That is interesting. It does seem a bit unfair to both open and close the show when you think about it. I don’t know why they can’t just keep them in the same order between the rounds.
Australian Idol hits a high note for Seven
Grand Finale reaches 1.85 million, 2025 season jumps 14%
The Seven Network’s singing sensation, Australian Idol, delivered a big, loud finish to its 2025 season last night, with the second night of the Grand Finale reaching 1.85 million people across Seven and 7plus.
The thrilling finale, which saw Marshall Hamburger take the 2025 crown, drew an average national total TV audience of 1.07 million, up 13% on the 2024 Grand Finale and the biggest audience ever for an episode of Australian Idol on Seven.
Part one of the Grand Finale on Sunday night had an average audience of 1.07 million and reached 2.22 million, as Gisella Colletti, Iilysh Retallick and Marshall Hamburger took to the stage in the hope of following in the footsteps of Guy Sebastian, Casey Donovan, Damien Leith, Dylan Wright and more to become Australia’s newest Idol.
Across its full 2025 season, Australian Idol reached 11.14 million people.
This year’s season average total TV audience was 925,000, up 14% on 2024. On 7plus, its audience soared 42% to 83,300. Every episode this year delivered year-on-year audience growth.
Seven’s Director of Content, Unscripted, Majella Hay, said: “We are thrilled with how viewers embraced Australian Idol this year, making it the biggest ever season we’ve had on Seven. It’s appointment viewing and a much-loved show for the whole family.
“Australian Idol wouldn’t be possible without the support of our wonderful sponsors and the talent, hard work and passion of everyone at Seven and Eureka Productions.
“A special thank you to our fantastic judges Marcia Hines, Kylie Sandilands and Amy Shark, our great hosts Ricki-Lee and Scott Tweedie, and the amazing, talented contestants from all around the country. And a big congratulations to Marshall, our latest Australian Idol star,” he said.
Seven National Television Sales Director, Katie Finney, said: “This season of Australian Idol has been a tremendous success for our sponsors and advertisers. For the second year running, we’ve delivered audience growth across every screen of Seven, all within a premium, event TV, family-friendly environment.”
Australian Idol is produced for Seven by Eureka Productions. It will return to Seven and 7plus in 2026.
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Marshall and Gisella today posted messages of thanks on social media.
Marshall:
I can’t thank everyone enough for the love they’ve been giving on this journey!!!
Thank you to all of my friends and family who sent in surprise videos for me!!
I’m so grateful to have received so many videos!! Sadly, Australian Idol couldn’t play them all on air, so my team put this video together to show me bits of all the other messages I received!!
Thank you everyone!!! And thank you to everyone who has been supporting me and voting for me!!
Gisella:
Marshall will perform live at Kyle and Jackie O’s outside broadcast at St Kilda West Beach in Melbourne on Friday morning, as part of the show’s first appearance in Melbourne which also includes the $5 million dig competition.
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Ricki-Lee revealed on Nova drive show on Wednesday that she suffered food poisoning just before the grand final decider on Tuesday evening.
Marshall performed in a Noosa restaurant yesterday following his Idol win.
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Everyone forgets who won them both by June?
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For a show that routinely had half the audience of the timeslot winner, there sure is a lot of puff this year about how well Idol is doing…
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MAFS is a freak show but in the rankings, Australian Idol is still one of the highest rating shows of the year. Australian Survivor is too in comparison to other shows.
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Gisella sung Burn with Tina Arena in the latter’s Perth concert last night.
Iilysh performed with Shannon Noll at the Murray River Golf and Music Festival on the same weekend.
https://www.instagram.com/iilyshretallick_official/p/DI6djQ0vmKg/?hl=en&img_index=1
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During this season’s live shows, Kyle told Iilysh that he would give her a van for touring if she did not win the competition. Kyle had kept his promise and surprised Iilysh with a brand new LDV van at Culcairn.
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Marcia posted on social media that she went to the Western Bulldogs v Fremantle AFL match at Marvel Stadium last Sunday, for an audition in front of fans.
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I’m surprised that 7 didn’t even show a behind the scenes of it or mention it sometime during the broadcast as coming in 2026 
it’s the type of thing they usually do. I remember they had Gary & Matt during half time for the failed MKR spinoff show
Ricki-Lee posted on her Instagram tonight that she would start filming 2026 season auditions on Tuesday (September 23).
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Marshall Hamburger’s debut single Thought of You is out today. Marshall appeared on Kyle and Jackie O on KIIS this morning after the song was played. He said that he spent of the $100,000 prize money on buying gear for his band, and also recording new music. He said he had enough songs for an EP but his aim was to release his first album.
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He was with Rikki-Lee, Tim and Joel earlier in the week.
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