Tiger's 'lover' cancels press event

12 April 2012

A New York nightclub hostess has called off a press conference in which she was due to break her silence about her relationship with Tiger Woods.

Rachel Uchitel, 34, cancelled the event a "due to unforeseen circumstances", said her lawyer Gloria Allred.

The 33-year-old billionaire golfer has apologised for letting his family down in a statement which alluded to "personal sins" and the forced exposure of "intimate details" of his life.

Speculation has mounted over the golfer's personal life since he crashed his car into a fire hydrant and tree outside his home in Florida in the early hours of Friday morning, with tabloid allegations that he had an affair with Miss Uchitel.

But she has previously denied having an affair with the world's number one golfer.

The development came after the magazine Us Weekly reported that a Los Angeles cocktail waitress claims she had a 31-month affair with Woods.

The magazine released what it said was a voicemail - provided by waitress Jaimee Grubbs - that a man who identified himself as Tiger left on her phone three days before his accident.

Ms Grubbs told the magazine she met Woods at a Las Vegas nightclub the week after the 2007 Masters - two months before Woods' wife Elin Nordegren gave birth to their first child.

In the voice mail released by the magazine, a man says to Grubbs: "Hey, it's, uh, it's Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favour. Um, can you please, uh, take your name off your phone. My wife went through my phone. And, uh, may be calling you.

"If you can, please take your name off that and, um, and what do you call it just have it as a number on the voice mail, just have it as your telephone number. That's it, OK. You gotta do this for me. Huge. Quickly. All right. Bye."

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