‘It shocks me’: Melissa Leong on Australian TV and her chance at making history

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Melissa Leong is having none of that business about how you’re supposed to downplay the significance of a Gold Logie nomination.

with his irony-fuelled win in 2019, you can make that the past three years. And that just happens to be the span over which Leong has gone from a freelance food journalist to one of the most recognisable faces on Australian television – and one of its most distinctive.

“I’m very pleased to just be here so we can have these conversations about representation – that in and of itself is a win,” she adds. “But if I did win, then that’d definitely be a moment in Australian history, and that’s a pretty cool thing to be a part of.”, the host of the massively popularwhose chart-topping podcast with Andy Lee and huge social media following makes him a serious chance of repeating his 2012 win.

Leong has a second solo shot at a Logie on Sunday – she’s also nominated for the newly minted Bert Newton Award for most popular presenter – while the show she co-hosts with Jock Zonfrillo and Andy Allen is in the running for most popular reality program, and the industry-voted most outstanding reality program too.

She’ll be wearing vintage Collette Dinnigan on Sunday, but for this shoot she’s opted for “oxblood patent leather, because why not”.“You just get a Chux and you’re fine. So for long sessions and unpredictable nights out – or, I guess, working in my office – this would be quite useful for a quick clean-up.”Given the range of designer clothes she cycles through on the show, and the vast amount of eating the job demands, splatter must be a real occupational hazard.

 

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