Gold Logie winner Samuel Johnson says he has Facebook to thank for his monumental win.
The actor, who took home the coveted Best Personality gong at the 59th Logie Awards on Sunday night and the Best Actor Logie for his role playing Molly Meldrum in TV miniseries Molly, said his win was unprecedented.
"No actor from a one-off TV event or from a telemovie has ever been nominated for gold before, let alone taken home the bacon," Johnson said backstage after his win.
The actor set up the cancer charity Love Your Sister on Facebook after his sister Connie was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, and last year said he was quitting acting to fundraise for the charity.
The Gold Logie votes, Johnson believes, came from the charity's 380,000-strong Facebook following.
"My sisters asked them to vote for me and they did in droves. Facebook has been swinging voting results lately and I think we're no exception. I'm not a TV personality, I'm a Facebook personality," he said.
Johnson's golden moment on stage was somewhat overshadowed when Molly Meldrum interrupted him with his own rambling tribute to the actor.
But Johnson said he might turn to his favoured forum and post his full speech on Facebook.
The Molly mini-series also won the Logie for Best Drama Program.
Henry Nixon and Anna Torv were named Most Outstanding Actor and Most Outstanding Actress. Noni Hazelhurst accepted Most Outstanding Drama Series on behalf of A Place to Call Home, noting in her speech that the show had been kicked off the Seven Network but had continued to dominate on Foxtel.
And, after a 50-year career on Australian TV, Kerri-Anne Kennerley was inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame.
The 63-year-old took her moment on stage to reveal she's releasing an autobiography, due some time towards the end of this year.
"I'm not going to use this beautiful salubrious occasion to lampoon or roast anyone because I have a book out at the end of the year for that," she said.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley poses for photographs with her Gold Logie for the TV Week Logie Hall of Fame (AAP) Source: AAP
Share
