Kate Ritchie’s naked habit mocked by radio co-stars

“You can’t talk about this!” Kate Ritchie has been busted on-air for her rather unexpected naked habit.

Kate Ritchie has been outed for her unexpected naked household habit.

The Sydney radio host had privately told her co-stars Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald and Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli about her proclivity to sunbake nude in her backyard, which the duo decided to reveal on-air during their Nova show Tuesday.

“On a sunny day, Ms Ritchie might actually take the kit off for a bit of sunbaking,” Wippa began, prompting a mortified Ritchie to say, “You can’t talk about this!”

Kate Ritchie's co-stars Fitzy and Wippa revealed her nude habit on-air.

The star was mortified.

The conversation starter prompted even more revelations about Ritchie’s risky weekend business, which it turns out, spans beyond sunbaking.

Wippa continued, “When you told me that you’d been in the backyard painting I went, ‘you didn’t do with the clothes off did you?’ [It was] a throw away line as a joke. Matter of fact, she did!

“So Kate Ritchie painted the back fence completely nude!”

Explaining herself, Ritchie said she didn’t initially set out to do household chores without clothes on.

Ritchie eventually owned up to her naked habit.

“I’d done some gardening. I pulled out cactuses and things. And then I thought, ‘Oh god, I’m filthy. But I want to finish the paint. I want to do the painting today.’

“So I just thought, get your gear off. Get all this dirt off, the soil and stuff from the old succulents.

“And then I thought, it’s just me here. It’s the holidays. I’m a grown up. This is my house, and I’m painting because I deserve it.”

The former Home and Away actress said she technically wasn’t entirely nude for the painting session – she accessorised her birthday suit with an iconic Aussie hat.

“I had my Alf Stewart hat on,” she said, clearly unfazed about the potential of nosy neighbours.

“You can’t see into the yard unless you’re in the apartments up at the top,” she added.

Ritchie lives in Sydney’s eastern suburbs with her young daughter Mae.