Australian rules: Carey's humour off-key

Former AFL star Wayne Carey has become entangled in another off-field controversy, after sharing intimate details of his well-documented sexual exploits at a Gold Coast function.

Carey left a crowd of around 200 guests at a sportsman's lunch at the Surfers Paradise Demons Football Club stunned when he opened his speech with a joke about his affair with a team-mate's wife.

Carey, who retired at the end of last season, quit the Kangaroos midway through 2002 after revelations of an affair with Kelli Stevens, the wife of Kangaroos midfielder Anthony Stevens, surfaced.

A businessman who attended the function said Carey "tried to be funny but it just didn't work".

"He broke the ice by making fun of the situation of being in the toilet with Kelli, that he would not have been in trouble unless she followed him in."

A Demons spokesman said Carey, who last week announced he and his wife, Sally, were expecting their first baby, was unlikely to be invited back.