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'Scumbags': Shane Warne sees red at media after shutting charity

Amy Croffey

Cricket, women and outbursts are what retired sporting hero Shane Warne has become synonymous with in recent years, and he certainly played up to those traits at the swanky Alfa Romeo Portsea Polo in Melbourne last weekend.

Despite the event being swarmed by media, the King of Spin was not best pleased when approached by Fairfax Media inside the Peroni marquee, snapping: "I'm not talking to you lot."

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The Project host Waleed Aly gets a frosty response when he asks Shane Warne about the audit of his charity. Courtesy The Project, 6.30pm weekdays on Ten

This reporter thanked him and backed away, however, moments later he stormed over to where I was positioned and falsely accused me of taking pictures of him while he was talking to comedian, Andy Lee. (I was instead SnapChatting a video of the ultra-glamorous former Victoria's Secret model Shanina Shaik, who was posing nearby.)

"Fairfax are scumbags, you are all scumbags," he said.

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This reporter replied, "Ah Shane, come on, there's no need to be like that," to which he stormed off.

Just a few days before, Warne agreed to shut down his 11-year old charity, the Shane Warne Foundation, to avoid it being potentially stripped of its registration by the state government regulator.

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Consumer Affairs Victoria director Simon Cohen announced the regulator had completed its 11-month investigation into charity and noted it considered deregistering the charity because of the "low proportion of funds raised that were distributed to beneficiaries in recent years".

Fairfax Media has previously revealed the foundation has been running at a financial loss, donating just 11¢ to 32¢ of every dollar raised each year on behalf of sick and underprivileged children since 2011.

The CAV cleared the charity of any wrongdoing, while a CAV source expressed concerns that a senior agency official had fawned over Warne and board member Eddie McGuire, who signed an autograph and posed for selfies with department bureaucrats during a meeting at its headquarters in December.

While a chat with Fairfax Media was out of the question, the 47-year-old divorced father-of-three, who was accompanied by eldest daughter Brooke, 19, is still not short on charm.

The cricket great-turned-commentator, who has had a number of high-profile dalliances under his belt, including Playboy model Emily Scott and Geoffrey Edelsten's ex-wife Brynne Gordon, showed off his friendly side in the marquee by striding up for a chat with women nearby.

Some he would have already known from Melbourne's tight-knit social scene, others were thrilled to chat with the bowler with many queuing up for a selfie, however, not everyone was impressed with his brass approach.

Two women seemed to turn the cold shoulder to Warnie, and when asked why by Fairfax Media, they explained: "We were afraid we'd be pictured with him."

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Despite not yet knowing the cast of The Real Housewives of Sydney, which will premiere on February 26 on Arena, Gamble Breaux, 44, has described her Sydney counterparts as so "feral" they will make The Real Housewives of Melbourne "look like pussycats".

It's an opinion she is basing on her past experience of living in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.

"Sydney women, if they are gold diggers, they are the worst. They will cut your throat. My experience is they can be the most slanderous, evil, and calculated," she told Fairfax Media at the Alfa Romeo Portsea Polo.

"They'll do anything to destroy you and get your man. Trust me, I know."

Breaux said her experience was so daunting that she upped and left for Melbourne where "it is much easier to live".

When asked if she believes the RHOS will act in a similar way to those she once knew, she said she doesn't know, but maintained they are all "feral".

Despite her strident comments on her Sydney counterparts, Breaux said she regrets her slagging match with RHOS castmate, Lisa Oldfield, who is married to One Nation co-founder and former Pauline Hanson campaign manager David Oldfield.

Oldfield referred to Melbourne as a "also-ran city," so Breaux retaliated by calling her a "stupid old cow" and said she had "a better looking [floor] mop" than her.

"I am sorry I fought with Lisa because I have inside intel and apparently she is quite reasonable compared to the others. I think she'd be the one I'd get on the most with after what I have heard about the other girls," Breaux said.

Not wanting to spoil the show, she said, "the two you don't expect will be the worst," but would not be drawn further as the cast have been warned not to discuss a fracas involving Victoria Rees on a group trip to Singapore.

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