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Australia’s biggest vigor stars person deed the reddish carpet for the ACRAs (Australian Commercial Radio & Audio Awards).
The lawsuit is being held astatine The Star Sydney with attendees including Kate Ritchie, Carrie Bickmore, Tommy Little, Will and Woody and Amanda Keller.
The ACRAs are fundamentally radio’s mentation of the Logies, but there’s 1 main quality … the ACRAs are 10 x much wild.
Radio stars instrumentality afloat vantage of the information the ceremonial isn’t televised and happily indulge successful the unfastened barroom passim the night.
“It gets loose,” Fitzy from Nova 96.9 told news.com.au. “You beryllium down, you person a beauteous meal, but you are drinking the full clip and determination are truthful galore awards that you person to get through.
“It’s similar throwing everything into a dilatory cooker astatine the commencement of the day, and astatine the extremity of the time erstwhile you get location from enactment it’s acceptable to burst!” Fitzy said.
“And towards the end, that’s erstwhile the heckling truly starts,” his co-host, Wippa said.
The Nova duo said the ACRAs utilized to beryllium adjacent much escaped backmost successful the day.
“I heard a communicative that immoderate of the Nova squad had been smuggling successful alcohol,” Wippa told news.com.au, earlier Fitzy owned up to the information it was him.
“I utilized to bash it each year,” Fitzy said. “I would bring 2 truly bully bottles of vino and I would enactment them successful bags and I would accidental to (security) connected the reddish carpet, ‘this is simply a acquisition for idiosyncratic successful our team,’ and I would get them done each time.”
Just similar the Logies, the ACRAs besides utilized to invitation immoderate large planetary guests to be the ceremony, including Sharon Osbourne backmost successful 2012.
“One twelvemonth the peculiar impermanent was Kelsey Grammer (from the TV show, Frasier),” Fitzy recalled.
“My mum made maine get a photograph with him,” Wippa laughed.
“There was a infinitesimal halfway done the nighttime wherever Kelsey Grammer was connected signifier and I curse helium was reasoning to himself, ‘where has my vocation gone that I’m connected the Gold Coast successful Australia doing a vigor awards night?’” Fitzy said.
The nominees
71 awards are up for grabs astatine this year’s ACRAs with the large award, comparable to the Gold Logie, being ‘Best On Air Team (Metro)’.
This year’s nominees are WSFM’s Jonesy and Amanda, KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O, Gold FM’s Christian O’Connell, Nova’s Jase and Lauren, the Hit Network’s Carrie and Tommy, and Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa with Kate Ritchie.
The class has antecedently been dominated by Kyle and Jackie O (they’ve won 4 times successful the past 10 years) and Jonesy and Amanda (they’ve won 3 times successful the past 10 years).
The different large grant astatine the ACRAs is the Individual Talent of the Year Award.
This year’s finalists are Christian O’Connell (Gold FM), Ray Hadley (2GB), “Ugly” Phil O’Neil (WSFM), Jackie O (KIIS FM), Fifi Box (Fox FM), Kate Ritchie (Nova), Ricki-Lee Coulter (Nova) and Ben Fordham (2GB).
We’ll archer you who won what aboriginal successful the evening.
What’s successful store for the ceremony
There’s nary main big for tonight’s ceremony. Instead, a assortment of vigor stars volition contiguous passim the night.
They see Melissa Doyle, Richard Wilkins, Ray Hadley, Fitzy, Wippa, Kate Richie, Tim Blackwell, Joel Creasey, and Will and Woody.
As for the entertainment, there’ll beryllium performances from Dean Lewis, Baker Boy and the Screaming Jets.
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