Gone are the days when network advertisers went from kiosk to kiosk buying all the TV Week copies they could find and then taking them back to the office to take out the voting coupons and fill them out. by hand. These days you need to register your phone number before you can vote online; Failing to buy a battery of burner phones, hacking the vote has become almost impossible.
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That’s how Ten’s advertising team led me to an agenda full of interviews in the last days of the Logies race. Voting in the popular categories is open until the broadcast begins on Sunday at 7pm, so the latest appearance on the media and on social media could help.
When I arrive, our photographer escapes. Leong is the dream of a fashion designer, always ready to dress up. Along with the warmth and empathy she projects on the screen, and the tendency to tear when contestants share her gastronomic “journeys,” has helped her make her stand out among the three judges who took over when Matt Preston, George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan left. in 2019.
He will be wearing a vintage Collette Dinnigan on Sunday, but for this shoot he has opted for “ox-blood patent leather, because why not.”
It might be useful to drink red wine, I imagine.
“You just got a Chux and you’re fine. So for long sessions and unpredictable nights, or, I guess, working in my office, that would be very useful for a quick clean up.”
With fellow judges / hosts Jock Zonfrillo (left) and Andy Allen. Credit: Channel 10
Given the variety of designer clothing that goes into the program and the large amount of food that the job requires, splashes should be a real occupational hazard. What’s the secret to avoiding an expensive mess?
“Small bites.”
There is a blackboard in the closet department, he reveals, with the names of the three hosts, and a count.
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“It starts at the beginning of the season and you get one point for every splash, and whoever ends up with more points at the end of the season has to cook for the costume department,” he says. “It’s almost always Andy, but we all have our days off. There was a recent episode where we were breaking crab and there was only butchery.”
Win or lose, Sunday night could be messy: “Isn’t it a tradition that you’re still drunk if you press the next day?” she asks, but she is determined not to get too far ahead.
“I know it sounds cliché to say it’s a thrill just to be nominated, but I’ve been doing it for half a second compared to some amazing people who have been stuck with it for decades,” he says. “It was very unexpected, it’s an amazing class of people to associate with and it’s an emotion.”