Exiled NRL star Todd Carney has been photographed hanging out with convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby in Bali overnight.

A month after being sacked from the Sharks, Carney travelled to Bali with a mutual friend of the Corby family this week.

It shows Carney in high spirits with his arms around both Corby sisters, Schapelle and Mercedes.

Schapelle Corby was released from a nine-year prison term in a Bali jail in February.

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media_camera Todd Carney was sacked by Sharks in June

Carney is on the lookout for another footballing lifeline, with France-based Super League club Les Catalans believed to be his best bet. He is also appealing Cronulla’s decision to sack him, arguing that the club did not follow due process in wielding the axe after his infamous ‘bubbler’ pic went viral in late June.

Rumours linking Carney with a possible code switch and move to GWS were yesterday rubbished by the AFL club.

The rumour mill went into overdrive when a radio announcer for Triple M Adelaide this week claimed to have a source telling him that GWS chief executive Dave Matthews had sounded Carney out.

media_camera Schapelle Corby pictured visit to parole board for her monthly report as the parole condition. Photographer: Lukman Bintaro

“Absolute rubbish. Complete rumour. I don’t know where he got it, whether he made it up or what. Absolute rubbish,” Matthews said yesterday.

“Probably it stemmed from some discussion around Israel Folau and Karmichael Hunt and the opportunities that were provided by them ... but we’ve got absolutely no interest in Todd Carney at all. It’s absolutely rubbish.”

As for Schapelle and Mercedes Corby, the sisters have maintained a low profile since the former’s release from Kerobokan jail in February.

media_camera Schapelle Corby with her boyfriend Ben Panangian

Earlier this month Schapelle celebrated her37th birthday, her first since being paroled, with a low-key family gathering.

She has also been pictured working at the Board Room the business run by her sister Mercedes and brother-in-law Wayan Widyartha, in Central Kuta.

As part of her release, Schapelle is required to report to her parole officers at the Denpasar board on a monthly basis - a task which remains fraught amid ongoing media interest in her movements.

It remains unclear when Schapelle will be permitted to return to Australia but her parole period is expected to end in 2017.

Check out Sports Confidential in tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph for the full story on how Carney came to meet the Corby sisters.