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Grant Denyer wins 2018 Gold Logie

Gold Logie winner attributes his surprise win to "people power" and a show that rescued his career.

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Grant Denyer has won the 2018 Logie Award.

“Oh my god I won!” he declared.

“The power of people has been pretty extraordinary this week!”

“Tom Gleeson …thanks for the Hard Chat mate I appreciate it,” he said acknowledging the support from The Weekly presenter.

Denyer spoke emotionally about families watching Family Feud and how it rescued him at his darkest hour. “It gave me my mojo back… allowed me to rebuild myself,” he said fighting back tears. “Family Feud thank you so much you saved me.”

Thanking TEN & FremantleMedia he described it as “the highlight of my life.”

Denyer defeated favourites including Tracy Grimshaw and Amanda Keller.

But the win comes despite the show being axed for low ratings.

The award was presented by 2017 winner Sam Johnson.

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    1. That’s never going to happen – it would be like having the voting tallies for the Oscars, the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs or the Grammys released (even though they’re industry based and the majority of the Logies are based on popular votes). While it would be interesting to have this info, it really is never going to happen…

  2. There’ll be no stopping Tom now and I wouldn’t be surprised if his motorised cup gets a makeover. I’ve never watched FF but did watch Hard Chat where Grant’s attitude was like sitting in a Dentists chair and then being told “No Cavities”. He quickly got into the spirit of the interview which was a barb aimed at the Logies.

  3. People are questioning the legitimacy of the Logies after Denyer’s win? Hello, the Logies have been a joke since the day Scott Cam won for writing on a blackboard neatly.

    2. I think the Logies tells you everything you need to know about the current state of Australia’s TV and entertainment industry and it’s available talent who have not made it overseas, the show is certainly suitable if you suffer from insomnia.

  4. A Current Affair tonight:

    ‘How dodgy comedians are robbing hard-working Australian women of their gold Logies. Also tonight: an advert masquerading as news content’.

    Denyer, to be fair didn’t have much in the way of competition if Tracy Grimshaw was the favourite pre-event.

  5. I think we all agree that Australia needs a Logies refresh to present a show in a higher class like the Oscars and Academy Awards. David, I’m sure you are writing a piece at the moment however one of your open letters would be an insightful read to bring some legitimacy to the Logies.

    1. Couple of things – the Oscars are the Academy Awards, and they are for film not TV. That aside I have to disagree – I like that the Logies are trashy. The AACTAs are trying very hard to be classy and highbrow, so that corner’s covered I think.

  6. You have to wonder how relevant the ratings boxes are…low numbers for the show….but ‘the survey said’ …Logies numbers…that this young man is way more watched than ratings lead one to believe….And I dont really think it had all that much to with Tom Gleeson…

  7. No matter what anyone thinks of how Grant won surely you can’t begrudge him after seeing how excited and thankful he was. The biggest surprise for me was how different Bec Maddern looked. I would never have recognized her.

  9. Congrats to Grant. He does a great job on Family Feud and I for one will miss the show. You can tell how much it meant to him and his speech was just beautiful and just came out what was in his head.

    People will always complain about winners but I think he deserved to win.

    1. A logie award is now as meaningful as the many pointless live crosses that infest FTA news bulletins. Tom Gleeson’s point proven doubt.

    2. As long as both get as dirty as Oscar and Emmy campaigns where at times they turn into dirt slinging matches that some politicians would cringe at, it’s not that bad (and those are industry voted).

  11. Grant had a bit of the perfect storm. Not much competition (well, noone more worthy than him), the notoriety from a recently axed show, and Tom Gleeson’s tongue-in-cheek campaign.

    But most importantly, he is just an all-round nice guy, who works in areas that don’t provoke controversy (and therefore he doesn’t polarise on the basis of his opinions). I am glad to see him win, and he is to be congratulated for a heartfelt, genuine speech that eschewed political grandstanding. Well done, Grant.

    1. You hit the nail right on the head there, I think.

      It’ll be easy to argue that Tom Gleeson’s comedy/ironic/cynical/honest campaign pushed Grant over the line (& I see that’s already started). But fan or not, Grant seems to be a nice honest guy who always puts 110% into whatever he’s doing, and he’s got a long, successful, & popular enough pedigree now that deserved it at least as much as anyone else nominated.

      I’m not a great fan – find him a bit annoying, to be honest – but goodonya, Grant 😉

  12. Great to see him win, but I’m not sure Grant (or TV Week) realise the whole point of Tom’s campaign was to highlight the irony / destroy any credibility the logies had left by awarding the main award for someone with an axed show…

    1. To be fair the show has only recently been axed. He will still be on TV and the Gold Logie is about the most popular not about the show they were/are seen on. He made a moving speech and unrehearsed at that.

      1. Agree, totally! He isn’t the first nor the last to be awarded after a show is cancelled. Happens at the Emmy’s a lot. And yes he’s been on screen 6 nights a week for the past 15 months since the last Logies. It was a very affecting speech. I thought it was a great ending to a pretty shambolic night, but that’s the Logies. Always has been, always will be.

  13. He won because of a campaign, not because of his popularity or his show. Having said that, he has been a good host of Family Feud. I’m just not a fan of these ridiculous, embarrassingly desperate marketing/trolling campaigns.

    1. How is it any different to Scott Cam or Karl Stefanovic winning?

      Channel Nine (and Seven) spam the ads and push their Logie nominees.

      Yeah it’s a joke, but the Logies have been for sometime, which is what Tom Gleeson was trying to highlight. It’s a meaningless award.

  15. Ch 9 pushed hard for a Tracy win (pretty much campaigning for her during every ad break) so to see it blow up in their face by Tom Glleeson’s troll campaign is satisfying.

    1. How do you know it blew up in their face, maybe she was never a contender, maybe she came 3rd and if so then it blew up in the face of the person who came 2nd. Such nasty comments like this really need to be well considered before such hatred is spoken!

      1. Ah, a call for civility in the face of some imagined “hatred”. As I mentioned in a comment the other day: to the Right, ‘civility’ means ‘not disagreeing with them’, & ‘hatred’ means ‘anything that bothers them’.

        Not that anythng hateful was really said here, but I guess the Uptight Right has got to manufacture their outrage out of whatever scraps of schadenfreude they can find…

        (And it seems like tactics are crossing the Pacific in only a few days now, when it used to take a week or two at least…)

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