Keli Holiday dedicates ARIA win to reality star partner Abbie Chatfield, after revealing raunchy new song
Keli Holiday kicked off the 2025 ARIA Awards with a burst of energy, opening the ceremony with his infectious track Dancing2.
The project is the solo venture of Adam Hyde, best known as one half of Australian duo Peking Duk.
Holiday’s performance featured surprise appearances from LA-based musician G Flip, who lit up the stage with their saxophone, and Baker Boy on the didgeridoo.
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Keli Holiday performs during the the 2025 ARIA Awards. Credit: Sitthixay Ditthavong/AAPIMAGEAbbie Chatfield and her boyfriend Keli Holiday on the red carpet. Credit: Instagram
Following the opening performance, Holiday returned to the stage to accept the Best Video award for Dancing2.
Onstage, he thanked his girlfriend — reality star and radio host Abbie Chatfield — crediting her as the inspiration behind the track.
“I really want to thank Abbie, my beautiful Abbie — without her this song would not exist at all,” he said, as cameras cut to an emotional Chatfield in the audience.
Later in the show, Chatfield revealed her pride in watching Hyde on stage.
“We’re going to have a lot of fun tonight after the show,” she laughed.
Abbie Chatfield was emotional while watching her boyfriend on stage. Credit: Paramount+Keli Holiday dedicates his win to his girlfriend, the inspiration behind his hit song. Credit: Paramount+
In a recent interview with Stellar, Chatfield revealed she was “so emotional” the first time Holiday played the song for her.
“I was also there a lot of the time that he wrote it,” she said during their joint chat.
The pair first met on Chatfield’s radio show four years ago, when both were still in other relationships.
“I had to mute him on Instagram because I had such a big crush on him that I couldn’t bear to see his posts,” she said.
“For two years he was fully muted. Then he was like, ‘I want to be your boyfriend’.
“So I unmuted him.”
In the interview they disclosed that Holiday’s latest risqué song More includes audio of the pair engaged in a racy session.
“It’s funny because the bedsheets were covering the microphone completely so none of it was audible,” Holiday said.
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