I won £70k on TV shows but now I’m a male stripper – hen dos are wild, my bum’s been bitten & I’ve ended up in hospital
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BRITAIN'S oldest working male stripper has bared all about his 38 year career and vowed to carry on performing, despite having had his bum bitten and even ending up in hospital. Mike Stratton began taking his kit off for money as a jobless teenager in 1986.
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Over the years, he's performed a Full Monty dance routine at a woman's funeral, had to have a tetanus jab after being bitten on the bum and was even once booked by the Russian Mafia. And at 55, the hunk has no plans to slow down as he is still wowing crowds with his incredible physique.
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Mike, who now runs his own stripper agency, said: “You can’t beat going on stage. The adrenaline buzz you get is incredible. I think that’s kept me young. “I call adrenaline a ‘youth drug’. If you met and talked to me, you wouldn’t think I was a 55-year-old man. In my head, I’m still 25 and I’ll do my best to act it.
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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.”.
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When asked whether the stripping industry is ''tamer'' nowadays, he told FEMAIL: ''Not at all. The ladies' nights are just as raucous as they ever were. ''They want more now - if you do a butler job, back in the day you would just stand there and have pictures with the girls.
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