Sonia Kruger spills on Hamish Blake's Logies red carpet dig: 'Wow'

It’s one of the most controversial moments to have come out of the 2023 Logie Awards and now Sonia Kruger has delved deeper into the joke she made about Hamish Blake on-stage during her winning speech.

The Voice host took home the top gong at the prestigious awards show, looking absolutely shocked when her name was called out by triple Gold Logie award-winner Daryl Somers.

Sonia took to the stage after leaving her speech in her bag and joked that 'people are a little over Hamish' and their joint agent, Mark Clements, hopes he'll leave their agency.

“I've joked with Hamish, Hamish and I have the same agent, Mark Clements, he's here tonight, and I said, 'Mark, who did you vote for?', putting him on the spot and he's like, ‘Well, Sonia, I think people are a little over Hamish’. I went, ‘No Mark, surely not, he's the odds-on favourite to win’. And he went, ‘No, frankly I am secretly hoping he will leave the agency so I can concentrate all of my efforts on you Sonia’,” she said.

While Sonia was obviously joking, she did have to backtrack when Hamish Blake looked a little bit put out by the joke and a lot of people in the room sounded like they took it up the wrong way.

“Obviously Mark did not say that, I'm paraphrasing,” she clarified.

Speaking on the Kyle and Jackie O Show on KIIS FM the day after the Logies went to air, Sonia revealed Hamish has actually taken his own swipe at her when they were on the red carpet together.

Co-host Kyle Sandilands brought up the awkward moment, with Sonia saying: “Oh yeah that went down well didn’t it?”.

Kyle went on to tell Sonia he “thought it was funny”. “So you got it right?” Sonia asked, with both Kyle and Jackie O saying they totally understood Sonia’s quip was a joke.

“In the room I felt like people were taking me seriously,” Sonia said, with Jackie O confirming they did, which she said was “odd”.

“I thought it was amazing. It was a nice win, it was well-deserved,” Kyle said.

However, Jackie O did say that she picked up on Sonia’s choice of words during the speech, where she said she was “paraphrasing” Mark Clements’ words.

“So what did happen? What was the conversation?” Jackie asked.

“Well the funny thing was right, so I did actually put it on Mark because he does represent Hamish and he represents me, so I said ‘Who did you vote for?’ and he wasn’t expecting the question, he was like ‘Aw Sonia, look Hamish has won a few times I think it’s your turn and in fact I actually think Hamish has voted for you too,”

“So I asked Hamish on the red carpet last night and he said ‘No I voted for Leigh Sales’ and I was like ‘Wow’. I said ‘You’re just trying to prove you’re smart that you watch the news, 7:30 like you don’t even know what time it’s on, it’s called The 7:30 Report but when’s it on."

Yesterday, Sonia also appeared on KIIS 101.1’s Jase & Lauren show, where she revealed she had forgotten to bring her speech up to the stage with her.

“I had written something. It was in my bag so that didn’t help, so I kind of just had to wing it and my brain was so scrambled,” Kruger said.

She went on to say that she had been up since 8am that morning, and as her name was being called, she was “dreaming about cheeseburgers and fries in my room”

“It’s great because we’ve all known each other for a long time and a lot of us have been around for a long time but also, you kind of want to impress them with something witty or funny and sometimes it doesn’t come off," she continued.

“I was making the joke about our agent, Hamish and I, and I think people took it seriously. It was an absolute joke and the agent found it funny, I hope Hamish did too. I must give him an apology email today.”

While many people applauded Sonia’s speech, others were a little divided over the comment she made about Hamish.

“Sonia, when you have to say 'I’m joking' more than once … clearly you’re not telling jokes,” one person said.

“Sledging Hamish during her speech? Interesting,” another person said.

“Someone needs to make a gif of Hamish's face when Sonia made the 'leaving the agency' joke about him,” another wrote.

"I think it's hilarious that she jokingly insulted Hamish when Hamish's whole thing is that he's this nice lovable dude, lol," a Twitter user added.

Others congratulated the star on her career in the industry, with her hard work all adding up to this moment.

“I mean, Sonia Kruger is a goddess. Look at her! Amazing. Congrats,” one person wrote.

“WELL DESERVED love Sonia soooooo much, such an amazing and kind woman,” another person said.

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