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Daily Mail
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Gold Logie nominee Poh Ling Yeow reveals the 'worst' part about attending the exclusive award show: 'Really hard'
Poh Ling Yeow has opened up about the 'worst' part of attending TV's annual night-of-nights. The MasterChef star, 51, who is up for a Gold Logie this year, has said the exclusive awards show isn't always as glamorous as it seems, reported TV Tonight on Saturday. Despite bumping shoulders with some of Australia's biggest television stars, the celebrity cook said she struggles with wearing heels and doing red carpet interviews. The heels are the worst thing and I do find the red carpet really hard,' she said. 'Sometimes the questions are so random. Often they're quite young and they [refer to] trends and things, and I don't know what's going on.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. It comes after Poh revealed Gold Logie nominees are quietly told weeks in advance about their nomination, despite the fanfare of a live announcement. Appearing on The Project last month, the beloved culinary star said she was informed of her Gold Logie nomination in May and had to keep it a secret from everyone. 'Big Gold Logie nomination,' co-host Sarah Harris teased at the time, before asking how Poh found out. 'Ah, well, I got, I found out actually about three weeks ago,' she said. 'So I had to… mum's the word, and it was quite hard to keep it away from, you know, close friends and family. Uh, but I was really shocked.' Poh recalled being pulled aside after filming an episode of Have You Been Paying Attention? by a Network Ten publicist. 'I'd actually just done Have You Been Paying Attention? and a Channel Ten publicist pulled me aside and said, "Oh, just got a little bit of housekeeping to do,"' she said. 'I was kind of milling around with the comedians… and she's like, "Just hang out in the corridor for a bit." The MasterChef star who is up for a Gold Logie this year, has said the exclusive awards show isn't always as glamorous as it seems, reported TV Tonight on Saturday 'She sat me down in the boardroom and said, "So…" I thought she was going to leave or I thought it was about her because I love her. 'And she goes, "Ah, so yeah, you've been nominated for…" and I was just so bamboozled. I couldn't believe it. 'Yeah. I was speechless. I just… yeah. I'm still feeling a little bit odd about it.' When asked if it had sunk in, Poh replied: 'Can't… I can't. It's hard to process.' Her candid admission stunned fans as it's the first time a TV star has publicly revealed Logie nominees are privately informed weeks before the annual 'reveal' to the media. Poh joined the MasterChef judging panel in 2023 and quickly won over audiences with her warmth, humour and no-nonsense approach to food. The news comes just days after Daily Mail Australia revealed Poh has signed on to return for MasterChef 2026, putting an end to recent speculation she was preparing to bow out. A spokesperson for the popular chef flatly denied the claims, revealing: 'There's no truth to the speculation. Poh is loving her time on MasterChef and feels like she's found her place.' It followed a report by New Idea at the time which suggested Poh was considering leaving the series, prompting executives to quietly begin scouting a new judge to join Andy Allen, Sofia Levin and Jean-Christophe Novelli at the judging table. win the first season of MasterChef back in 2009.
Daily Mail
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Poh Ling Yeow drops Logies bombshell as she reveals little-known industry secret about the awards show - after being nominated for the top gong
MasterChef judge Poh Ling Yeow has blown the lid off one of the TV industry's best-kept secrets - revealing that Gold Logie nominees are quietly told weeks in advance, despite the fanfare of a live announcement. Appearing on The Project on Monday night, the beloved culinary star, 51, revealed she was informed of her Gold Logie nomination three weeks ago – and had to keep it a secret from everyone, including her closest friends and family. 'Big Gold Logie nomination,' Sarah Harris teased, before asking how she found out. 'Ah, well, I got, I found out actually about three weeks ago,' she said. 'So I had to… mum's the word, and it was quite hard to keep away from, you know, close friends and family. Uh, but I was really shocked.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Poh recalled being pulled aside after filming an episode of Have You Been Paying Attention? by a Network Ten publicist. 'I'd actually just done Have You Been Paying Attention? and a Channel Ten publicist pulled me aside and said, "Oh, just got a little bit of housekeeping to do"' she explained. 'I was kind of milling around with the comedians – because I'm a bit of a… you know, like hanging out with comedians – and she's like, "Just hang out in the corridor for a bit." 'She sat me down in the boardroom and said, "So…" I thought she was going to leave or I thought it was about her – because I love her. And she goes, "Ah, so yeah, you've been known for…" and I was just so bamboozled. I couldn't believe it.' 'Yeah. I was speechless. I just… yeah. I'm still feeling a little bit odd about it.' When asked if it had sunk in, Poh replied, 'Can't… I can't. It's hard to process.' Her candid admission has stunned fans - as it's the first time a TV star has publicly revealed that Logie nominees are privately informed weeks before the annual 'reveal' to the media. Poh joined the MasterChef judging panel in 2023 and quickly won over audiences with her warmth, humour and no-nonsense approach to food. The news comes just days after Daily Mail Australia revealed that Poh has signed on to return for the MasterChef 2026, putting an end to recent speculation she was preparing to bow out. A spokesperson for the popular chef flatly denied the claims, revealing: 'There's no truth to the speculation. Poh is loving her time on MasterChef and feels like she's found her place.' A spokesperson for the popular chef flatly denied the claims, revealing: 'There's no truth to the speculation. Poh is loving her time on MasterChef and feels like she's found her place.' It follows a report by New Idea earlier this week suggesting Poh was considering leaving the series, prompting executives to quietly begin scouting a new judge to join Andy Allen, Sofia Levin and Jean-Christophe Novelli at the judging table. Among the names floated as a potential replacement? None other than fan favourite Julie Goodwin - the very contestant who beat Poh to win the first season of MasterChef back in 2009.
