EXCLUSIVE: The inside story of Tracy Vo's sudden 出発 from the Today show after just four months - as she returns to Nine News Perth

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Newsreader Tracy Vo's 出発 from the Today show?（機の）カム as a surprise to テレビ視聴者s, but her 同僚s at Channel Nine had 明らかに 心配するd it for weeks.

The 新聞記者／雑誌記者, 37, 発表するd?on Tuesday she was?returning to?Perth?to be closer to her parents, just four months after moving to Sydney to join the breakfast program.

多重の sources say she took advantage of a 条項 in her 契約 that gave her the 選択 to return to Nine News Perth within six months if she 'wasn't happy' at Today.

She is believed to have made the 決定／判定勝ち（する） after feeling ますます 孤立するd from her family in Western Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic.?

No surprise:?Newsreader Tracy Vo's 出発 from the Today show （機の）カム as a surprise to テレビ視聴者s, but her 同僚s at Channel Nine had 明らかに 心配するd it for weeks

One insider said: 'Tracy never gunned for the 職業. She was headhunted and brought out from Perth. Word is they begged her to take it.

'Everybody at Nine, 含むing [長，率いる of news] Darren Wick, thinks she's 広大な／多数の／重要な, and they were all 確信して she would stay in Sydney after her first six months.'

Another source said: 'She's very popular at Nine and 井戸／弁護士席-liked in Perth ? which is partly why they put her on Today, to try and attract more テレビ視聴者s from there.'

Emotional 出口: Daily Mail Australia understands Tracy had a 条項 in her 契約 that gave her the 選択 to return to Nine News Perth within six months if she 'wasn't happy' at Today

'She never settled in Sydney':?多重の 産業 sources （人命などを）奪う，主張する it was Tracy's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to leave Today and she wasn't 軍隊d out by 管理／経営. Pictured (left to 権利) with Karl Stefanovic, Allison Langdon, Alex Cullen and Brooke Boney

But Tracy 恐らく had trouble 'settling in' after arriving in Sydney in January and told 同僚s she 恐れるd she 'couldn't 切り開く／タクシー／不正アクセス it' on the Today show.?

A third source said: 'Tracy never settled in Sydney. She is very family orientated, and her family is in Perth. She was living in 一時的な accommodation and hadn't 調印するd a 賃貸し（する）, which 示唆するs she always had Perth in the 支援する of her mind.'

Tracy is said to have 'freaked out' as the coronavirus pandemic より悪くするd and 明言する／公表する 国境s の近くにd, 誘発するing her 決定／判定勝ち（する） to return home.

Family first: Tracy 'freaked out' as the coronavirus pandemic より悪くするd and 明言する／公表する 国境s の近くにd, 誘発するing her 決定／判定勝ち（する） to return home to be with her family. Pictured with her father?

One source said: 'The person doing her old 職業 [at Nine News Perth] was only 一時的な, so she asked to go 支援する to that, and Nine 許すd her to.'

Another 追加するd: 'She went to Perth for a holiday, but COVID-19 blew up and then it became a more 永久の thing to 移転 支援する to the P erth newsroom.'

Daily Mail Australia understands Tracy may 結局 return to the Today show, but if she does 'it will be her 決定／判定勝ち（する）'.?

Open door: Daily Mail Australia understands Tracy may 結局 return to the Today show, but if she does 'it will be her 決定／判定勝ち（する）'. Pictured at her home in Perth on Tuesday

Tracy has been 取って代わるd on Today by sports reporter Alex Cullen.?It hasn't been 確認するd if or when she will return to the show.

She will 再開する her old 職業 現在のing Nine News Perth from Wednesday, 同様に as hosting the 地元の 週末 news.

'I felt it was the best thing to 長，率いる 支援する west to be の近くに to my family at this uncertain time,' Tracy told TV Blackbox.?

'I just want to make sure everyone stays 安全な, looks out for each other, and of course, always practise social distancing.'??

New 役割: Tracy has been 取って代わるd on Today by sports reporter Alex Cullen (pictured). It hasn't been 確認するd if or when she will return to the show

One of the few Vietnamese 直面するs on Australian TV, Tracy began her journalism career in 無線で通信する, 報告（する）／憶測ing for Western Australia's 6PR 無線で通信する and Curtin FM 100.1.

