Lisa Wilkinson will not be attending the Logies this year with her TV career on hold and calls for her to be stripped of her award

Lisa Wilkinson will be missing from the Logies this year, just twelve months after she received the industry’s highest award for her Brittany Higgins interview.

The Australian reports that Wilkinson will not be present at The Logies, which will be held in Sydney on Sunday evening.

It comes after a leaked pre-interview lunch with Brittany Higgins and others revealed the extent to which The Project host tried to politicize her rape allegation.

There have been increasing calls in recent months for Wilkinson to return her gong for Most Outstanding News Coverage of Public Affairs Report, which she was awarded last June for her explosive interview with the former Liberal staffer.

The calls were prompted by the emergence of a recording of a five-hour meeting between Wilkinson, her Channel Ten producer Angus Llewellyn, Ms Higgins and her boyfriend David Sharaz in a Sydney hotel room in January 2021.

The allegations that arose from the taped lunch meeting are that Wilkinson coached and exhorted Ms. Higgins about the rape allegations prior to her interview.

The group also spoke of the Labor politicians they claimed they could rely on to fire off Questions Time questions and the apparent mockery of the Liberal Party’s pre-selection of Indigenous candidates.

Wilkinson was later forced to apologize to candidate Jacinta Nampijinpa Price after she appeared to compare her pre-selection to a white family “hiring a black cleaner.”

Wilkinson famously basked in her triumph at last year’s awards show.

“After 40 years in journalism, this interview and story is by far the most important work I have ever done,” she told the audience at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre.

And I knew it from the very first phone call I had last year from a young woman whose name, she told me, was Brittany Higgins.

“As Brittany warned me before we went on air, her story would be seen not as a human problem by many of the most powerful people in this country, but as a political one.”

Mr Lehrmann went on trial in the ACT High Court last year after pleading not guilty to sexually assaulting Ms Higgins, but the trial was dropped due to juror misconduct.

The charges were later dropped by the Director of Public Prosecutions and Mr. Lehrmann continued to deny the allegation.

He is also suing the ABC over the live broadcast of Mrs. Higgins’ address to the National Press Club on February 9, 2022.

He claims that broadcasting the address implied that he had raped Mrs Higgins, even though he was not mentioned in the speech.