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Neighbours stars are instructing UK residents to vote for Logie Awards

Neighbours stars are instructing UK residents to vote for Logie Awards A Neighbours star have been caught encouraging overseas residents to take advantage of a Logie Award voting 'loophole'. Veteran actress Colette Mann, who plays Sheila Canning on the long-running soap, instructed overseas fans to vote for co-stars Ryan Moloney and Eve Morey so they could be shortlisted to win a Logie Award in early March.Using the sneaky yet astonishingly easy technique, UK fans were quick to jump on board and vote. 'Pick yourself an Australian postcode and vote!': Neighbours stars caught instructing UK residents on how to vote for co-stars to win a Logie Award - despite the rule that they must be Australian residentsColette told fans all they had to do was 'Google whitepages.com.au and pick yourself an Australian address and postcode and vote vote vote'.  '[And] tell all your friends and family to do the same,' she added. Man fans then posted that they had successfully voted from various locations around the UK. At present, there is a rule which states that only Australian residents can vote for their favourite stars and programs - but people have found a way around this.  Playing fair? Veteran actress Colette Mann, who plays Sheila Canning on the long-running soap, was caught telling overseas fans to vote for co-stars Ryan Moloney and Eve Morey so they could be shortlisted to win a Logie Award in early MarchOnline voting for the 61st Logie Awards is open to 'Australian residents only' and requires fans to enter their title, name, address, suburb, state, postcode, email, telephone, sex, age and date of birth. While there may have been a sudden influx of votes coming in from overseas, TV WEEK editor Thomas Woodgate remains confident they won't be counted in the final draw.  'Look, I did see that certain actors and actresses on the show were encouraging people from overseas [to vote], but I think what people don't know is that Roy Morgan manages the verification of all the votes on behalf of the TV Week Logie Awards,' he told News.com.au. Sneaky: Using the sneaky yet astonishingly easy technique, UK fans were quick to jump onboard and vote after Colette linked fans to a website which outlined how overseas could successfully vote Fair game? After Twitter users said they wished they could vote from the UK- Colette replied and told them they could just 'Google' a postcode and vote'What happens is once all the votes come in, a very detailed verification process is put in place, and what that does is eliminate all invalid votes, and that includes any international votes from that final tally. 'They make absolutely sure that only votes with valid contact information from local voters are valid.' Ryan has been nominated Most Popular Actor and Eve, Most Popular Actress and the coveted Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian TV.  Winners? Eve Ryan Molone (left) has been nominated Most Popular Actor and Eve Morey (right), Most Popular Actress and the coveted Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Austr

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