The Guardian
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Lisa Millar and Poh Ling Yeow among nominees for Gold Logie award
Former ABC News Breakfast host Lisa Millar and chef and presenter Poh Ling Yeow are among this year's nominees for the 65th Gold Logie, announced on Monday. Comedians Hamish Blake and Julia Morris, A Current Affair host Ally Langdon, and presenter Sonia Kruger will also vie for the title of most popular personality on Australian television, along with the longest-serving female actor in an Australian soap, Lynne McGranger, who recently announced her retirement from Home and Away after more than 32 years. Still administered by TV Week magazine, the Logies have historically been an unusual awards event, with a mix of popularly voted awards – which celebrities have always actively campaigned to win – and peer-voted awards. That system was overhauled last year and now the awards in the 'best' categories (formerly called 'most outstanding') are determined by a combined score, 50% of which is peer assessment and audience data supplied by the broadcasters and 50% is by public vote. The Gold Logie, Bert Newton, Graham Kennedy and Ray Martin awards remain solely determined by popular vote. Guy Montgomery, the host of Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee on the ABC, is nominated for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent, alongside Hailey Pinto for Home and Away, Jenny Tian for Taskmaster Australia, Kate Miller-Heidke for The Voice, Kylah Day for Territory, and Sofia Levin for MasterChef Australia. Blake, Morris and Kruger are also nominees in the Bert Newton award for most popular presenter, along with Australian Idol's Ricki-Lee, the ABC's Zan Rowe and one half of former Woodies tennis powerhouse duo Todd Woodbridge, for his coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Australian Open. Langdon is joined by ABC journalists David Speers (Insiders) and Sarah Ferguson (7.30), Michael Usher (7News), Peter Overton (9News) and 60 minutes report Tara Brown, for her 60 Minutes reporting on Belle Gibson, as nominees for the Ray Martin award for most popular news or public affairs presenter. The Netflix series Territory dominates the Silver Logies category for best actor and actress in a drama, with Anna Torv, Michael Dorman, Robert Taylor and Sam Corlett all in the running. Kaitlyn Dever and Alycia Debnam-Carey are Silver Logie nominees for another Netflix series, Apple Cider Vinegar, which also draws inspiration from the Belle Gibson scandal. Apple Cider Vinegar is in the running for best miniseries or telemovie, along with Stan's Critical Incident, Paramount+'s Fake, Binge/Foxtel's How to Make Gravy, Nine's Human Error and the ABC's Plum. Streaming platforms also dominate the best drama category with the ABC's Return to Paradise and The Newsreader the only free-to-air nominees. The network that hosts the Logies, Seven, dominates the best news coverage category, with its reports on Cyclone Alfred, Melbourne protests and the assassination attempt on Donald Trump all nominees, along with the ABC's coverage of scandals in the childcare sector, Nines' Courage & Science report and its 2024 Gold Walkley winning expose on the CFMEU, Building Bad. Voting for nominees opened at 9am on Monday and will continue until 7pm on 1 August. The winners will be announced in Sydney on 3 August.
