Tracy Grimshaw admits drunk, naked hallway moment at Crown Casino after Logies

A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw. Source: Supplied

Annette Sharp, The Daily Telegraph, reports

Notoriously private A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw has sought to put the record straight concerning a naked hallway appearance at Crown Casino.

Speaking to 2DAY's Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O, the usually straitlaced Grimshaw confirmed she once drunkenly ventured naked into a Crown hotel hallway after a Logies ceremony believing she had stepped into her shower.

Describing it as her "Karl Stefanovic moment" - reference to the Today host famously appearing tipsy on air after a Logies celebration - Grimshaw confirmed during her run as Today host alongside Steve Liebmann she had fronted the show heavily fortified after knocking back tequila shots with her former boss, James Packer, at the Logies.

"I did do that, yeah," she admitted during an interview in which Sandilands nudged unsubstantiated lesbian rumours.

Asked if she was "maggot" following the 1998 Logies, she responded: "Yeah I was, James and I used to do tequila shots back before he was married."

"Suddenly it was quarter to four in the morning, and I had done a few tequila shots and I was doing the Today Show that morning"

At 3.45am she decided to have a shower before the hair and make-up artists arrived at 4am to prepare her for her morning on national television, she recalled.

"I thought I am going to have a shower and get ready because the girls are going to be here in 15 minutes to get me all shooshed for the Today Show. So I took the dress off I was wearing and the finery and pulled out all the bits and bobs from my hair and went to have a shower and found myself in the hallway. At Crown. Yup."

Sandilands saw the reference to the hair and makeup "girls" as a chance to raise gay rumours: "And there's where these lesbian rumours start from, you're all drunk girls, yeah yeah, I understand how this all bubbles into fantasy."

Grimshaw also denied ever having a romantic relationship with Packer: "No not ever. Nope. Just did the odd tequila shot."

Actor's bid to mock the Logies vote

Channel 10's Underground: The Julian Assange Story stars Jordan Raskopoulos, Alex Williams and Callan McAulliffe. Pic supplied/Channel 10. Source: Herald Sun

The Daily Telegraph reports

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

The Herald Sun reports that Jordan Raskopoulos, who had a supporting role in Underground: The Julian Assange Story, ridiculed the TV awards show on an online forum and has vowed to reward those who 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 a plea to the internet to vote for me for my own gain. This is an opportunity to get a man from the internet on to live television to mock an Australian institution (and potentially ruin my career)."

Yesterday Raskopoulos said he was not a huge fan of the awards show."If I win it will be one of the greatest, weirdest speeches ever."

TV Week could not be reached for comment.