HAZEL PHILLIPS - I GAVEALOUSY LOGIES SPEECH!'

THE GOLD LOGIE WINNER RECALLS HER BIG NIGHT

- By Craig Bennett

Irrepressible TV trailblazer Hazel Phillips scarcely remembers that glittering night in 1967 when she won her two TV WEEK Logie Awards, including the prestigious Gold... because she could barely stay awake!

“Bert Newton was hosting, so it certainly wasn’t a dull ceremony. But I’d flown in from Los Angeles that day and was so jet-lagged I struggled to keep my eyes open,”

Hazel recalls with a laugh. Now a spry 95 and residing at a Gold Coast retirement home, Hazel is our oldest surviving female Gold Logie winner. She was the second woman to receive the top honour, after Lorrae Desmond’s breakthrough win in 1962. At the 1967 ceremony, the Gold was gendered, with Graham Kennedy taking home the male award.