News.com.au
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
All the 2025 Logie Awards nominations revealed
It's a stacked, nearly all-female list of celebs competing to win the Gold Logie this year, with former winner Hamish Blake the only male in contention for the night's top TV prize. TV presenters All Langdon, Julia Morris, Lisa Millar, Sonia Kruger and Poh Ling Yeow plus veteran Home and Away star Lynne McGranger are competing alongside Blake in the top category. It makes a noticeable change for the Gold Logie nomination, which is usually fairly evenly split between male and female TV stars. Organisers could be hoping stacking the category with women might up the odds of a female winner, after only three winners in the past 15 years have been women (Kruger in 2023, Carrie Bickmore in 2015 and Asher Keddie in 2013). And as you'll see in the video at the top of this story, there were awkward scenes at a Logies event held in Sydney this morning, with Andrew Bucklow in attendance to watch it all unfold. Presenter Tara Rushton announced this year's Gold nominees – but forgot Kruger, who was waiting in the wings to be called to the stage. Rushton had individually invited each nominee to join her on stage, bar McGranger, who she explained couldn't be there. But there was a visible ripple of panic among the other nominees when Rushton asked the assembled press to 'put your hands together for all your Gold Logie nominees' – with Kruger still left awkwardly offstage, waiting to be announced. 'Oh, hold on – Sonia Kruger! I am never going to live this down,' said Rushton, as Kruger finally made her entrance. 'I'm so sorry, Sonee,' Rushton continued. 'That's me done.' Elsewhere at the event, cornered Hamish Blake to ask the obvious question: What will happen if this year's sole male Gold Logie nominee ends up winning the award? Blake, who previously won the award in 2022, admitted he was praying that wouldn't be the case. He told in the video below that it felt like a 'mild stitch-up' to be nominated. 'I'm just going to put it on record: never should someone win it less than I should win it this year. I think in this climate, in this day in age, the only guy getting up to win is the last thing anyone wants to see,' he said. 'I'm very happy to be nominated, a wonderful bunch of ladies I'm with … my god, it would be just a disaster if I won it.' The ultimate winner of the Gold Logie will be determined by public vote and announced at a ceremony held at The Star Sydney on Sunday August 3, broadcast live on Seven. Voting is now open for all awards and will remain open until 7pm AEST Friday 1 August 2025, except for the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter, Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent and the Ray Martin Award for Most Popular News or Public Affairs Reporter which will close 7:30pm AEST Sunday 3 August. Gold Logie votes will stay open until 10:30pm on Logies night. This year's Logie nominees in full: TV WEEK GOLD LOGIE – Most Popular Personality on Australian Television Host and journalist, Ally Langdon Entertainer, broadcaster and comedian, Hamish Blake Presenter and comedian, Julia Morris Journalist and presenter, Lisa Millar Actress, Lynne McGranger Judge and co-host, Poh Ling Yeow Entertainer and presenter, Sonia Kruger Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter Hamish Blake, LEGO Masters Australia, 9Network Julia Morris, I'm A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!, Network 10 Ricki-Lee, Australian Idol, Seven Network Sonia Kruger, The Voice, Dancing With The Stars, Logies Red Carpet Show, Seven Network Todd Woodbridge, Tipping Point Australia, Australian Open, The Olympic Games Paris 2024, Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, 9Network Zan Rowe, Take 5 With Zan Rowe, ABC New Year's Eve, ABC Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent Guy Montgomery, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee, ABC Hailey Pinto, Home and Away, Seven Network Jenny Tian, Taskmaster Australia, Network 10 Kate Miller-Heidke, The Voice, Seven Network Kylah Day, Territory, Netflix Sofia Levin, MasterChef Australia, Network 10 Ally Langdon, A Current Affair, 9Network David Speers, Insiders, ABC Michael Usher, 7NEWS, 7NEWS Spotlight, Seven Network Peter Overton, 9News, 9Network Sarah Ferguson, 7.30, ABC Tara Brown, 60 Minutes, Dangerous Lies: Unmasking Belle Gibson, 9Network TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actor in a Drama Lloyd Griffith, Return To Paradise, ABC Michael Dorman, Territory, Netflix Robert Taylor, Territory, Netflix Sam Corlett, Territory, Netflix Sam Neill, The Twelve, BINGE / FOXTEL Tai Hara, Return To Paradise, ABC TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actress