Will he bust out a shirtless salsa, or bring a crocodile onstage?<\/p>\n
With wildlife warrior, reality TV champ and sometime underwear model Robert Irwin hosting the 2026 Logies, anything could happen.<\/p>\n
The 22 year old is the youngest ever host of the Australian television industry\u2019s night of nights, from a generation more into TikTok than free-to-air broadcasting.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Irwin has just under 10 million Instagram followers, due partly to a viral salsa routine on the US version of Dancing With The Stars in late 2025, during which he ripped his shirt off and then went on to win the competition.<\/p>\n Ahead of his Logies hosting duties, Irwin explained the Australian television awards to his many American followers.<\/p>\n \u201cFor all my mates in the States, it\u2019s kinda like our version of the Emmys,\u201d he explained in a video.<\/p>\n The multi-hyphenate TV host and son of the late crocodile hunter Steve Irwin is also one of six nominees for the coveted Gold Logie – and the only one with the animal kingdom on his side.<\/p>\n Who knows, he might even stand on the podium, tear open the envelope containing the secret of the 2026 winner… and read out his own name.<\/p>\n In the 66th year of the Logies, Irwin has been nominated for the little golden statue alongside his I\u2019m A Celebrity \u2026 Get Me Out Of Here! Australia co-host Julia Morris, making it the fifth time Morris has been been in the running for the top gong.<\/p>\n Channel 10 axed the reality TV staple I\u2019m a Celebrity earlier in 2026 after a 12-season run, before it was picked up by Seven, with the network reportedly on the hunt for fresh hosts.<\/p>\n Could there be anything more representative of the jungle that is the Australian television industry, than the hosts of an axed show competing for a Gold Logie?<\/p>\n Maybe that time at the 2003 Logies, when Channel 10 sports reader Tim Webster was bitten by a snake handled by Steve Irwin, leaving him with puncture marks and a bruise, and regretting his front row seat at the glamorous awards night.<\/p>\n Logies host for the past three years Sam Pang is also up for the Gold, and it\u2019s widely agreed his zinger-filled hosting stint will be a tough act to follow.<\/p>\n But Robert Irwin\u2019s day job in between television gigs is still catching crocodiles, so even following Sam Pang shouldn\u2019t scare him too much.<\/p>\n The other nominees for the Gold are Nine\u2019s Ally Langdon and Todd Woodbridge, the ABC\u2019s Lisa Millar, and Ten\u2019s Poh Ling Yeow.<\/p>\n The 2026 Logies will also present the inaugural Bruce McAvaney Award for Most Popular Sports Presenter.<\/p>\n It\u2019s one race McAvaney can\u2019t call, especially since the veteran presenter is also one of the nominees – which might be awkward if he doesn\u2019t win.<\/p>\n Multiple Logies winner Deborah Mailman will meanwhile become the first Indigenous Australian ushered into the awards\u2019 Hall of Fame along with two other inductees yet to be named.<\/p>\n The winner of the Gold will be chosen by public vote, and Irwin has encouraged people to vote for his popular co-host.<\/p>\n The awards night will be held at The Star in Sydney on Sunday night and broadcast on the Seven network, with public voting for the Gold Logie closing at 10pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will he bust out a shirtless salsa, or bring a crocodile onstage? With wildlife warrior, reality TV champ…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[269,61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-594522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-culture","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}