She moved from Perth to Sydney in 2004 after nabbing the 役割 of breakfast editor and newsreader at 地元の 無線で通信する 駅／配置する 2SM.??

Over the next few years, Tracy made the 移行 to television, working for the likes of Sky News and Channel 10.

She joined Nine News Sydney in 2007 and spent five years in the newsroom covering a wide variety of stories.

Popular:?Before joining the Today show, she'd worked at Nine for more than a １０年間, having landed her first 職業 at the 網状組織 in 2007

Career:?She moved from Perth to Sydney in 2004 after nabbing the 役割 of breakfast editor and newsreader at 地元の 無線で通信する 駅／配置する 2SM. Over the next few years, Tracy made the 移行 to television, working for the likes of Sky News and Channel 10

In an interview with 9Honey?in 2017, Tracy referred to Sylvia Jeffreys as one of her closest friends from her days at Nine in Sydney.

She said: 'Building really solid friendships like Sylvia Jeffreys and Amelia Adams, they're still two of my closest friends, にもかかわらず 存在 on the other 味方する of the country.'

In 2012, Tracy left the Sydney bureau and returned to Perth to care for her parents.

Pals:?In an interview with 9Honey in 2017, Tracy referred to Sylvia Jeffreys (権利) as one of her closest friends from her days at Nine in Sydney

There, she joined the Nine News Perth team as a reporter and fill-in presenter.???

She is no stranger to covering hard-hitting news stories, having 報告（する）／憶測d on events 含むing?the death of Nelson Mandela, Schapelle Corby's 解放（する） from 刑務所，拘置所 and the mystery of Malaysia 航空機によるs flight MH370.

In 新規加入, she has also worked as a political reporter for the 網状組織 in Canberra.

Done it before:?She joined Nine News Sydney in 2007 and spent five years in the newsroom covering a wide variety of stories. In 2012, Tracy left the Sydney bureau and returned to Perth to care for her parents?

証明するing she really can do it all, she became a published author in 2014 with the 解放（する） of Small Bamboo -?the story of her family's 劇の escape from war-torn Vietnam in 1978.?

She was once the 犠牲者 of a drink spiking rampage, which saw 違反者／犯罪者s Chebli Djait and Adel Samadi prey on nine women - 含むing Tracy - and three men during a six-day period in October 2004.

によれば a 報告（する）／憶測 by the?Sydney Morning 先触れ（する）?in 2006, Tracy 証言するd against the two men in 法廷，裁判所 に引き続いて the 出来事/事件, which took place at Pontoon 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 in Sydney's Darling Harbour.

Past: She was once the 犠牲者 of a drink spiking rampage, which saw 違反者／犯罪者s Chebli Djait and Adel Samadi prey on nine women - 含むing Tracy - and three men during a six-day period in October 2004

Tracy （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that the men had bought her a vodka drink, but said she could hardly 解任する anything after that.

'I just wasn't seeing straight, and from that point, parts of the evening 黒人／ボイコットd out,' she told the 法廷，裁判所.

解任するing the 出来事/事件, Tracy said she remembered feeling strange, as though she was 'really, really, really drunk'.

Ordeal: Tracy 前線d the NSW 地区 法廷，裁判所 in 2006 to 証言する, with the men each 存在 宣告，判決d to 15 years in 刑務所，拘置所. Pictured at 負かす／撃墜するing Centre 法廷，裁判所 in Sydney in?2006

The next day, she felt exhausted and was hardly able to move.??

It turned out the men had been spiking people's drinks with?epilepsy 医薬 in an 試みる／企てる to steal their 所持品 and, in some 事例／患者s, sexually 強襲，強姦 their 犠牲者s.

Tracy 前線d the NSW 地区 法廷，裁判所 in 2006 to 証言する, with the men each 存在 宣告，判決d to 15 years in 刑務所，拘置所, によれば an?ABC?報告（する）／憶測 at the time.

Hard-hitting:?She is no stranger to covering hard-hitting news stories, having 報告（する）／憶測d on events 含むing the death of Nelson Mandela, Schapelle Corby's 解放（する） from 刑務所，拘置所 and the mystery of Malaysia 航空機によるs flight MH370