LEILA’S THE LAST TO LEAVE LOGIES
MEET the Channel 9 presenter determined to ensure her Logies reputation remains intact when TV’s night of nights moves to the Gold Coast in July.
Leila McKinnon prides herself on being “the last one to leave” the Logies’ after-after party each year.
This year’s ceremony, to be held at The Star Gold Coast, won’t be able to accommodate as many guests as its former Melbourne home.
“I think I’m in. I was talking to somebody and they were saying there would be a few shocks coming. I said ‘is this an awkward moment? If I’m out, just tell me. No pressure – but it is the one night a year I get to go out’.”
McKinnon will attend the Logies solo – she said her husband, former Channel 9 boss David Gyngell, “doesn’t want to go anywhere anytime”.
“Even when he ran the network he didn’t want to go (to the Logies),” she said.
“I was thinking, I hope David doesn’t expect me to come home afterwards – I leave the dancefloor when the lights go out and the music is turned off. I watch the Today Show team do the show and then I go to bed.
“I’ll be able to walk around the corner to Mum’s (at Broadbeach Waters) this year but I’m still going to party like it’s 1999.”
McKinnon’s latest gig sees her co-host the twopart special Eat Well For Less, with chef Ben O’Donoghue, which premieres tonight at 7.30pm on Channel 9.
The special, which shows cash-strapped and timepoor Australians how to eat well for less by changing their shopping, cooking and eating habits, is loaded with insights into exactly what we put into our fridges, cupboards and mouths.