Carrie Bickmore is TV’s Golden Girl

Carrie Bickmore takes home the Gold Logie at this year's awards show in Melbourne. Photo: Getty Images

Turning heads on the red carpet at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium just six-weeks after giving birth, new mum Carrie Bickmore celebrated a triumphant night at the 57th annual Logie Awards, scooping her first win, for most popular presenter, and the night’s top honour, the Gold Logie.

Donning a beanie on-stage in honour of her late husband Greg who died of brain cancer in 2010, The Project star turned the spotlight onto the deadly disease during an emotional acceptance speech: “It kills more people under 40 than any other cancer,” said Bickmore, noting her late husband “was one of the unlucky ones.” Asking her TV peers to help raise funding for brain cancer research, added the 34-year-old: “I want to ask anyone who’s on TV tomorrow to whack on a beanie tomorrow.”

The Project host earlier gave a shout out to her producer partner Chris, their six-week-old daughter Evie and her son Ollie, 8, as she collected the most popular presenter trophy: “To Chris, thank you for supporting me along the way and showing me there can be sunshine at the end of the road ... and what a cute little human we’ve created together,” said Bickmore, in plunging Paolo Sebastian. “And to Ollie, you’re the most incredible little man and my favourite job is being a mum.”

With Evie being babysat by her grandma in the Crown hotel, “I’m going to feed now and I’ll do it again during the night,” Bickmore told WHO on the red carpet, “then I might have a champagne and mum can give her a bottle after that!”

Fellow Gold Logie nominee Asher Keddie was in also in a celebratory mood as she returned to the spotlight six-weeks after giving birth to son Valentino.

“I’ve had such a fantastic year, it’s just been filled with pure joy and this is just the icing on the cake,” said the Offspring star as she accepted her most popular actress win.

The Alex Perry-clad star had tipped Bickmore for the Gold Logie: “I think it’s Carrie’s year and I think that’s fantastic,” she told WHO as she walked the red carpet with husband Vincent Fantauzzo. “[Valentino’s] just meant so much to me, I can’t believe how I’m feeling,” she added. “He was a week old when the nominations were announced and I just felt really elated.”

It was also a date night for Richard Roxburgh and wife Silvia Colloca; Michelle Bridges and Steve ‘The Commando’ Willis; Tim Robards and Anna Heinrich and Gold Logie nominee Andy Lee and model girlfriend Rebecca Harding, who made their red carpet debut together. Meanwhile, The Bachelor’s Blake Garvey and Louise Pillidge avoided an awkward run-in with Garvey’s ex-fiancée Sam Frost by arriving as the red carpet was wrapping up.

Other big winners included Wentworth’s Danielle Cormack, Never Tear Us Apart’s Luke Arnold, Home and Away’s Steve Peacocke and Love Child star Miranda Tapsell, who won two gongs including the Graham Kennedy Award for most outstanding newcomer: “Put more beautiful people of colour on TV and connect viewers in ways which transcend race and unite us,” said the Love Child star during a powerful speech. “That’s the real team Australia.”

While the night was all about celebrating the best of local TV – Seven’s Home and Away won best drama and was inducted into the Logies hall of fame – it was international guest performers Ricky Martin, Meghan Trainor and The Script who got the star-studded Palladium Ballroom into party mode. 2014 Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst also brought the star power: “This is unfortunately my last night in Australia,” said the drag queen from Austria. “What a cherry on the cake this event is for me. ”

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