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<postdate>2024-08-19 13:20:06</postdate>
<headline>Live on TV, Gold Logie winner gets a tattoo on his bum</headline>
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<caption>Much-loved host Larry Emdur finally got his hands on a Logie - Gold and Silver. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)</caption>
<p class="wire-column__preview__author"><span class="kicker-line">By <b>Liz Hobday</b> in Melbourne</span></p>
<p><strong>Ah, the magic of television. After 40 years in the business, veteran host Larry Emdur was so convinced he wouldn't win the Gold Logie, he made a foolish promise.</strong></p>
<p>If he won, he would have the initials of his fellow nominees tattooed on his bum, live on Seven's The Morning Show.</p>
<p>Fast forward past the golden confetti and the standing ovation to the morning after - with Emdur on set, lying on a tattoo bed, looking decidedly uncomfortable as the buzz of the needle began.</p>
<p>"Is this permanent?" he asked.</p>
<p>"I just need you to stay still," warned Zach Spiros from Bondi Ink, who said the firmness of Emdur's buttock flesh was "not the greatest".</p>
<p>And thus the outline of a Logies statue, with the initials of Julia Morris, Robert Irwin, Asher Keddie, Sonia Kruger, Tony Armstrong and Andy Lee inside its little television screen, was engraved onto Larry Emdur's behind.</p>
<p>Was this actually television genius that would deliver a ratings fillip for The Morning Show? Perhaps not even television's friendliest host, his bum strategically covered in a towel, could say.</p>
<p>"I love being in TV, I love being on TV, I've never done anything else, I've never ever wanted to do anything else," Emdur said in his speech on Sunday night.</p>
<p>And even though his adult children haven't watched free-to-air television in about 15 years, he said they are proud of him for one thing.</p>
<p>"Apparently it's rhyming slang now that if you're going on a bender, you're going on a Larry Emdur," he said.</p>
<p>By the time his Gold Logie was announced just before midnight, it appeared many in the crowd at The Star casino in Sydney had indeed been going on a Larry Emdur - though there is no word on how many of them woke up with ink they will live to regret.</p>
<p>Among the night's other big winners was Netflix series Boy Swallows Universe, which swallowed the Logies with five wins from a record 10 nominations.</p>
<p>The show's 15-year-old star Felix Cameron won the Silver Logie for Best Lead Actor in a Drama as well as Most Popular New Talent.</p>
<p>"This is quite crazy - the last award that I won before this was student of the week in Grade Five," Cameron said.</p>
<p>Best Lead Actress in a Drama went to Deborah Mailman for Total Control.</p>
<p>It was also a great night for the ABC's long-running Utopia, which won three Logies including Best Scripted Comedy.</p>
<p>Actress Rebecca Gibney was inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame, one-of-only-four women to receive the accolade.</p>
<p>For the second consecutive year comedian Sam Pang hosted the ceremony, opening with a snappy monologue - this time with cameos from Stephen Fry and Anthony Albanese ("I'm sure it will be better, I mean easier, than last year").</p>
<p>Perhaps the good and the bad of Logies night was best encapsulated by Australian Olympic breakdancer Raygun, who appeared in a surprise video message to deliver sincere words of support for the nominees.</p>
<p>"Please feel free to pull out any of my signature moves in celebration," she said.</p>
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