Best Supporting Actress gong for her role in Wentworth.
SBS was recognised with Alex Dimitriades winning Most Otstanding Actor for his lead role in The Principal.
Alex Hayes
Tuned it at one stage and thought Noni Hazelhurst must have died.
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Noni’s completely gone. She’s living in full-on celebrity fairyland.
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Non- white?
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Well deserved Waleed. I get it. But the Lee Lin thing….seriously how did that happen….voters on weed?
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Noni wants a good news channel? That will fail just like the Good News newspaper did three(?) decades ago. Surely she remembers that?
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But she was in Playschool!
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Yes I thought the same thing too Ted!
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Only Kim Jong-Un is more protected from scrutiny or criticism than Waleed Aly.
In fact Kim may even be more vulnerable to criticism.
Aly can trash Australia and Australians (regularly), call everyone a racist, islamophobe and xenophobe but if anyone dares to call him on it, they are guess what? Racist, islamophobe and xenophobe. The opposite of a virtuous circle.
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