As does the identity of the person who filmed it, who reportedly only did so after hearing a commotion and then seeing who was involved: a shirtless, limping Clarke, who had apparently pulled a hamstring, and Stefanovic.

Daily Telegraph editor Ben English is an associate of Anthony Bell, Clarke’s close friend and business partner who also appears in the video. The paper reported Bell attempted – unsuccessfully – to defuse the situation.

Bell, who once enjoyed media attention, featured in his own tabloid blitzkrieg when his high-profile marriage to former television beauty Kelly Landry imploded. These days he prefers a lower profile.

Similarly, Stefanovic also features prominently in the video. He is married to Jade Yarbrough’s older sister Jasmine, a relationship which created its own publicity tsunami for the television personality after his marriage to Cassandra Thorburn ended abruptly in 2016.

The breakfast TV personality has attempted to keep a solid distance from the scandal, refusing to comment while his rivals at Seven’s Sunrise had a field day.

Stefanovic is understood to be deeply upset after the incident, having considered Clarke one of his closest friends.

He introduced Clarke to Jade Yarbrough. In the video the strain between the men is abundantly clear.

“I am shattered that because of my actions I’ve drawn women of class and integrity, and my mates, into this situation,” Clarke, in crisis management mode, later told News Corp. “I own this fully and am the only one at fault.”

Word of the footage’s existence had been circulating a day after the public incident, when PS understands Stefanovic and his bosses at Nine were alerted.

Edwards, the “other woman” in the scenario, who is well versed in the dark arts of tabloid press, spent Wednesday night at the Elton John concert as the story went viral.

She poured fuel on the scandal by releasing her own statement: “This is not my circus. Yet again, Michael in his true nature has not taken responsibility for his actions and I was blatantly lied to.”

She left little room for doubt, but Wednesday night would not end well for Edwards. She took a nasty fall in the rain after the concert, bringing to an end what had been a monumentally lousy day for a group of people who previously appeared to have it all.

Geyer gone but not forgotten

The accolades have deservedly flowed for Australia’s “Queen of Soul” Renee Geyer after her death on Tuesday, and as her good friend and former publicist Annie Wright told PS this week: “If only she was around to hear it”.

Therein lies one of the great quandaries of Geyer’s half-century in the limelight: she never truly understood or believed how much she was admired.

She was so well regarded that Paul Kelly happily obliged when Geyer’s loyal, long-time manager Kathy Nolan organised for him to sing as she lay in a coma in the ICU. He serenaded her with a moving rendition of Heading In The Right Direction.

Wright was at Geyer’s bedside when she died in Geelong this week. They have been firm friends since their time working together in the early 1970s.

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Wright is working on a documentary about Australian female singers, from Dame Nellie Melba and Olivia Newton-John to Amy Shark.

“Last year I was telling her about the documentary. As I was talking it up, she stopped me, asking if she was going to get a little mention at all. I was so taken aback. ‘Of course!’ I told her, ‘You are a living bloody legend’. She genuinely felt she had been forgotten,” Wright said.

Indeed, it had been a financially challenging road for Geyer, who, despite years of recording and performing, had sold her home in Melbourne and was renting in Geelong.

Music writer Bruce Elder summed it up best when he wrote in a review of one of her shows in 1993: “Watching Geyer, it is hard not to feel that Australia is careless with its talent. She was so much a part of the soundtrack which defined growing up in the mid-1970s. She has not lost her voice, or her stage presence, yet we who live in a disposable society are prepared to forget her. We have no ability or desire to nurture and sustain our stars when the pop roundabout stops.”

Candid Candice

Champion ironwoman, unrelenting tabloid target, cricket WAG, mum ... Candice Warner’s story has been told by just about everyone else except her.

So, her upcoming memoir – Running Strong – promises to be a decent read if the publisher’s promo is any gauge: “Candid, raw and uplifting, Candice tells it straight”.

In 2017 Warner recounted to Lizzie Wilson in the Australian Women’s Weekly the moment she was publicly humiliated during the Australian Cricket Team’s tour of South Africa, when locals wore Sonny Bill Williams masks, taunting her husband David Warner about his wife’s infamous toilet tryst: “I felt like a dirty, horrible person – it was like I cracked in half. It was a deliberate and very personal attack and I felt so ashamed of my past. People were staring and pointing at me, but I had to put on a brave face for our girls.”

Not only did she put on a brave face, last year she made a spectacular career comeback competing in her first ironwoman competition in 10 years. The 37-year-old mother of three won six medals in the masters category.

Margot stops traffic

Paramount Pictures upped the pizzazz levels at Monday night’s State Theatre premiere of Margot Robbie’s new epic Babylon. There were dazzling podium dancers, a full brass band, courtesy bar, free popcorn, and a theatre full of freeloaders.

Robbie stopped traffic on Market Street, valiantly darting across the busy road to greet fans and talk up the film about old Hollywood, but there was no hiding the fact it had already been marked a box office turkey in the US.

After four weeks Babylon had only earned $US14.83 million ($21.3 million), a fair way off the reported $US250 million it needs to start making a profit.

Babylon had its moments. Robbie gave a spirited performance but, at three hours and 10 minutes, it was a case of babbling on as restless theatregoers started leaving before the film had even ended.

Censori family’s lips sealed

A week after it was reported Kanye West (Ye), 45, had wed his employee – former Melbourne architect Bianca Censori (who looks an awful lot like the polarising rapper’s former wife Kim Kardashian) – and not much more has been discovered about the 27-year-old Australian beauty.

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However, when PS managed to track down her Melbourne family this week, Leo Censori said the family had been under strict instructions “not to talk to the press”.

He is listed as the managing director of Cashbox Amusements, a Melbourne-based arcade games company. It turns out to be something of a family business for several generations of the Censori clan, who migrated to Australia from Italy in 1960.

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