Tracy Grimshaw celebrates 30 years on Aussie TV

Tracy Grimshaw is celebrating 30 years on Australian television.

The 51-year-old Aussie television personality, who is best known as the host of A Current Affair, will receive a tribute on Channel Nine on Wednesday night to mark the anniversary of her joining the network in 1981.

Grimshaw told the Herald Sun: "I can hardly believe it's been that many years since I turned up at the GTV9 newsroom, wearing a beret and an outfit I'd sewn myself, ready for my close-up.

"I thought I'd hang in for as long as I could before they realised they'd picked a dud and shuffle me back off to suburban newspapers."

Grimshaw revealed last year that she does not regret choosing her career over marriage and children, adding: "Age is almost irrelevant these days - almost. I think it's a shame when women sometimes feel uncomfortable about disclosing their age.

"The only way you can make that discomfort go away and the only way to address that weird stigma is just to stare it down, to refuse to be cowed by it or play by those rules."

Grimshaw was forced to defend herself in 2009 when celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay referred to her as an "ugly old pig" and a "lesbian". She responded to the jibes by labelling him an "arrogant narcissist bully".

Ramsay later apologised to her and insisted that his words had been "blown out of context".