The chance encounter at a Greensborough shop that led Tracy Grimshaw to journalism

Tracy Grimshaw has been beamed into our living rooms for four decades, covering some of the most explosive interviews in the country. But she’ll be sitting in the A Current Affair host chair for the final time this week after a decision to step down after 17 years.

The veteran journalist revealed she very nearly didn’t become a journalist. It was only a chance encounter with a teacher when she was selling jeans in Greensborough that set her on this path.

“I wanted to work at the zoo,” Grimshaw told Neil Mitchell.

Press PLAY below to hear how Tracy became a journalist + her memories of the TV ‘wild frontier’ of yesteryear