in a Drama Alycia Debnam-Carey, Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix Anna Samson, Return To Paradise, ABC Anna Torv, Territory, Netflix Ayesha Madon, Heartbreak High, Netflix Kaitlyn Dever, Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix Lynne McGranger, Home and Away, Seven Network TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Aaron Chen, Fisk, ABC Ben Miller, Austin, ABC Clancy Brown, Good Cop/Bad Cop, Stan Luke Cook, Good Cop/Bad Cop, Stan Michael Theo, Austin, ABC Patrick Brammall, Colin From Accounts, BINGE / FOXTEL TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Harriet Dyer, Colin From Accounts, BINGE / FOXTEL Jenna Owen, Nugget is Dead: A Christmas Story, Stan Kitty Flanagan, Fisk, ABC Leighton Meester, Good Cop/Bad Cop, Stan Sally Phillips, Austin, ABC Vic Zerbst, Nugget is Dead: A Christmas Story, Stan TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Supporting Actor Ashley Zukerman, Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix Darren Gilshenan, Colin From Accounts, BINGE / FOXTEL Glenn Butcher, Fisk, ABC Mark Coles Smith, Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix Matt Nable, Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix Sam Delich, Territory, Netflix TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Supporting Actress Aisha Dee, Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix Chloé Hayden, Heartbreak High, Netflix Julia Zemiro, Fisk, ABC Marg Downey, The Newsreader, ABC Michelle Lim Davidson, The Newsreader, ABC Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix Best Drama Program Bump, Stan Heartbreak High, Netflix Return To Paradise, ABC Territory, Netflix The Newsreader, ABC The Twelve, BINGE / FOXTEL Best Miniseries or Telemovie Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix Critical Incident, Stan Fake, Paramount+ How To Make Gravy, BINGE / FOXTEL Human Error, 9Network Plum, ABC Best Entertainment Program ABC New Year's Eve, ABC Australian Idol, Seven Network Countdown 50 Years On, ABC Dancing With The Stars, Seven Network The Voice, Seven Network Vision Australia's Carols by Candlelight, 9Network Best Current Affairs Program 60 Minutes, 9Network 7.30, ABC 7NEWS Spotlight, Seven Network A Current Affair, 9Network Australian Story, ABC Four Corners, ABC Best Scripted Comedy Program Austin, ABC Colin From Accounts, BINGE / FOXTEL Fisk, ABC Good Cop/Bad Cop, Stan Melbourne International Comedy Festival, ABC Optics, ABC Best Comedy Entertainment Program Gruen, ABC Hard Quiz, ABC Have You Been Paying Attention?, Network 10 Sam Pang Tonight, Network 10 Thank God You're Here, Network 10 The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, ABC Best Competition Reality Program Alone Australia, SBS Australian Survivor: Brains V Brawn II, Network 10 LEGO Masters Australia, 9Network MasterChef Australia, Network 10 My Kitchen Rules, Seven Network The Block, 9Network Best Structured Reality Program Farmer Wants A Wife, Seven Network Gogglebox Australia, Network 10 Married At First Sight, 9Network Muster Dogs: Collies & Kelpies, ABC Shark Tank Australia, Network 10 The Real Housewives of Sydney, BINGE / FOXTEL Best Lifestyle Program Better Homes and Gardens, Seven Network Do You Want To Live Forever?, 9Network Gardening Australia, ABC Grand Designs Australia, ABC Restoration Australia, ABC Travel Guides, 9Network Best News Coverage or Public Affairs Report Betrayal of Trust, Four Corners, ABC Building Bad, 60 Minutes, 9Network Courage & Science, A Current Affair, 9Network Cyclone Alfred, 7NEWS, Seven Network Melbourne Protests, Sunrise, Seven Network Trump Assassination Attempt, 7NEWS, Seven Network Best Factual or Documentary Program Big Miracles, 9Network Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story, Seven Network Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian, ABC The Assembly, ABC Tsunami: 20 Years On, 9Network Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story, 9Network Best Sports Coverage 2024 AFL Finals Series, Seven Network 2024 State of Origin, 9Network 2025 Australian Open Finals, 9Network Australia v India: Border – Gavaskar Trophy, Kayo Sports / FOXTEL CommBank Matildas V China PR, Network 10 The Olympic Games Paris 2024, 9Network / Stan Sport Best Children's Program Bluey, ABC Ginger and the Vegesaurs, ABC Hard Quiz Kids, ABC Little J & Big Cuz, NITV / ABC Play School, ABC
Evening Standard
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Why Maggie Smith and Joan Plowright weren't in Bafta TV Awards tribute as fans blast 'shameful' omission
Actors who are best known for television are usually honoured at the TV Awards, while stars who are more aligned with film are celebrated at the Film Awards.
