Larry Emdur's crazy pledge ahead of Logies
Channel Seven presenter Larry Emdur is up for his first Gold Logie and he's so sure he won't win that he's made a wild pledge if he does end up being crowned.
“I’m so confident I won’t win, I’ll happily get all the nominees name initials tattooed on my arse on the Morning Show live on Monday [if I do],” he told news.com.au.
Despite the presenter hosting popular TV shows for over 30 years, including The Price Is Right, Wheel of Fortune, Hey Hey It’s Saturday, this is his first Logie nomination ever.
Before his hosting hobs on TV, Emdur was a cadet journalist at Seven, where he earned the title of ‘Australia’s youngest ever national newsreader’ when he presented the overnight news at just 19.
While the title sounds pretty cool, the host revealed the truth behind how he got the role.
“There’s a bit of a twist to that... it’s been slightly misrepresented over the years, but it was an overnight shift that no one wanted to do,” he said.
“For me, I wanted to surf all day, so I was like, ‘OK, I’ll do the overnight shift’. And that gave me the title back then as the youngest national newsreader.”
He landed his first job as a paperboy for Fairfax, and while it was "the crappiest early entry job", Emdur said he initially "wasn’t in there to be part of the media. I really just wanted to surf all day.”
It wasn't until a journo gave him a tip-off suggesting he rewrite an existing article about crime in Bondi and offer it to a community newspaper when things started to kick off for his career.
He wrote his very first article 'The Bondi Crime Plague by Larry Emdur’ on a typewriter and sent it to the Bondi Spectator’s office.
“They were only doing bowling reports, commercials, adverts and stuff. So they weren’t big on news. And I just wrote a note saying, ‘I’m interested in getting into the media. Dear editor, could you let me know what you think of this?’,” he said.
“That was a Monday, and Mum came into my room on a Thursday morning, woke me up and said, ‘Is this you?’ And [there it was] on page 3."
“So, I was a reporter now. I was basically stealing stories, but I was a journalist. I thought, ‘This is unbelievable’.”
He then interned for Seven during the Christmas period and got his early break producing a story that made it to air with the help of late New Zealand musician Ricky May.
“I put that down to Ricky May. He just picked me out his crowd and went, ‘Follow me. I’ll make a story with you.’”
This was a pivotal moment in his career before he was eventually promoted to national news reading, and is now a popular figure on Aussie TV.
Despite this, the Morning Show co-host still stands by his Logie prediction.
“I feel confident that I won’t be getting a tattoo on my arse on the Morning Show,” he said.
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