Cockies Success Rubs Off on Logies Winner Heading Detail
A meeting with the successful Country Cockatoos on Saturday night following their boil over win against the ACT has rubbed off on Home & Away TV legend Ray Meagher.
The veteran Home and Away star triumphed over Packed to the Rafters star Rebecca Gibney to take the coveted Gold at the 2010 awards.
Meagher had been the odds-on favourite, as well as the sentimental favourite, going into the Logies, but many still backed last year's winner Gibney for the top gong.
A beaming Meagher appeared emotional as he took to the stage.
"These things have never meant much to me over the years, really, mainly because I've never held one," Meagher said.
"All of a sudden they seem unbelievably important."
It's Meagher's first Logie win in a career that has including 22 years playing the lovable Alf Stewart on Network Seven soapie Home and Away.
Meagher thanked his huge online fan base, even though he didn't understand the technology.
Unfortunately Ray didn't have time to recognise the Cockatoos at the Logies on Sunday for their well wishes they provided in the tunnel on their way back into the Canberra Stadium dressing sheds but we know he is a BIG Rugby fan.
He said he hadn't won anything since a 1975 chook raffle, which he organised and drew.
"It's been a long time between drinks."....Had he stayed with the Cockatoos after the match for their celebratory drinks he would have never made it to Melboiurne to collect his Gold Logie.
He also beat his Home and Away co-star Esther Anderson, Talkin' `Bout Your Generation's Shaun Micallef, Good News Week's Paul McDermott, Rove McManus, and the ABC's Wil Anderson and Adam Hills.
Veteran TV presenter Bert Newton couldn't hide his feelings about the winner.
"I have had the opportunity, over the years, to present many Gold Logies," he said.
"None have given me more joy than to present this to Ray Meagher."