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Sunrise, Morning Show hosts to skip Logies.

Samantha Armytage, David Koch, Kylie Gillies & Larry Emdur amongst Seven personalities sending apologies.

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Samantha Armytage, David Koch, Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur are amongst Seven personalities who won’t be attending the Logies this year.

News Corp reports Seven is sending a trimmed-down stable of stars to the Gold Coast, largely due to the increased costs involved.

“The change of location, to the Gold Coast from Melbourne, has made life difficult,” a spokeswoman said.

The team from The Daily Edition and many of Seven News faces will also not attend. Sunrise first began non-attendance back in 2016 when it could not stage a morning broadcast at Crown.Edwina Bartholemew and Sam Mac will be attending for showbiz reports.

Seven views the event as a boon for Nine and prefers to get behind the AACTA Awards which it broadcasts in December.

The cost of attending will also impact other networks with many expected to send nominees and select other talent to the Queensland event.

This year there have been reports of a $1000 bounty subsidy for each star who attends.

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  1. What’s wring with driving there? I would love to see them fanging it on the new sections and see them screaming at the speed cameras at Nambucca Heads and Urunga. It would certainly make entertaining TV.

  2. Wow, I would have thought they would have jumped on the excuse to come to the warmish Gold Coast (it has been a bit chilly here lately) as opposed to going down to freezing Melbourne. It has been a bit cooler here but nowhere near as cold as Melbourne & Sydney.

    1. And Sydney flies Robert Ovadia, Chris Reason and others to Melbourne, Adelaide and elsewhere at the drop of a hat to report on news that’s being covered nationally by local reporters, e.g. George Pell at court.

  4. They can jet off to the United States for a tour, they can fly to Fiji for a wedding and travel around Australia. But the Gold Coast has made “life difficult”

    1. Usually the US and other trips are subsidised substantially by tourism organisations from that country, including Qantas and/or Virgin who piggyback off the trips for increases in tourist demand. It appears that the $1000 they get per star is just not cutting it for the expenditure required for a GC visit.

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