Larry Emdur gets tattooed live on air
Larry Emdur has stayed true to his promise and tattooed the initials of the other Gold Logie nominees on his bum, live on The Morning Show.
After being nominated for the coveted award, Emdur said last Thursday that he would get the tattoo, saying: “I’m so confident I won’t win, I’ll happily get all the nominees’ name initials tattooed on my a*** on the show (The Morning Show) on Monday.”
Emdur was up against Tony Armstrong, Andy Lee, Sonia Kruger, Robert Irwin, Julia Morris, and Asher Keddie for the highly-coveted award, but beat them all out to take home the accolade.
On Monday, Emdur followed through with the outrageous promise, lazing on a massage bench in the studio.
“Kylie, I can’t see what’s happening!” Larry said.
The design included the outline of a Logie, with the initials of all the other nominees in the plaque.
Larry debuted the tattoo live on air after trying to keep cool during the tattoo process.
During an interview on Sunrise earlier that morning, Emdur told Nat and Shirvo it was the “dumbest promise he was ever made” after his win, laughing off the challenge as he confirmed he would be going through with the ink.
Reflecting on his Gold Logie speech, Larry said it was a “surreal” moment in his career.
“I knew I needed to thank my work family and my family family — I knew I wanted to thank the other nominees,” Emdur said.
“It was so surreal. I was standing up there just looking down at all these famous people. I was thinking it was really a moment.
“I was so humbled, thrilled and honoured … you just go wow, all of TV is in this room. Everything I worked for and everything I wanted to be part of.”
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