'Home and Away' star returns to face music

Home and Away actress Jodi Gordon yesterday returned to work after a week's holiday in Los Angeles.

The Australian star took the break to escape allegations that she is a strip club regular in Sydney.

The rumours followed news that she had been found by police cowering in the flat of a suspected gangster on June 2. She allegedly admitted that drugs had been used and was subsequently dumped by her TV heir boyfriend Ryan Stokes.

Confidential reported that Gordon admitted to Channel Seven bosses that she has been to strip joint Badabing "five or six times" but denied that she frequents the venue.

Gordon is expected to join her fellow cast members on Thursday night to celebrate the soap's 21st birthday. It will be her first public outing since the scandal first surfaced.

The actress was filmed emerging from Sydney Airport but declined to comment to the waiting media.