Through the years, the late Bert Newton turned the unofficial face of the Logies, as he hosted the ceremony an enormous 19 instances.
He gained the Gold Logie a number of instances himself, taking out the highest gong on 4 separate events, however after Newton’s loss of life in 2021, it emerged he had really given away one in all his Gold Logies to a dying AIDS affected person.
Showbiz reporter Peter Ford revealed that within the ’90s, he had a buddy who was dying of AIDS in a Melbourne hospital, and solely had a couple of weeks left to stay. Ford despatched letters to numerous celebrities on his buddy’s behalf, asking them to signal a card and ship it again.
“5 days later, I went to the hospital and there was a buzz within the air. The individual on the desk mentioned, ‘You are not going to consider it – Bert Newton was simply right here. He is gone round to each single individual on the AIDS ward, sat at their bedside, informed them tales and made them chortle’.”
Newton even left behind one in all his Logies as a present.
