Wayne Carey ducks into strip club for meet-and-greet - as he moves on from pub toilet controversy

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Wayne Carey smiled broadly as he walked into a strip club in Geelong on Friday night as the AFL great held a meet-and-greet appearance at the unusual venue.
The former North Melbourne premiership captain was snapped walking into After Dark Gentleman's Club, where attendees were enjoying pole dancing at a venue self-described as a 'realm of seduction'.
Carey, whose off-field controversies have created more headlines than even his brilliant playing career, had described the venue as 'classy' in justifying his appearance, describing the women that work there as 'highly skilled'.
'This is just another way of creating jobs,' he said on his podcast earlier in the week.
It comes after Carey outed himself as the footy star who appeared in a viral video that was the talk of Melbourne last month.
The footage showed the 54-year-old emerging from the toilets at Melbourne's trendy Toorak Cellars bar shortly after Kate Aston, a Melbourne marketing and communications executive, made her exit.
A female voice was heard saying 'we've got you on camera' as the woman walked past, before asking 'What's he doing in there?' and remarking, 'She looks embarrassed.'
Carey said he contacted Victoria Police over the video.
Carey is seen entering the stip club where he said he'd stay for hours
'Being filmed without consent coming out of a public bathroom and then filming a complete stranger within a minute coming out of that public bathroom is NOT OK.. Then the persons who are filming adding their disgusting narrative and posting it on social media ruins lives …Enough,' he wrote on X.
'I've gone through disbelief, sadness, I've gone through anger.
'This woman has been thrown into this just because I could kick a footy.
'And you've got two vile, disturbing, probably p**sed women who want to do this to another woman.
'That's all they were doing, they were slut-shaming another woman.
'If two men had done that they would be raked over hot coals, it would be the biggest story going around.
'But because it's two women doing it to another woman … you don't know what's going on, this other woman has had all sorts of stuff going in her life, I've since found out.
'You talk about vile and disgusting, what they've done and who they have affected by a few sh**s and giggles drinking their chardonnay, sitting up there.
'I'm not going to name them because that would be as pathetic as what they are. I'll let the law take care of it.'
He left Australia to get away from the furore, but refused to specify where he'd jetted off to, saying, 'No one knows where you are, and where I am, who I am. Just a beautiful part of the world.'
The toilet incident came decades on from his infamous 2002 sexual liaison with Kelli Stevens, the wife of his then teammate Anthony Stevens, in a toilet at another teammate's house party which ended his time at North Melbourne.
In 2004 he was arrested by police in Las Vegas, in 2007 in Miami, and in 2008 in Port Melbourne.
In 2022 he was expelled from Crown Casino in Perth when he was found to have a plastic bag containing white powder, which he explained was crushed anti-inflammatories he required.
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