Whatâ€™s Cam done with his Logie?

TV Host Scott Cam joins Karl and Lisa on the TODAY Show to talk about his big Gold Logie win. Courtesy Channel Nine

HE'S not 100 per cent certain, but Scott Cam is fairly confident he's the first Gold Logie winner to turn Australian television's highest award into a bottle opener.

"I'm pretty sure it might be the first one," he said. "It was my idea, my concept, so whoever is going to copy it from now on — make note, I did come up with the concept."

Noted.

And just like a makeover on The Block , it took him hardly any time.

"It literally took me a half-hour.

"I've just drilled a little hole in the back underneath, which is a bit bigger than a stubby lid, and I've just got a flat bottle opener — you know those ones the kids have, the barmen, and they swing it around on their finger and they open the bottle for you? — anyway I've just grinded that off, the end of that, and just put a trimmer, so it was flush, routed out a little bit of a section the same shape as that, and then screwed it into the bottom, so it still sits flush on the table, so it wouldn't know it was there til you lift it up."

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Keeping his promise ... The Block host Scott Cam with his Gold Logie turned bottle opener. Picture: Virgina Young Source: News Corp Australia

The TV veteran — and actual carpenter — said his motivation was practical. Mostly.

"I like to multipurpose things, I don't like to have things sitting around, I like to be able to use them, instead of them just being ornaments."

Plus: "When you've got friends over, you can't actually say come and have a look at my Gold Logie. That's a bit pretentious. But if someone's got a stubby, then I'll go hang on, let me just go get my gold stubby opener …

"If I've got a barbecue on, people need bottle openers. The new fancy beers, like the Asahis and the Peronis, they're not twist tops, Europeans haven't got it, so I'll get rid of all the bottle openers in the house and the only one that'll be there is the Gold Logie. And I'll go hang on, let me just go and get the only bottle opener I have."

More useful ... Block host Scott Cam with his Gold Logie turned bottle opener. Picture: Virgina Young Source: News Corp Australia

With the next season of The Block starting on Nine tomorrow night (Sunday), it seemed timely to check with Cam whether any of these new contestants had the sorts of renovating skills required to repurpose a Gold Logie from an inert figurine into a handy household gadget.

"No!" He sounds horrified. "No. I would not trust that job with anyone bar myself. That's like getting the carpenter to do the heart transplant. No one would be in my workshop touching that Logie. I had one of my children with a spotlight on me, wiping the brow, patting me down when I was sweating."

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His main dilemma now is: does he give his Silver Logie the same treatment?

"I don't know whether to turn it into a can opener. I think I might just leave that as is in that team. The Gold will be the tool and the Silver will be the spectator."

New contestants in the next series of The Block Glasshouse with host Scott Cam. Source: Supplied