Emily Webb explores the origins of The Chippendales with its co-founder and former lawyer Bruce Nahin. It started as a weekly club night in Los Angeles where male dancers stripped for women and it became a global sensation. But greed and jealousy would lead to scandal and murder.
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Presenter: Emily Webb
Producer: Deiniol Buxton
(Photo: Silhouettes of Chippendales performers in cowboy hats. Credit: Getty/Gabe Ginsberg/ WireImage)
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