The winner of the 2025 TV WEEK Gold Logie Award has been revealed to be none other than Home and Away’s Lynne McGranger!
Lynne, who recently stepped up to the stage to accept the award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama, was overjoyed when her name was called by 2024 Hall of Fame inductee, Rebecca Gibney.
“33 years, I’ve done this amazing show. And I am thrilled and honoured,” she said, looking the picture-perfect recipient for the Gold Logie Award as she wore a beautiful gold gown.
“Before I forget, this is going to be pride of place next to my 1974 Wagga Wagga Drama Festival Best Actress,” she added, referring to the Gold Logie Award.
The beloved actress continued to acknowledge her “beautiful” fellow nominees, Poh Ling Yeow, Julia Morris, Hamish Blake, Sonia Kruger, Ally Langdon and Lisa Millar.
Her acceptance speech then referenced 2024 Gold Logie winner, Larry Emdur who got his fellow nominees tattooed on his behind following his win…
“I did promise that if I won the Gold Logie, I would carry it around in my handbag for a year, which is better than putting my white a**e on morning television, Larry! So I will do that, I may regret it.
“But I also thought what I could do is in a few years’ time when I die, I might chop the head off, scoop it out, and put the ashes in there, and screw the head back on and give it to Clancy, my beautiful daughter, who is here with me tonight, and she can put it on the mantelpiece.”
“So there are more ways of using a Logie than just carrying them around in your bag.”
The 72-year-old thanked her Home and Away co-stars, writers and producers. Lynne, who has filmed her final scenes for the Australian soap, admitted there was something she didn’t love about her final moments in Summer Bay.
“Honestly, these guys, when I was finishing up, I had to work probably some 13 and 14-hour days, and I whinged like a b****. These guys do this week in and week out, and they whinge a little bit, but they are very good at their job, and this show has been kept afloat because of the wonderful writers and the wonderful production,” she said.
