Logies 2026 live updates: Robert Irwin hosts as Deborah Mailman honoured and Gold Logie race heats up

The “elders of the business” (their words not mine) are up presenting an award.

They can’t see, apparently, so Robert Irwin is up to help...and no one seems to know what is happening.

The wheels are falling off.

They are presenting Best Lifestyle Program

• Getaway, 9Network
• Grand Designs Australia, ABC
• Love It Or List It Australia, Binge / Foxtel
• Selling Houses Australia, Binge / Foxtel
• The Dog House Australia, Network 10
• Travel Guides, 9Network

Another win for Goolagong!

Lila just won for playing Evonne Goolagong Cawley, and now the show has won, too.

Wayne Blair and Luke Caroll are up on stage with “the Evonnes” and the producer, as well as Lila and little Eloise, who can we just say stole the show when she was presenting.

This is a great win.

Shane Jacobson is talking about “a bunch of cuts...” HAHAHA!

That might be the best line of the night so far.

The nominees are:

• Goolagong, ABC
• Homebodies, SBS
• Mix Tape, Binge / Foxtel
• The Family Next Door, ABC
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Prime Video
• The Survivors, Netflix

Lila played Yvonne Goolagong in the telemovie - and she was terrific.

She is also nominated for Best Lead Actress In A Drama.

“I feel incredibly honoured to have received this,” she said.

Robert Irwin might too nice a young man to go too hard in his opening monologue, the ceremony’ producers left that up to comedian Urzila Carlson and presenter Guy Montgomery.

The pair were a sharp presence on stage as they fully embraced their roles as roasters-in-chief, taking aim at Australia’s increasingly heated immigration debate (“we find ourselves in a united country that celebrates immigration in all its various forms”) before a sarcastically delivered assessment of the TV industry.

“Tonight is about celebrating the thriving industry of broadcast television, an industry in rude health, while tech companies, social media platforms and streaming platforms owned by oligarchs continue to lose the battle for our attention and advertising dollars,” Montgomery jibed.

“Terrestrial television, hold steady, stand above the parapet, secure in the knowledge nothing can take this empire down!”

Jokes at Stefanovic’s expense was not about to be confined to the opening monologue. Carlson quipped, “Is it just me or do you think Karl Stefanovic has not been the same since he got the Covid vaccine?”.

But a confused Charlie Pickering could be seen on camera reacting with the words “What did I do?!” when he was lumped in with Stefanovic and the also absent Kyle Sandilands after it was suggested on stage that he change the spelling of his first name with a K so he could “round out the KKK of true blue Aussie blokes, good on you, we love you, Aussie blokes”.

Pickering may have forgotten – or perhaps prefers to forget – the incident earlier this year when he engaged with well-known far-right agitator Avi Yemini when he described as “problematic” the hiring of former Australian of the Year Grace Tame to co-host a podcast about autism. He later claimed he had been ambushed.

They are presenting The Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent.

They appear to have swapped roles.

The nominees are:

• Andrea Lam, The Piano, ABC
• Eloise Hart, Goolagong and Mystery Road: Origin, ABC
• Lila McGuire, Goolagong, ABC
• Rowan Witt, Ghosts Australia, Paramount+
• Stuart Broad, The Ashes 2025-26, Seven Network
• Tamala, Ghosts Australia, Paramount+

This is her second win for this award.

Ally took out the inaugural Ray Martin award last year - and shes up for Gold later this evening.

“This month I have been at Channel Nine for 25 years,” she says.

“I love coming to work and doing a job I genuinely love with extraordinary people who really, really care.”

Onya, Ally! Keep chasing down those dodgy builders!

And the nominees are:

• Ally Langdon, A Current Affair, The Great Debate and Election 2025: Australia Decides, 9Network
• David Speers, Australia Votes 2025: Election Night Live and Insiders, ABC
• Karl Stefanovic, Today, 9Network
• Michael Usher, 7NEWS and 7NEWS Spotlight, Seven Network
• Sarah Abo, Today, 9Network
• Sarah Ferguson, 7.30 and Australia Votes 2025: Election Night Live, ABC

Robert Irwin has taken out Most Popular Presenter award.

It’s his first ever Logie.

Perhaps the first of several?

“First of all, what an incredible show to be a part of. I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! That was like the greatest three years of my entire life,” he said.

“I want to dedicate this to my family, to the people who back me every single day. I’m a wildlife conservationist first and foremost, my heart beats Australia Zoo and I bleed khaki.

“My family are in North Queensland right now on a satellite connection, watching the Logies while on a crocodile research expedition. So, guys, thank you for watching.

“This is for not only my family, my mum, my sister, Chandler, Grace, all of you guys. This is for my Australia Zoo family. For everybody, 500 strong back at home, who back me.

“What an honour it is for all of us together to work toward a mission that my dad started. That is the honour of my lifetime, and I never thought I’d get to bring that mission to this stage, but here we are, and thank you, thank you, thank you.”

Eloise is so tiny and sweet - I love her!

She is nominated in the Graham Kennedy award tonight.

They are presenting the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter

• Amanda Keller, The Piano, ABC
• Hamish Blake, Lego Masters Australia: Grand Masters of the Galaxy, 9Network
• Julia Morris, I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, Network 10
• Larry Emdur, The Chase Australia, Seven Network
• Lisa Millar, Muster Dogs, Muster Dogs: Where Are They Now and Back Roads, ABC
• Robert Irwin, I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, Network 10