‘They cancelled me’: Why Shaun Micallef never hosted a second Logies
This Sunday, Sam Pang hosts his second Logies in a row – an honour that was never bestowed on Shaun Micallef, despite his 2001 hosting appearance going down in legend. Micallef spoke to Mumbrella during the week, and explained why he was ‘one and done’.
“Strangely enough, they did ask me to do the second year,” Micallef recalls, after his first hosting job.
“And then they cancelled me and brought in Wendy [Harmer].”
Ah, Wendy Harmer. Having the unenviable job of following not only Shaun Micallef, but two years of Andrew Denton before this, Harmer’s attempt at carrying along the ‘edgier’ tone of recent ceremonies famously bombed – and she was widely pilloried.
