Tracy Grimshaw, 63, is making the shock move to reality TV in a complete departure from her 42-year career in TV journalism to host what insiders call a “shiny floor show”, which will be filmed in front of a studio audience.
While Nine is keeping all the details under wraps, the show will have a reality TV format, and like The Voice or Dancing With The Stars, will involve contestants performing live, and it will be hosted by Tracy, alongside a co-host whose identity is yet to be finalised.
“The deals are still being done but it’s well in progress,” TV Blackbox’s Rob McKnight exclusively divulges to Woman’s Day.
“Tracy is definitely doing two shows next year. One of them is an interview type series, but the second one is something completely different for her. She will be co-hosting this show and it will be a reality shiny floor show.”
Tracy Grimshaw expressed gratitude towards her A Current Affair team in an Instagram post, “It takes a village, and this is part of mine here in London.”
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Nine recently announced that Tracy, who filmed her last episode for A Current Affair in November last year, would return to a star role next year, refusing to reveal any more than it was a “new” project.
The network is also keeping quiet about the exact style of interview show that Tracy will host, but Rob says he hopes it’s similar in style to the various shows hosted by late, great British TV star Michael Parkinson, who Tracy interviewed and admired.
“Tracy doing a Parkinson-style show would be fabulous and she would work really well off a live audience,” he says.
Life on the farm can wait, Tracy Grimshaw has bagged not one but two TV shows.
(Credit: Instagram)“Tracy has this credibility that a lot of people would give their left arm to have. The interviews she did on ACA were master-classes with a whole range of people. It’s a perfect fit for her.”
He predicts that Tracy’s new interview show will be a short series of six to eight episodes to allow her the time to also work on her new reality TV series.
It is thought that both Tracy’s new shows will air at either 7.30pm or 8.30pm to provide something new and fresh for viewers.
