Logies 2025 live updates: Magda Szubanski delivers heartbreaking speech amid cancer battle, Jelena Dokic wins
The 2025 Logies are underway at The Star in Sydney where Australian TV celebrities are starting to take to the red carpet.
The prestigious awards haven’t got off to the best start thanks to wild weather and the closure of the Harbour Bridge, due to a Palestine protest, making it more difficult than usual to arrive at the venue in Pyrmont.
All eyes are on the red carpet this afternoon with famous faces dressing to impress in stunning outfits.
The live broadcast starts at 7pm on Seven, with the red carpet show with the official awards from 7.30pm, hosted by Sam Pang for the third year in a row.
Key Events
George Negus gets moving tribute from Tara Brown
The veteran newsman passed away last October, following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
George truly was a trailblazer....and one of the nicest people I’ve ever interviewed.
A fitting tribute.
Vibe check: how are we all feeling about the awards so far?
It’s all shaping up pretty much as expected.
ABC must be pleased they’ve scored so many gongs - Nine are also doing well.
But now we’re getting to the pointy end, and all those big acting awards are going to start coming thick and fast.
Side note: who else was feeling all misty-eyed over that gorgeous Magda Szubanski tribute? Gosh, she really is the GOAT.
Ooh, we’re back: check back in later, yeah?
Glen Butcher wins Best Supporting Actor
This marks the third Logie for Fisk tonight.
Glen’s just pleased he’s not in the ‘In Memorium’ segment of the show!
Side note: we’re LOVING those yellow sneakers. And the fact he thanked Ballina in NSW.
He’s right, it IS a lovely town!
Julia Zemiro wins a Logie!
This is Julia’s first individual Logie win.
“Thank you everyone, how delightful!” she said on stage.
Nominees for best supporting actress
- Aisha Dee, Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix
- Chloé Hayden, Heartbreak High, Netflix
- Julia Zemiro, Fisk, ABC
- Marg Downey, The Newsreader, ABC
- Michelle Lim Davidson, The Newsreader, ABC
- Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix
Fisk wins Best Scripted Comedy Progam
Julia Zemiro and Kitty Flanagan are up accepting the award alongside the show’s producers.
“This is the first Logie we’ve won for Fisk and I can’t thank you enough,” Flanagan said.
“We do feel like our third season was our best season, we finally got our sh**t together and worked out what we’re all doing.”
Ayesha Madon and Chloe Hayden are up presenting Best Scripted Comedy Program
And don’t they look sensational!
The nominees are:
- Austin, ABC
- Colin From Accounts, Binge/Foxtel
- Fisk, ABC
- Good Cop/Bad Cop, Stan
- Melbourne International Comedy Festival, ABC
- Optics, ABC
Messages of love for Magda flow in
Fellow celebrities have sent messages of love and praise to the talented actress and comedian.
Kylie Minogue: “Magda that you are receiving such a prestigious awards that you are one of the smartest humans. I just want to kiss you so hard you would have a pash rash all over you.”
Rebel Wilson: “Thank you so, so much for paving a way for female comic performers like myself.You are the best of the best.”
American actress Melissa McCarthy also praised her wit and legendary personality.
Magda’s speech a tearjerker
The TV great couldn’t be at the event in person tonight but she sent in a recored video message that has brought guests and viewers to tears.
“I do have a good excuse this time, normally I don’t come because I can’t be bothered getting out of my pyjamas. This time there really is a reason.
“I want to say first of all, let’s get this out of the way, I have not been awarded this honour because I have the cancer, like I am getting this because of 40 years of hard work.”
“The love and support that I have felt, like a tsunami, from the Australian public, it has been overwhelming and I have to tell you, it really helps.
“I did not think I was going to cry.
“When I go online and look at those messages, every time, my heart lifts. And I feel that much stronger to deal with the cancer. So thank you for the love that you are pouring my way, I really feel it.”
The magic of Magda
Magda Szubanski has been inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame for her contribution to Australian television.
The 64-year-old is best known for winning the hearts of Aussies as Sharon Strzelecki in Kath and Kim.
It comes after Szubanski announced in May she had stage-four mantle cell lymphoma, describing it as a “rare and fast-moving blood cancer”.
She becomes the fifth woman inducted since the award was established in 1984, joining Ruth Cracknell, Noni Hazlehurst, Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Rebecca Gibney.
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