Why Tracy Grimshaw has boycotted the Logies red carpet for almost a decade
Tracy Grimshaw has revealed why she has not walked the red carpet at the Logies for almost a decade.
The A Current Affair host, who is nominated for the Gold Logie at this Sunday’s awards, spoke to Kyle and Jackie O on KIIS FM today about her red carpet boycott.
“For 10 years I have snuck into the Palladium Room at the Crown in Melbourne through the kitchen so I can avoid the red carpet,” she said.
Grimshaw said one particular incident a decade ago sparked her boycott.
“There is a reason I boycotted the Logies red carpet 10 years ago,” she said.
“The last time I did the red carpet, this lovely stylist in Melbourne … made me a dress that I loved. I can’t wear high heels and I struggle with all that stuff because I have a dodgy ankle. She finally made me a dress that I could wear comfy heels with and it was all fine.”
But the dress was criticised by the media, with the whole incident leaving a sour taste in Grimshaw’s mouth.
“The snappers on the red carpet posed me in such a way that I didn’t look so good,” Grimshaw said.
Tracy Grimshaw last walked the Logies red carpet in 2009.
“I was nominated as the worst dressed at the Logies that year and I felt really sorry for her [the stylist] because she’s made me this dress and I liked it. I felt so bad for her.
“I’m not a fashionista, I don’t put myself out there as a fashionista, I don’t pretend to be the best dressed anywhere and I just decided if this what the red carpet is I’m not doing it anymore.”
But the TV veteran told Kyle and Jackie O she is ready to walk the red carpet at this Sunday’s awards.
The 2018 TV Week Logie Awards will air live on Channel 9 from 7pm on Sunday, July 1