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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: Our next two guests are considered Australian TV Royalty. They've

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Speaker 3: with many storms on and off the show, and after

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Speaker 3: two tough years filming with COVID challenges, Home and Away

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Speaker 3: isn't just living its best life. Two of its biggest

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Speaker 3: stars up for oh Sway the TV week Logo Awards.

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Speaker 3: Ray mar Aida Nicodemi. Hello, class, You've got wires over

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Speaker 3: your head.

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Speaker 1: And I've got like the really big ones and you've

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Speaker 1: got the really little ones.

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Speaker 2: Look radio nomination. I'm sick of it.

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Speaker 1: Well, this was going to happen because you guys have

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Speaker 1: worked together, said Ray, You've been on the show for

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Speaker 1: a thousand years and you've been on nine hundred nine.

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Speaker 1: So do you remember when you first met Aida Ray

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Speaker 1: and vice versa. I remember when I first met Ray

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Speaker 1: because Ray was I started working and Ray wasn't there.

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Speaker 1: You would doing panto. So it wasn't until the following

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Speaker 1: year that I met you, and I was so nervous

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Speaker 1: to meet him. I was so and then I remember

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Speaker 1: hearing my first flaman and then I got really really

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Speaker 1: excited and then yeah, within the sort of hour we

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Speaker 1: chatting and we've been best friends ever since, haven't we.

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Speaker 2: Well that's debatable. Yeah, as far as I'm.

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Speaker 3: Fair enough, years maybe and then see how you feel

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Speaker 3: about her. Sorry, Look, it's just wonderful the two of you.

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Speaker 3: But look at all these nominations Gold LOGI nomination for

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Speaker 3: U Ray, congratulations. That is a big deal. And I

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Speaker 3: know it sounds trite to say being nominated is massive,

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Speaker 3: but being nominated is massive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. I guess it is, Amanda, And that's

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Speaker 2: why it's a bit of a travesty that you're not there.

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Speaker 2: That's very kind of this year. You should have won

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Speaker 2: a couple of years.

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Speaker 3: Again, you kind what it was three years since we've

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Speaker 3: last had LOGI. So I accept that the tide to

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Speaker 3: and other people need to have their moment and I

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Speaker 3: get that. But the thing I am envious of is

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Speaker 3: you guys. It's gone back to normal where you haven't

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Speaker 3: had to go and spook yourself at every opportunity and

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Speaker 3: say here's why you need to vote for me. That's

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Speaker 3: what I found so hard. It feels kinder this year somehow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it probably isn't like you. I can't stand

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Speaker 2: that vote for me. I can't even say it, or

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Speaker 2: I just did actually for me, but I really don't

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Speaker 2: like that side of it. Two weeks ago, I think

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Speaker 2: we were up on the Gold Coast for the nomination

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Speaker 2: announcements and it was sort of in the gold category.

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Speaker 2: It was sort of more like a love in than

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Speaker 2: a hate fair, and that's.

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Speaker 3: How it should be, and that's what I've always felt,

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Speaker 3: is that we are linked, not ranked, and that's we

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Speaker 3: were in a great group of people to celebrate the industry,

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Speaker 3: and that's exactly how it should feel. So I'm so

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Speaker 3: pleased that you're nominated. And also you're up for the

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Speaker 3: Silver LOGI for the most Popular Actor adas SI log

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Speaker 3: the most Popular Actress. Congratulations you, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. It is really nice to be nominated, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was stoked to be nominated. And it's such an

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Speaker 1: amazing category, like the women in the category are amazing.

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Speaker 1: But also it's great for the show. We've got six

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Speaker 1: nominations all up, and it's the most that we've ever had,

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Speaker 1: So I think it's great and I've got a really

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Speaker 1: good feeling about the show winning this.

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Speaker 2: And well, right, you've won the goal before.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you've won one before. No I have no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I haven't won. Yeah. Vote for me like Rageous.

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Speaker 3: But we have just been talking about Neighbors wrapping up.

