Super-fit Grace Tame has been spotted on a Sydney beach with an award-winning photographer.
The former Australian of the Year slipped into a blue bikini as the 30-year-old met up with Stuart Spence, 65, in the city’s eastern suburbs on Friday.
Victorian-born Spence is an acclaimed snapper who established his name taking celebrity portraits in the 1980s and regularly showcases his work in solo exhibitions.
He was a guest at Tame’s birthday bash in January when she wore an Austin Powers-style metallic blue bodysuit to complete her Debbie Harry costume.
The rock-themed celebration was held at Capanno Trattoria in Sydney’s south-east with Tame, a sexual assault victims’ advocate, donning a blonde wig and posing up a storm with family and friends.
‘Ten days ago, I finally turned 30 with a full spirit and a full belly,’ she began a long caption alongside a series of pictures taken at the event.
‘While not all of my loved ones could make it to celebrate on the day itself – a curse of being born close to Christ I accepted many moons ago – so many of my family and lifelong friends were there.
‘Enough joy, food and laughter was shared to last until next year at least.’
Grace Tame has been spotted on a Sydney beach with award-winning photographer Stuart Spence
The former Australian of the Year slipped into a blue bikini as the 30-year-old met up with Stuart Spence, 65, in the city’s eastern suburbs on Friday
Victorian-born Spence is an acclaimed snapper who established his name taking celebrity portraits in the 1980s and regularly showcases his work in solo exhibitions
Tame then became introspective, writing: ‘Milestones and ending cycles always make me reflective. It’s hard to celebrate anything knowing the current state of the world.
‘Then again, evil forces have always been causing harm. Only recently has that harm been broadcast so blatantly and frequently in our faces.
‘Still, each of deserves to feel happiness when we can. To be together. To give and receive love’
She concluded by thanking her ‘motley crew’ of mates – dressed as rockers including Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and Angus Young – for showing up.
The shindig followed Tame revealing she was running a whopping 100km each week as she admitted she would ‘love to go to the Olympics’.
Tame zoomed her way around the course at the Great Ocean Road Running Festival last May to become the first female competitor across the finish line in the 60km ultra-marathon.
She blitzed the course in just under four hours and 43 minutes.
Tame has previously posted sub-two-hour marathon times, and when pressed by the ABC during a podcast over whether she would ‘have a crack’ at trialling for a spot at the Olympics, remained open to the idea.
Spence was a guest at Tame’s birthday bash in January when she wore an Austin Powers-style metallic blue bodysuit to complete her Debbie Harry costume (both pictured above)
Spence and Tame enjoyed the balmy autumn weather on Friday
‘I’d love to go to the Olympics,’ Tame said when asked if she had been inspired by watching the marathon at the Paris Games.
‘I’m not going to ever put a limit on myself.
‘I just have to work on my speed and my consistency and probably shift a few things around in terms of my work priorities because the cognitive load is something that needs to be considered.
‘I’ve got a pretty high cognitive load on any given day and I would need to reduce that to realise my potential as a runner.’
Tame was groomed and sexually assaulted by her 58-year-old teacher Nicolaas Bester when she was a 15-year-old student at St Michael’s Collegiate Girls’ School in Hobart.
Bester was subsequently convicted and jailed.
Tame has since stepped into activism and worked to raise awareness about child sexual abuse and advocated for legal reforms.
Tasmanian-born Tame was named Australian of the Year in 2021 for her advocacy work on behalf of victims of sexual assault.
Tame founded the Grace Tame Foundation but has stepped away from the organisation and is now a brand ambassador for sportswear giant Nike
Tame’s January birthday celebrations followed her revealing she was running a whopping 100km each week as she admitted she would ‘love to go to the Olympics’
She founded the Grace Tame Foundation but has stepped away from the organisation and is now a brand ambassador for sportswear giant Nike.
‘I couldn’t be more excited to announce that I am officially an ambassador for Nike,’ she said two weeks after her birthday. ‘This has been a long time in the making.’
During the ABC podcast, Tame opened up on why she loved running and why she recommended it is a way to unwind and relax.
‘I am nowhere near an elite-level runner,’ she said.
‘I’ve really got into running and realised that I enjoyed doing it when I was young and was in primary school.
‘My cousin Elouise, who now coaches me, was doing triathlons and she stayed at our house a lot.
‘We’re about four years apart but I think I must have been around six or seven years old when she was going for a run one morning and I asked if I could come along with her’ she continued.
‘Since then, over the past 25 years or so, since that first fateful run, we’ve covered hundreds, no, thousands of kilometres. I have never looked back.’
Tame was engaged to Max Heerey, who worked at his then-fiancée’s charity before becoming a mortgage broker, but the couple are understood to have quietly split last year.
