The 2023 Logie Award nominations are in, and among the first-timers for a Gold Logie nod is ABC journo Leigh Sales. The Australian Story host has been nominated for TV’s most popular personality after calling time on her 12-year run on the current affairs program 7.30 last year. Sales said the nomination felt “surreal” and quipped that the “less people see me, the more popular I apparently am”. She’s up against 2-time Gold Logie winner Hamish Blake, host-of-many-shows Osher Günsberg, comedians Julia Morris and Shaun Micallef, Mystery Road: Origin actor Mark Coles Smith, and Dancing with the Stars host Sonia Kruger. Blake, Morris, Micallef and Kruger are also in the running for the Bert Newton Award for most popular presenter alongside The Block’s Scott Cam and the ABC’s Tony Armstong. And Foxtel/Binge drama miniseries The Twelveled the viewing nominations with 9. Whack it in the diary: the trophies will be handed out in Sydney on 30 July.