.The swift rise of humble Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, capped the 2024 Rising Celebrity award as aspect of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as end up being merely the second Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Rising Star award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were effectively before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who completed the top five.Watch the greatest insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with pro evaluation and every activity till the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE ACQUIRING RATHER. Free of cost as well as classified assistance telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, with only Abbey Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong ahead optimal ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 votes and also Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually another Geelong draught good deal after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He played only 7 video games and kicked pair of objectives around his first two seasons along with the nightclub. However he is actually ended up being an essential of the Cats' finest 22 this time, booting 21 objectives and also balancing 17.7 disposals coming from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the warm early-season favourite to win the honor after West Shore's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid start to the year.But the duo became unacceptable to win the Increasing Celebrity after they were actually both suspended for cases in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the season stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins profits|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 times before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong train Chris Scott stated Dempsey will be a deserving however modest victor." He will acknowledge that there are actually a couple of really well-performed players that are actually disqualified. But that should not alter the way that he really feels about the way he is actually dealt with his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I enjoy that as a coach when you possess players that alter the way you consider things, even subtly." Ollie's merely among the best confident, happy people you'll come across." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pussy-cats)-- 52 votes2. George Wardlaw (North Melbourne)-- 43 votes3. Kai Lohmann (Brisbane Lions)-- 21 votes4. Darcy Wilson (Street Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 votes.