Britain’s oldest working male stripper has confessed he was as soon as employed to carry out subsequent to a lifeless physique.
Mike Stratton has been within the enterprise for 38 years. Over the years he has carried out a Full Monty dance routine at a girl’s funeral, needed to have a tetanus jab after being bitten on the bum and was even as soon as booked by the Russian Mafia.
And he has no plans on packing it in regardless of being 55 years outdated as a result of he mentioned he’s like “catnip” to pensioners.
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Mike, who now runs his personal stripper company, mentioned: “You can’t beat occurring stage. The adrenaline buzz you get is unimaginable.
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“These days, when my agent phones me up and says ‘Do you want to do this birthday gram?’ I’ll ask ‘How old is she?’
“If they’re under 25, I’ll say ‘Listen, that’s a bit young for me.’ But I’m all over the pensioners. They love me. To anybody over 50, I’m like catnip.”
Mike’s profession started in his hometown of Wigan in 1986.
In his most weird reserving, he and his troupe carried out a Full Monty dance routine subsequent to a girl’s coffin in 2006.
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He mentioned: “There’s a scene in The Full Monty where they do a Donna Summer ‘Hot Stuff’ routine. She put in her will that she wants a team of strippers to do this for her.
“At the church, I said to her son, ‘So everybody knows this is happening?’ He went, ‘Oh no, there’s only a couple of us who know.’ I said, ‘You’re joking!’
“The music came on, and we had to walk up to the coffin – there were two of us on either side of it – and we did the routine.
“People were just looking at us gobsmacked, and we were like, ‘Oh my god’. We finished the routine and there was a ‘clap, clap, clap’, and we walked out.”
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Mike, who has carried out with the legendary Dreamboys troupe, based his personal group known as the X-men within the nineties and mentioned it drove ladies “wild”.
The dad-of-three, whose solo stage identify is ‘The Hustler’, mentioned: “I was once stood there having a picture taken and all of a sudden I had this mad pain in my bum. Turned around and there was a girl on her knees. She’d bit my bum.
“She drew blood and I had to go and have a tetanus shot.”
Besides his profession in stripping, Mike has additionally extremely managed to make £70,000 by occurring dozens of TV sport reveals – from The Weakest Link to Bullseye.
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And Mike can be engaged on a brand new tell-all memoir titled, ‘My Life as a Male Stripper’.
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