Miguel Maestre has fiercely defended his Living Room co-host Amanda Keller on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
On last night’s episode of the reality show, the celebrity chef shared his thoughts on Tom Gleeson’s controversial Gold Logie win while speaking to a handful of his campmates.
“I think Amanda deserved that Gold Logie,” the 40-year-old said.
“I don’t think she’s interested, I don’t think she’ll even go,” he added, when Myf Warhurst suggested that Keller may be nominated for the Gold Logie again.
Watch a snippet from Tom Gleeson’s infamous Logies speech below. Post continues after video.
“I understand the whole point of being funny and comedy, but I think that people in TV, it should be okay to want to win an award when they have been working all of their life in the craft,” he continued.
“Amanda Keller is the best in her game in radio, TV, acting and whatever she wants to do, she can do.”
Fellow comedian Dilruk Jayasinha chimed in, adding: “I think that’s his point, was that he wasn’t the best candidate to win it, but that he just ran a good campaign. That’s the whole point he was parodying the whole idea of the award.”
“But I don’t think that’s funny,” Maestre responded.
“I don’t like people bringing other people down to make fun. I think that’s not that smart… and that’s his game, that’s what he does, fantastic. I don’t really care much,” he added.
“I was there and my friend was upset for something, I thought it wasn’t in good taste. And it went for so long – we were just standing there and he went on and on and on and I thought, all these people who are here would like to win that award and work hard every day to win that award, and you are getting that award and wiping your arse with it.”
On Twitter, Keller responded to Maestre’s comments, writing: “I love his support! What a pal.”
“If you’re a Gold Logie nominee in the new world, you’ve got to be quite robust I think,” she said.
“They now have voting that opens up the week before [the awards] and doesn’t close until the end of the red carpet, so the winner is a surprise now but what that means is that it has almost turned it into a political campaign,” Keller added.
“That last week is hard yakka. It’s not for the faint-hearted. It’s a real privilege to be nominated, but it’s so hard.
“Tom and Sam are treating it – and fair enough too if they want to – like this comedy competition. Tom’s like the school bully picking us all off. It’s a different feeling and I’m not very good at it.”
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I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! airs Sunday to Thursday on Channel 10 at 7.30pm.
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Top Comments
"I don't care much".
Ha, okay. Doing a lot of whinging about it for someone who doesn't care much. I don't know if anyone cares more, except maybe Amanda Keller and Grant Denyer.
I mean, Tom presumably worked hard to win the award too, he's a writer and producer on Hard Quiz, as well as the presenter. And he's been doing stand up for years, too. I can't believe people are still going on about this.
And he's so good too. I think he deserved the award personally.