Logie Award organisers have decided not to ban Twitter at this year's event. Guests at the annual Australian television awards ceremony will be free to use the social networking site during the event. However, according to the Herald Sun, they will be asked to switch off their phones as a "courtesy". In 2009, The Chaser's Dominic Knight used Twitter to slam Gretel Killeen's on-stage performance. Comedian Wil Anderson also came under fire the same year after describing Killeen's presenting stint as "hell". Journalist Catherine Deveny was fired after writing inappropriate tweets about 11-year-old conservationist Bindi Irwin at the 2010 Logie (more)...
- 4/6/2012
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
Organisers of this year's Aria Awards have denied that Twitter is banned from the event. Celebrities attending the Australian music awards ceremony were believed to have been told to refrain from posting on the microblogging website during the event, but Aria bosses have insisted quite the opposite. Organisers told the Herald Sun that not only would guests be allowed to use social media during the show, but that they hoped the networking would help create a public buzz around the ARIAs. Earlier this year, guests at the Logie Awards were banned from using Twitter after various controversies in the past. The Chaser's Dominic Knight and comedian Wil Anderson used the website to slam 2009 host Gretel Killeen's (more)...
- 11/24/2011
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
Australian celebrities have been banned from using Twitter during this year's Logie Awards. The organisers of the TV awards ceremony recently sent out invitations to stars informing them that "mobiles will not be permitted" at the event. In the past two years, guests at the show have hit headlines for their controversial tweets during the broadcast. The Chaser's Dominic Knight used the microblogging site to slam Gretel Killeen's on-stage performance in 2009. Comedian Wil Anderson also wrote: "Gretel doing a sketch in heaven... And yet we are in hell." In 2010, journalist Catherine Deveny was fired (more)...
- 4/12/2011
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
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