AMANDA TELLS TOM ‘IT’S NOTA JOKE!’
There was one noticeable absence from the 2022 TV Week Gold Logie list – former two-time nominee, Amanda Keller, who admits missing out sparked “an interesting spread of emotions”.
In a candid discussion on her WSFM radio show recently, Amanda revealed her time as a nominee in 2019 was “really hard”, due to the nature of the campaign run by comedian, Tom Gleeson, who is up for Gold again this year alongside Karl, Sonia Kruger, Julia Morris,
Ray Meagher, Hamish Blake and Melissa Leong.
“[His] trope was, ‘this is meaningless, but I’m going to rort the system’, and he kind of sledged it along the way,” Amanda, 60, explained. “I wasn’t capable of running my own race because that narrative was picked up … and it became ‘Tom versus me’.”
The Living Room presenter clarified that it wasn’t losing that bothered her, but rather the spectacle of the campaign. “It was hard.”