Sydney: Fraud Squad police here have stormed the set of Channel Nine’s Tipping Point and arrested the popular game show’s host and former tennis star Todd Woodbridge.

My contacts in the NSW police force tell me that since his arrest at 3pm yesterday, Woodbridge has been charged with 124 counts of falsely claiming a benefit – trying to make the show more interesting – by wilfully convincing diverse persons – the contestants – that the timing and or the force applied to the button had any effect whatsoever on the speed of the token down the machine or where it ended up on the shelf below.

One very senior cop told me that when the show first began several years ago, Woodbridge frequently made the claim that the timing and pressure applied to the button were important to the chances of contestants walking away with the $20,000 jackpot and the former gold-medal Olympian and multi-Open champion was told to desist or action would be taken.

I understand that at the time Woodbridge was shown statements by leading Australian physicists and mathematical experts, quite a lot of other people with good common sense and a 95-year-old man who used to run those penny slot machines on Australian piers and jetties way back when that whether the token hurtled its way down the machine and became a winona rider or took forever and sometimes looked like it was going to get stuck half way down was totally in the lap of the gravity gods.

Woodbridge toed the line for quite some time and stopped spraying such nonsense but started it up again a few months back. Maybe he simply forgot the earlier warnings. As an old playing partner of his, I did ring Todd up and warn him that old bad habits had returned but unfortunately he kept up the practice and sadly the law pounced yesterday.

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