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I’ve always liked Tracy Grimshaw. She seems very nice. She does this thing sometimes with her eyes when she’s saying good night at the end of the show, it’s a little squint, it’s like she’s trying to make friends with an animal.

She’s into horses, and I’ve often wondered if hers watch her when she’s on, if they hear her voice and immediately start paying attention to the television, so that’s why she gives her reassuring blinking message. Unless they don’t watch A Current Affair. Horses are very smart.

So I can’t tell you how disappointed I was when Tracy said she’d agreed in advance not to ask Gordon Ramsay anything about his marriage, and whether he’d been shagging that other woman behind his wife’s back for all those years, meeting in hotels and sneaking around.

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It was the week when Tracy Grimshaw decided to further her ambitions of becoming the next Darryn Hinch (shame, shame Gordon, shame), and Gordon Ramsay furthered his goal of pissing off the entirety of the female population of Australia once and for all.

The coverage of the slanging match between celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay and A Current Affairs Host Tracy Grimshaw spread like that flu thing that has been pushed off the front pages by Gordon Ramsay and Tracy Grimshaw. Even the Prime Minister got involved.

It was on the front pages of newspapers, television news, talkback radio and all over The Punch.

We loved this falling out and so as did you by the looks of it.  There were some great posts on the fight canvassing issues of sexism, swearing and the deeper issues of how a man who looks like a Muppet Show remainder can attack anyones appearance.

It provoked wild debate among readers who both deplored Ramsay’s behaviour and those who thought that Grimshaw as host of ACA had no place lecturing people on public etiquette.

But Grimshaw’s editorialising has a long way to go to matching the master: Darryn Hunch aka Steve Vizard’s great Fast Forward character.

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