By ALEX PEAKE and TOM WELLS
THE wife of Portsmouth boss Avram Grant has vowed to stand by her husband after The Sun unmasked him as the Premiership manager caught in a "Thai" vice den.
Israeli actress Tzofit Grant claims her hubby only went for a "massage" in a bid to combat the immense stress he is under.
The Sun revealed exclusively just before Christmas that a Prem boss had been enjoying visits to a brothel.
Our story sent shockwaves around the footballing world.
But until today we have been banned from revealing the culprit's identity by creeping privacy laws based on the Human Rights Act.
Tzofit, the mother of the couple's two teenage kids, spoke out after we finally exposed the Pompey chief as the manager caught visiting the brothel in Southampton.
The eccentric 46-year-old, who once drunk her own urine live on telly, said SHE even ENCOURAGED Grant to go for massages to help him deal with the pressure of football management.
And despite her husband being named, Tzofit, who has been married to Grant for 16 years, insisted the revelations had not damaged their marriage.
She claimed that the premises, which has since closed, is not a brothel.
Massage
Speaking today, the mum-of-two said: "Avram will not be suing the papers even though he only went to the place for a massage.
"It's not a brothel but a massage parlour.
"Considering the pressure that Avram is under at Portsmouth, I'm angry with him for not going every day to have a massage. Avram loves a massage.
"He enjoys an Australian massage, a Japanese massage and a Thai massage.
"I'm looking forward to coming over to England to visit Avram and going to have a massage there together with him."
Tzofit told The Sun she could not understand "what all the fuss is about in Britain" because her husband is not a publicly elected figure.
Speaking from her home in a plush district of Tel Aviv, she added: "So far as I am concerned he can go and have a massage whenever he wants.
"It's his own business what he does with his body, and he certainly has not damaged our marriage.
"He doesn't have to tell me everything. He doesn't tell me he went to the store to buy milk.
"I don't know why what he did is being compared to what John Terry did.
"There is no comparison although John Terry's private life is also not the business of the media."
Tzofit is dubbed the Ruby Wax of Israeli television for her multi-coloured hair and her love for removing her clothes.
She infamously once downed a whiskey tumbler of HER urine live on air on a telly show she fronted called Milkshake.
And like most Israeli women, she has done national military training and knows how to strip down an automatic submachine gun.
source: thesun
THE wife of Portsmouth boss Avram Grant has vowed to stand by her husband after The Sun unmasked him as the Premiership manager caught in a "Thai" vice den. 
