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BBC axes pole dancing
By DEREK ROBINS
Sun Online
The BBC has been forced to axe a celebrity pole dancing show after protests from women’s groups.
Zoe Ball had been due to strut her stuff in Strictly Pole Dancing for the Sport Relief charity event in July.
Denise Marshall of the Poppy Project, a group which helps women trafficked into prostitution, said: “Despite celebrity advocates promoting pole dancing as harmless fun, we must not forget that it has inextricable links to the sexual exploitation of women.”
A BBC spokesman added: “This idea was one of several that we were considering and will not now be developed further.”
Other names being lined up for the show were rumoured to include newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky and GMTV’s Fiona Phillips.
What do you think? Would you have watched Strictly Come Pole Dancing?
This is ridiculous.
How can you say that this is the exploitation of women when it is the men that are the ones paying to watch some women spinning around on a pole?
Perhaps these people need to stop and think about this for a second. Who is really being exploited in pole dancing clubs? The women who pay a fraction of what they earn in the night to perform? Or the men that think they have half a chance of romance?
If these girls can earn a safe and good living doing this, then more power to them!
Lee Anderson
This could have been the greatest show! Our country is far too PC these days.
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Well done BBC. Morals and manners are at an all time low in this country, due to many elements of the media.
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I currently attend pole dancing lessons for exercise and fun and think it’s fantastic.
I was really looking forward to this show. I think people who have never been to a lesson based on fun and fitness cannot really give fair comment. Comparing this to the pole dancing for money in clubs is unrealistic.
Come on Britain, have some fun for once!!!!
Kirstin Dand
I am fed up with others telling what is good for me.
It is about time the great British public was left to decide for itself.
The women who were going to be on the programme had surely put themselves forward for it. If they enjoy what they are doing - then who it is harming?
If the women’s groups didn't want to see it, then simple switch off!
Viv
Why cancel this show? I thought it had great potential for some good harmless fun entertainment. They will be fully clothed, so what is the problem?
If women want to pole dance it is up to the individual. The women who complained about this show should get a life, and they might have some fun instead of spoiling ours!
The women who were going to be on the programme had surely put themselves forward for it. If they enjoy what they are doing - then who it is harming?
If the women’s groups didn't want to see it, then simple switch off!
One of the things I found disturbing about the so-called new, "make it above-board -let's make stripping and poledancing a fun and happy get-fit activity" so disturbing is that when marketing it to women, the dark side is never mentioned. And it should be absolutely. But no one can though can they, as this would be admitting that they may have been a hooker.
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