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The dark underbelly of Chippendales: Historian lays bare ‘sordid’ origins of the all-male revue

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The dark underbelly of the infamous Chippendales all-male review is being laid bare in a new true-crime podcast that details how greed and jealousy among its founders led to arson, murder, and suicide.    Host Natalia Petrzela, a historian and fitness instructor, interviewed more than 60 people for her new podcast Welcome to Your Fantasy, including former dancers, investigators, … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: Even brilliant Billie can’t make me love sordid Suzie

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A Suitable Boy Sunday & Monday, BBC1  Rating: I Hate Suzie Thursday, Sky Atlantic  Rating: Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Sunday, BBC2 Rating: This week we finally said goodbye to Andrew Davies’s adaptation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy, which limped on for however many weeks it was – it seemed to go on for … Read more