'H&A' star 'paid for strippers'

Home and Away star Jodi Gordon has regularly paid for strip club dances and is preparing to quit her role on the popular soap, it has been alleged.

The sensational claims, to be published in Australia tomorrow by the magazine Woman's Day, include that the embattled actress paid for private, nude and erotic dances by female dancers in a Sydney strip club, and plans to quit Home and Away to pursue a career overseas.

It is claimed that Gordon was on a first-name basis with many of the strippers at the club and would regularly pay $85 for private erotic dances.

"Jodi is a really friendly girl and got on well with a lot of the girls," an employee of the strip club told the magazine. "She was on first-name terms with some of the dancers and was extra friendly because she was out of it. Jodi once paid for a girl to dance for her for four hours."

The startling accusations come just weeks after Gordon was embroiled in a bizarre cocaine scandal that reportedly ended her relationship to Australian media heir Ryan Stokes.