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So who really leaked the Logies this year?

On sale early on Sunday evening, TV Week is very lucky the results didn't go viral...

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It’s a nervous test every year: hoping that the Logie winners won’t leak.

Last week an anonymous radio call declaring winners ultimately proved to be incorrect (they declared Carrie for Gold).

But it appears TV Week themselves was the key culprit this year with Monday’s magazine sitting on retail shelves on early Sunday night, while the red carpet was still underway.

TV Tonight was contacted by a reader who listed 8 correct winners before they had been announced:

Waleed Aly, The Project, Erik Thomson, Jessica Marais, Adam Dovile, The Living Room, Home and Away, and Noni Hazlehurst.

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The edition only names Noni Hazlehurst as a 2016 recipient, but all of them are featured in glossy photoshoots. Blind Freddy could work out they would win. As we’ve seen in the past, it only takes 1 tweet for the results to go viral.

It also raises the question: if the recipients all participated in glam photo shoots, did they all know they would win? I guess it depends if others did similar for earlier editions.

The Hall of Fame inductee usually finds out about a month in advance, with exec producer Brent Williams outlining a number of people are involved in its preparation.

Editor Emma Nolan confirmed, “I’d like to clarify that the talent, with the exception of Noni, weren’t notified that they had won. As per every year, we photographed a lot of stars in Logies type set ups after the nominations announcement. Not just the winners.”

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4 Responses

  1. Back in the day, after the Logies were done, the new issue of the TV Week would it the stores Tuesday instead of Monday, so it would give them time to put all the photos and stories in from Sunday.

    1. I recall the host, most commonly Bert Newton would hold up after the Gold was announced, a poster sized edition of TV Week with the winner on the cover and him announcing the mag was available first thing the next day. They would prepare covers with all 5 nominees winning gold and then just show the actual winner. I also recall the pictures from the night took a week to find themselves into the next issue, but their editors worked fast to get the list of winners into that next day edition.

  2. I remember the old days. I think they got each nominee to pose with the Logie they were nominated for and picked and chose after the event.

  3. Years ago, before TV Week could be edited and published within a day, Bert Newton won the Gold for the first time.
    The next issue of the mag had Bert posing holding his Gold Logie.
    “Fowl” cried the media, asking how could Bert be holding that Logie without knowing he’d won?
    Turned out he was holding a bottle of bubbles, which TV Week photo-shopped out and inserted a shot of the award.

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