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Tracy Grimshaw calls magazine article “Absolute crap”

"They have to make this stuff up, because none of us will actually talk to them any more."

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Tracy Grimshaw has taken to social media to respond to a gossip article in New Idea which suggested she is making demands for the upcoming Nine headquarters in North Sydney.

Nine is moving from Willoughby to the 1 Denison Tower, expected to be completed later in 2020.

According to New Idea, unnamed sources suggested the ACA host “is said to have requested Nine bosses build a secret lift from the car park so that she – and others such as Today’s  Allison Langdon – can go straight into hair and makeup when they arrive without being seen by the general public in North Sydney.”

On Instagram she wrote, “Absolute crap in New Idea this week. I wouldn’t know anything about the lifts in the new building. Have had zero input, made zero requests. I come in every day with no makeup, go shopping with no makeup, get on planes with no makeup.

“I once did ACA with no hair or makeup in Brisbane after wading through flood waters all day in 100% humidity. A Sunday paper gossip columnist devoted her entire column to how poorly groomed I was. My hairdresser has been doing my hair for more than 20 years. She does other people’s hair too. Lucky for all of us because mine needs all the help it can get.

“I don’t have daily or even monthly wardrobe consultations. Have managed to dress myself since I was about 4yo. And as for seeing myself as some big star? Spare me.

“The weekly womens mags treat women like morons. Both their readers, and those of us they use to sell copies. They have to make this stuff up, because none of us will actually talk to them any more. That’s a good business model isn’t it? Lie to your market, and piss off your main source of content.”

In 2018 she posted a make-up free shot in response to paparazzi trying the snap her but a photographer claimed ACA also adopted tabloid tactics.

New Idea is published by Pacific Magazines which Seven West Media is in the process of selling to Bauer Media.

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  1. New Idea (No idea) it’s just a fairly tale for women who want to believe, Harry & Megan have split up or Some celebrity got caught with no make up on eating a taco.

    2. You have won the internet (as well as comment of the year on TV Tonight) for that comment. We have a shortage of toilet paper, but I personally wouldn’t “honour” these magazines with my waste (yes, I won’t use these magazines as toilet paper).

  4. I gave up reading magazines years ago. The grab titles on some of their front covers seem sueable as no other information they come up with ever seems to be said anywhere else.

    1. This week’s stories are a joke, including Meghan’s alleged “secret child”. Sometimes I wonder why do they pick on certain people and not others (they always pick on Meghan but not Kate). I am not in the target audience of these magazines, but I urge everyone to boycott these magazines. And let’s not forget that A Current Affair is no better than the magazines that Tracy is bagging on about.

    1. Amen. This is shameless hypocrisy from Tracy Grimshaw, who hosts a show that is all rubbish (like a dispute over a fence) and no current affairs.

      And sadly, it is not April 1 yet (this is not David’s traditional joke for April Fools Day), but it will be in a couple of weeks.

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