If you didn't stay up past midnight to watch who won the Gold Logie, well, we don't blame you. In maybe the longest ceremony ever, the aired on Channel Seven on Sunday night, with host taking out the top gong. Larry's Gold Logie campaign has been filled with laughs and promises (including a pledge to get the initials of everyone else up for the Gold Logie on his butt.
.. more on that soon) and his speech was well worth waiting for as he thanked his fellow TV icons, his wife Sylvie, and poked fun at the "arseholes" in the industry.
Saying that his dad told him when he started out in TV to "just be nice to everyone", Larry quipped, "Dad, I’m trying but there’s so many arseholes in this business. Like, so many..
." But he had a lot of love to share for the business, saying he loved being in and on TV and never wanted to do anything else. "Whether it's sitting on The Morning Show couch interviewing Lindy Klim, who has invented a new product - a face mask for vulvas; or a 150kg truck driver who has won on The Price Is Right dry humping me; or being the most axed man in television," he said.
A lot of Aussies thought the win was very well-deserved for the TV veteran who has been across our screens for 40 years. "I thought the Logies last night was one of the best in years. And very happy Larry one Gold," one person said on X.
"What a great acceptance speech.. one of the best I can remember.
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congratulations," another person said. "Congrats Larry so well deserved. You are an Aussi.