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Speaker 3: Do you pinch yourself every day? We all do work

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Speaker 3: in the industry that we have jobs to go to

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Speaker 3: every day, isn't it? Isn't it terrific?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really sad for the industry that Neighbors has

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Speaker 1: gone because you know, it employed a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: It was a great show and I remember watching it

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Speaker 1: when I was a kid. I used to love Neighbors

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Speaker 1: and it's just so sad for the industry that we've

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Speaker 1: lost another drama because there's not a lot around at

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Speaker 1: the moment in Australia. Did you ever try to get

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Speaker 1: on Neighbors in the early days, like either of you.

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Speaker 1: I would have loved to be on Neighbors when I

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Speaker 1: was a kid. I would have loved that. But no,

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Speaker 1: I didn't actually know. I think I did go for

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Speaker 1: an audition for Neighbors. Yeah, think I did years ago.

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Speaker 1: What were you playing? I can't remember. I think it

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Speaker 1: was just like a ghost like I just went and

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Speaker 1: met the casting lady in Melbourne. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what

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Speaker 1: about you?

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Speaker 2: Ray? I was never asked any James Ragous, did.

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Speaker 3: You ever try out for something you didn't get Ray probably.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure I did. I just can't remember,

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Speaker 2: because fortunately, I've been doing this gig for five years.

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Speaker 2: What happened before that? There was a twenty year period

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Speaker 2: where again, fortunately I was fairly busy with movies and

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Speaker 2: mini series, and sometimes, you know, the movie parts were

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Speaker 2: blink and you miss me, and sometimes they were good

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Speaker 2: supporting roles, and occasionally, like My Lord of Bride, there

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Speaker 2: was a lead role, you know. So no, I can't remember,

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Speaker 2: but I'm sure I missed out on stuff I would have.

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Speaker 2: Everybody does.

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Speaker 3: But you couldn't have imagined when you said yes to

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Speaker 3: playing that role that you'd still be going strong and

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Speaker 3: in such an incredible way. You could never have pictured this.

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Speaker 2: No, that's true. I agreed to do the pilot, and

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Speaker 2: then when they said it was going to series, a

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Speaker 2: few of the cynical older actors who were in the

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Speaker 2: pilot said, oh, well, this is good. We'll get three

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Speaker 2: months workout, and then they wanted to sign us all

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Speaker 2: for two years, and I thought, oh no, I was

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Speaker 2: pretty busy at the time. I thought, no, I don't

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Speaker 2: want to commit to something for two years. And so

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Speaker 2: the then producer John Holmes said, well, will you do

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Speaker 2: six months? And I agreed and that six months flew

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Speaker 2: and the real credit was you were living at home,

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Speaker 2: in your own house, not in Melbourne or Perth or

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Speaker 2: or somewhere. And I got a bit seduced by that,

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Speaker 2: so I did another six months, and then a two

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Speaker 2: year contract, and then a three year contract, and then

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Speaker 2: five by five by five by five by five by

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Speaker 2: five repeating yea. And that was I think three hundred

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Speaker 2: years ago.

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Speaker 1: And now you've been on there for three hundred years,

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Speaker 1: you've been on for two hundred. I love what we're going.

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Speaker 1: Down and down you might have appeared on this conversation.

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Speaker 3: Just all I can say is I hope Ray you

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Speaker 3: win the gold You don't need any more support because

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Speaker 3: you've said vote for me.

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Speaker 1: You're going to take a leaf out of raised book.

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Speaker 1: This is what I vote for me. Vote for these

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Speaker 1: two guys.

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Speaker 3: You can do it.

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Speaker 1: The logos is on this Sunday. You can vote for them.

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Speaker 3: You can can't stand and for the living room as

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Speaker 3: well at TV week logis vote dot com dot au.

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Speaker 3: It's so good to see you both, and we'll see

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Speaker 3: you on the Goldie.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you very much. Always a treat, always a treat.