BRYNNE EXCLUSIVE: “I’M NOT A CHEAP MONEY GRUBBING SLUT!”

Colourful media personality and intellectual heavyweight Brynne Edelsten has lashed out at salacious allegations published in reputable editorial journal The Woman’s Day.

According to Woman’s Day magazine, the shy and unassuming star of reality TV show Brynne: My Bedazzled Life began her “career” as a stripper a nightspot called “Skin Cabaret” in the small town of Scottsdale, Arizona.

According to the “cabaret’s” web site, the club was was named as “the winner of the Best Club in The Southwest Region” in 2008 at the “Adult Nightclub & Exotic Dancer Awards Show.”

Woman’s Day reports that former colleague and one-time lover Eddie “Spaghetti” Carlee explained that Brynne made a living dancing in clubs including Skin Cabaret. “I was the one who got her into stripping,” Eddie said.

“I first met her at a club called the Cat Eye Lounge. I was a bartender there and I got to know her. Then I started bartending at Skin Cabaret, and if you recruited girls you got money, so I asked her if she’d come and do it. I was in love with her – even though we only had sex once, I was in love with her. But she wanted to find a rich guy who would marry her.”

“For a while she dated a rich guy here named Eric Crown but it didn’t work out,” Carlee told the mag.

It also quotes a former LA landlord, Elizabeth Rhee, who said Brynne called her one day to say she was moving to Oz.

“She was getting married and suddenly she had money to burn because she wired me money to pay these guys to move her stuff,” Rhee told the magazine.

Brynne met 69-year-old Edelsten in Las Vegas and within weeks had moved to Melbourne with him.

However Brynne has hit back at the shocking claims, denying that she was ever a stripper.

“In response [to the story], I have questions,” Brynne said in a statement.

“If I was a stripper, and I’m not, what’s the crime?”

In response, Woman’s Day editor Fiona Connolly said: “Out of respect to Brynne, we edited a lot of material too explicit to publish.”