SECRETS OF THE CHIPPENDALES

Murder off the Dancefloor

For women, the performers at Chippendales nightclub in the 1980s, with their bow ties and oiled-up physiques (left), made for a fun and naughty night out, but behind the scenes the club was ‘full of self-destruction, revenge, greed, evil…’. So says Eric

Gilbert, who worked with the club’s owner Somen ‘Steve’ Banerjee. He’s one of the contributors to this four-part truecrime series, which lays bare the shocking story behind the strip club’s success. There are also interviews with the family of

Nick de Noia, the choreographer who was the making of the Chippendales’ show, but whose death was not the first, or the last, in this incredible tale. BBC iplayer