{"id":857578,"date":"2026-08-16T18:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857578\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T18:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:42:13","slug":"gold-logie-winner-2026-sam-pang-handed-gold-logie-by-magda-szubanski-at-the-2026-logies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857578\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Logie Winner 2026: Sam Pang handed Gold Logie by Magda Szubanski at the 2026 Logies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beloved actress and comedian Magda Szubanski made a very welcome return to TV screens<\/a> to hand Sam Pang the coveted Gold Logie on Sunday night. <\/p>\n

Szubanski<\/a>, 65, stepped away from the spotlight to focus on her health following a cancer diagnosis in May 2025. She has been in remission since February 2026<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Magda Szubanski made a triumphant TV return at the Logies on Sunday night.\u00a0Seven<\/p>\n

Szubanski was in full character as Sharon Strzelecki from Kath and Kim, with the crowd erupting into cheers as she shuffled onstage in an Australia Zoo get-up. <\/p>\n

Kath and Kim was also voted the #1 Best Australian Show of all time by audiences just moments before her special appearance. <\/p>\n

Everyone lapped up the skit between herself and host Robert Irwin, before she awarded comedian Pang with the coveted gong \u2013 which was quite a surprise to many.<\/p>\n

Pang beat out Ally Langdon, Julia Morris, Lisa Miller, Poh Ling Yeow, Irwin and Todd Woodbridge \u2013 arguably the toughest cohort yet in the Gold Logie category. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to say it\u2019s a big honour,\u201d Pang began in his acceptance speech. <\/p>\n

\u201cBeing here the last three years I know what we all need, I\u2019m going to keep this very very short… I\u2019m going to sing three songs.\u201d <\/p>\n

Of course, his acceptance speech was full of jokes, including a few funny titbits about his family. <\/p>\n

Szubanski accidentally interrupted Pang\u2019s winning speech, declaring she needed help going off the stage as it \u201cwas a bit slippery.\u201d <\/p>\n

Irwin flew across the stage and came to her aid as Pang returned to the mic.<\/p>\n

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Sam Pang was the surprising winner of the coveted Gold Logie.\u00a0Seven Network<\/p>\n

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The duo were absolutely hilarious on-stage.\u00a0Getty Images for TV Week<\/p>\n

\u201cHow lovely was that,\u201d Pang added, gesturing to Szubanski. <\/p>\n

He also dropped the F-bomb live on air at one stage, but everyone too excited to notice. <\/p>\n

Pang now joins the ranks of Kylie Minogue, Hamish Blake, Sonia Kruger, Lynne McGranger, Bert Newton, Ray Martin and Graham Kennedy. <\/p>\n

Pang has hosted the Logie awards for the last three years, with Irwin taking the gig this time around. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beloved actress and comedian Magda Szubanski made a very welcome return to TV screens to hand Sam Pang…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-857578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}