Newsreader Tracey Spicer confesses to sex with a hairbrush in highly personal self-appraisal

HEARING how newsreader Tracey Spicer once used a humble hairbrush — that undersung but essential tool of grooming for many — might just tie you in knots.

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HEARING how newsreader Tracey Spicer once used the humble hairbrush — an undersung but essential tool of grooming for many — might just tie you in knots.

The prominent media personality has caused ripples with an incredibly candid speech for ABC Confession Booth.

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Presenter A.H. Cayley introduces the 47-year-old as “a poised and professional journalist”, then hints there is “a lot more to Tracey Spicer than you think — maybe even a little too much”.

In a frank and at-times hilarious self-expose, Spicer then speaks to a live audience, outlining how she bared herself in a different sense last year during a TEDx, removing her make-up as she made several points about women and the “beauty myth”.

She contends that she is attempting another striptease, not involving seven veils, but of the seven-deadly-sins variety.

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Picture: Supplied

Spicer speaks first of lust, which she first encountered in the early 1980s.

“My first, let’s call him Harry ... on top, he was all sharp and spiky. Down below, all hard and shiny.

“You guessed it — he was my hairbrush. Oh, the nights of unbridled passion in my bedroom, walls plastered with Adam Ant, Rick Springfield and Leif Garrett.”

Spicer says she then discarded Harry for an Irish (“very Catholic”) boyfriend, with whom she had an unfortunate incident involving one of her fingernails nicking his foreskin.

The frank and fervent confessions continue with recounts of various suitors who followed, including a man she called Banana Dick and two women, one of whom asked her at a sensitive moment: “Ah, you’ve never done this before, have you?”

“I suppose you could say I was a failed lesbian.”

Not all the tales are sex related. Blaming the “stultifying” era of Bjelke Peterson’s Queensland, the wrongdoing continued: she once stole Valium from a friend’s mother, ate a death lily in a Brisbane nightclub (“because it was there”) and smoked so much cannabis she had to “eat her body weight in Doritos”.

Mother-of-two Spicer is an ambassador for groups including ActionAid, World Vision and Life’s Little Treasures.

You might, however, never watch her on Sky News — or brush your hair — in the same manner again.