EXCLUSIVE: Lynne McGranger opens up about her first Gold Logie nomination.

Home and Away’s Lynne McGranger is nominated for the coveted Gold Logie this year. Photo: Getty

As the longest-serving female cast member on a television soap opera in Australia, Lynne McGranger is no stranger to the TV Week Logie Awards. The Home and Away actress has made countless appearances on the red carpet, and after receiving her first nomination in 2023, she is one of seven stars nominated for the coveted Gold Logie this year.

Lynne tells Yahoo Lifestyle ahead of the awards show this Sunday that while she’s yet to write a potential acceptance speech, she began planning her outfit shortly after finding out about the nomination. She explains that after a rather traumatic incident in 2016, when she couldn’t get out of her dress, she has since implemented a rule when choosing red carpet gowns.

“Make sure you can hoick it up! Because I don’t want to have to go through that again,” she remarks. “It was really one of those things where you go, ‘Oh no!’. It’s like I locked the keys in the car, ‘What am I going to do now?’.

“The beautiful Diane Lewis, who designed my outfit, the chartreuse one that I wore two years ago when I was nominated, she’s doing this gown as well, and it’s lovely. The worst that can happen is that I’ll fall upstairs and face plant, which is always on the cards.”

Lynne previously told Yahoo Lifestyle that she had a nightmare scenario at the Logies in 2016 when she wore a blue Alin Le’ Kal gown to the event and “could not go to the bathroom for eight hours”.

“I nearly got a UTI in [that dress] because I couldn’t get out of it,” she revealed. “I couldn’t get out of the bloody thing, it was unbelievable. Now I’m like, ‘Can I get out of it?’ when trying things on.”

Lynne previously revealed that she ‘nearly got a UTI’ when attending the 2016 Logies. Photo: Getty

‘A win for women everywhere’

For the first time in the award show’s history, women have dominated the Gold Logie field with six of the seven nominations. Lynne shares that regardless of the outcome, she’s thrilled to have been part of such a historic moment.

“It’s great for women of all ages,” she says. “What I’m most proud of is that a woman my age can be nominated for her first Gold Logie ever, and win, lose, or draw, I feel like it’s a win. It’s a win for women everywhere, and women of any age need never feel invisible again.”

With her final scenes on Home and Away set to air in the coming weeks, Lynne adds that the past few months have been “one hell of a ride”.

“It’s extraordinary. My worlds are colliding with Irene’s storyline winding up, doing The Grandparents Club, touring that nationally, and then the Gold Logie. Worlds have collided, so I’m just hanging on like grim death at the moment,” she laughs.