Actress Asher Keddie reveals why she is refusing to wear high heels on the Logies red carpet – despite being up for the night’s top award

Asher Keddie has revealed that she will be giving her feet a break at this year’s Logie Awards. 

The Australian star is up for the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television – but she’ll be keeping things comfortable on the red carpet. 

‘If you feel fabulous, you will generally look pretty good’ the 49-year-old tells Stellar Magazine. 

‘This year – and this is probably down to age as well, and having done it so many times – I don’t feel the pressure to look a certain way, or as what everybody else wants me to look like.’ 

Resisting that pressure includes ditching the heels, the Strife star explained. 

‘I’m done with wearing very high heels all day. I don’t know how I did it for all those years on Offspring’ she said. 

‘That’s why I chose plenty of fabulous sneakers for playing Evelyn in Strife. It’s much easier.’ 

Asher’s new series Fake is the hot new Australian drama that has quickly become a favourite with viewers and critics alike.

However it appears fans of the Paramount+ streaming success Fake are in for disappointment.

Star of the eight-part series Asher has confirmed there won’t be a season two. 

‘I think it’s a contained story and which we, as a creative team, feel has tied off with no plans for more,’ she explained during an episode of the TV Reload podcast.

Inspired by writer Stephanie Wood’s own experience with a love scam artist Fake follows the character of Birdie Bell (Keddie) who is cruelly deceived by a man she met on a dating app.

The drama unfolds as Birdie becomes trapped in a volatile relationship with a swindler called Joe (played by veteran Aussie actor David Wenham) who claims he is a wealthy grazier.

Joe turns out to be a homeless liar and serial fraudster who has lured other women into similar scams using dating apps.

‘I’m done with wearing very high heels all day. I don’t know how I did it for all those years on Offspring’ she said.  Pictured with husband Vincent Fantauzzo

Elsewhere in the chat Asher, who is one of the producer’s of Fake, discussed why the show seems to have hit a nerve with viewers.

‘[Being scammed] can happen to anybody…and has happened to many people. An involvement like this can push someone into losing their identity as they know it,’ she said.

The series is inspired by writer Stephanie Wood’s own experience with a love scam artist and serial deceiver, laid out in her 2019 memoir of the same name.

With the main character heavily inspired by Wood, the series explores Birdie’s psyche as she becomes trapped in Joe’s gaslighting and manipulative behaviour.

Asher’s new series Fake is the hot new Australian drama that has quickly become a favourite with viewers and critics alike. Pictured with co-star David Wenham

Birdie, an independent magazine features writer, decides to start dating again after being single for five years, before quickly becoming influenced by single father Joe’s apparent intellectualism and charming personality.

Despite an unconvincing first date, Birdie ignores her instincts and is quickly sucked into his world, with viewers being taken along as they learn exactly how she found herself falling victim to his emotional abuse.

Birdie is eventually left questioning her own sense of reality as Joe’s manipulation and gaslighting ramps up and their relationship becomes nothing like the fantasy she’d longed for. 

Although Joe narrates the thriller, the first five episodes focus on Birdie’s perspective of her increasingly manipulative relationship, and it is not until episode six that viewers finally learn the truth of Joe’s reality.