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."

Sassy Susan Boyle is coming to Australia

Scottish singer Susan Boyle...is coming to Australia. Picture: Sony Music Source: Supplied

Kathy McCabe, Music Editor of The Daily Telegraph, reports

SUPERSTAR singer Susan Boyle will visit Australia for the first time next month to launch her new record Someone To Watch Over Me.

The shy yet sassy Boyle, a Scottish villager who captured the world's attention with her rendition of I Dreamed A Dream on Britain's Got Talent two years ago will perform in Sydney during a whirlwind promotional tour from November 7.

"I'll have a wee cuddle of a koala if I can," she said.

"Coming to Australia will be really exciting. I feel like a wee lassie in a sweetie shop."

SuBo, as she has been affectionately nicknamed, struggled with her overnight success and the rigours of promoting her talent around the world, cancelling her first Australian trip last year due to exhaustion.

She said she now felt more confident and less overwhelmed by her instant fame.

"Susan Boyle the performer now is more confident and mature," she said.

"I was inexperienced when I began - they feel like two very different personas.

"I think the song on the new album This Will Be The Year reflects that - I will show them how I've grown from a wee scared girl to a fully fledged performer."

Having sold 14 million copies of her first two records in just 14 months, Boyle is set to knock Adele off the top of the charts worldwide with her third album Someone To Watch Over Me.

It shows a more adventurous side of the 50-year-old vocalist as she tackles alternative pop hits including Depeche Mode's Enjoy The Silence and Tears For Fears' Mad World.

"They are away from the normal ballpark and I thought I would try something a bit more revealing, if you like," she said.

Her emotionally charged version of Unchained Melody, which last rocketed up the charts thanks to the movie Ghost, already has both critics and her fans raving.

"It's a very powerful song and you really have to look at your own life to reflect that back into the song. You have to feel it," she said.

Despite her newfound fame and fortune allowing her to buy a "posh house" in her Scottish village of Blackburn, Boyle remains living in the home she grew up in.

Her ambitions outside of singing are to learn the piano and to ride horses.

"Singing is my sanctuary; it's a different world, my bubble where no one can harm me," she said.

Boyle, who hopes to reunite with extended family here, said she is also looking forward to meeting the fans whose letters and emails have proven inspirational in choosing the songs for her new record, which is released on November 4.

She will perform on television on Today and The X Factor during her visit.