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THE actor who played Julian Assange's hacker buddy in a Channel 10 telemovie has been conspiring on the internet to rig the online Logies' voting so that he can win Most Popular Actor and make a mockery of the awards show.

In an online forum, Jordan Raskopoulos, who had a supporting role in Underground: The Julian Assange Story, ridiculed the TV awards show and vowed to reward those that voted for him by letting them write lines of his acceptance speech.

Raskopoulos is on a short-list for nomination alongside some of Australia's most famous faces - Hugh Sheridan, Matthew Le Nevez, Gary Sweet and Guy Pearce.

"The Logie awards is Australia's equivalent of the Emmys. They're our annual television awards, they're utterly terrible and, unlike the Emmys, the big awards are decided by public vote . . . They're usually won by soap opera actors, many a Neighbours starlet has claimed a Logie," he wrote.

"Please don't misread this thread as a plea to the internet to vote for me for my own gain. This is an opportunity to get a man from the internet onto live television to mock an Australian institution (and potentially ruin my career)."

The confessed "no-name" actor wrote that he neither "deserved nor respected" the accolade and offered to give a speech cobbled together from his voters' emailed submissions that would see him making jokes about being on a sex offender registry, making silly noises mid-speech and thanking made-up people.

He even promised to lick Today Show reporter Richard Wilkins and make jokes about TV veteran Bert Newton.

"If I win it will definitely be one of the greatest, weirdest speeches ever," Raskopoulos said yesterday.

Many of the online forum users said they had voted for him to win. TV Week could not be reached for comment.

- with Christopher Gillett