Come on....we need that here in the U.S. too, to take away the gayness of Dancing With The Stars and leave what we really want to see, the female celebs in skimpy outfits.

Zoe Ball had been due to strut her stuff in Strictly Pole Dancing for the Sport Relief charity event in July.


That would've been too confusing. It would've ended up as a "guess which one is the pole" competition.

A few British female celebrities to make you think that this might not be a great idea:

Jade Goody
Ann Widdecombe
Sarah, Duchess of York
Baroness Thatcher
Forces' Sweetheart Vera Lynn

Mine's shrivelled to the size of a nozzle on an airbed just thinking about it.

Why would the BBC have a show about Polish celebs?

Counteracts the good news about Snoop being banninated from the UK.

Submitter

BBC scraps Celebrity Pole Dancing, a nation mourns

Should be "BBC sacks celebrity pole dancing, a nation mourns"

/fixed it for ya
//unfortunately, those in charge of sacking the celebrity pole dancing have also been sacked
///now the article needs to be rewritten in a completely different style and at great expense
////monty python for teh win

Scaryduck,

Throw in Daniella Westbrook, The Womand Without a Septum, and that incredibly huge girl that used to be on Emmerdale, and mine would drop off.

*Woman* Without a Septum

...making way for the new show "Celebrity Pole Smoking".

Must politely disagree with Scaryduck's estimation of Fergie as a bad choice for the pole. Fergie is a goddess, who deserves Smooving. I heard she posed nekkid for a charity book...One hundred points to the first person to provide pics...

I could definitely deal with Celeb pole dancing for the US market. Poledancing duels between, say Jessica Alba and Mia Hamm, or theme nights like the women from "That 70's Show" (with a special Kurtwood Smith halftime show for the ladies...awww yeah).

/Homina homina homina...

Its popularity plummeted after the public discovered that Michael Barrymore and Noel Edmonds were to be contestants.

For you, :

Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day!

Oops, that was supposed to say For you, Scaryduck

/I suck at html

Apologies for the sentence fragment in previous post...distracted by Debra Jo Rupp shaking that fine, fine rump...

/What about an "Ab Fab" theme night? We'll throw in "Vicar of Dibley" women for free...Dawn French...Awww, yeah...

MCStymie you are a sick sick individual.

Now if we could Keira Knightley in on the action...

Gothnet: MCStymie you are a sick sick individual.

You farkers have NO idea.

Elizibeth Shue?

BRING FORTH THE POLE DANCERS

And while we're at it, could we arraange for bai ling to get a temporary british passport, just for teh event?

when did FOX start producing shows for the BBC?

Oh, Gothnet, my thug, TESTIFY!

Love me some Keira Knightley...You just KNOW she could up the collective pulse by fifty beats per minute. She would utterly crush any competition thrown her way!

Still, I carry my illness with a sense of pride...

/Gotta go buy "About Schmidt" now...
//Yeardley Smith...oh, man...can't fap at work...AAAAAAAA!

MCStymie: //Yeardley Smith...oh, man...can't fap at work...AAAAAAAA!

TESTIFY MY BROTHA! TABANACKLE!

/loves me some yeardly smith
//thought was the only one
///off to myspace
////Hermans Head + youtube + cubicle = fapfapfap

"Despite celebrity advocates promoting pole dancing as harmless fun, we must not forget that it has inextricable links to the sexual exploitation of women."

And we'd better stop any women being in any paid employment, as women being given money for services also "has inextricable links to the sexual exploitation of women."

Or, we could try something radical: how about treating women as fully-paid up members of the human race, able to make their own decisions?

Keira Knightly....hmmmm YES

elendilmir!!! I preach all up in this church, yo! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that fine bin'ness! Yeardley Smith was in a flick in which we get to see her unbelievably amazing rack...Much love to Mr. Skin.

/Yeardley Smith doing the poledancing thing? Shucks...I'd bring hundred-dollar bills to THAT club...It's all about the benjamins, yo!
//Booty ho!!

When did Bai Ling become the Asian Paris Hilton?

This is all the more a shame as Fearne Cotton would probably have been well up for it.

\I'm going to enjoy the proxy circumventing powers of GIS and a magnifying glass.

Before you get too excited about bringing this to America, think for a second about who they'd probably get.

The "B" List Celebrities Most Likely to Pole Dance on TV:
1. Monica Lewinsky
2. Sharon Osbourne
3. Rue McClanahan
4. Kathy Bates
5. Kato Kaelin

The Brits were going to have to pay taxes to make a show about celebrity pole dancing?!

Holy crap. I thought the BBC put on quality programming....?

It seems weird that these european groups, in order to get this stuff banned, brought up human trafficking as a reason.

Apparently pole dancing causes human trafficking.

Does Sophie Howard count as a British celebrity? I wouldn't mind seeing her dance around the pole (especially if it was MY pole).

Fiona Phillips was going to take part. That was the selling point right farking there, and it's shot to hell now :(

Zoe Ball, Natasha Kaplinsky and Fiona Phillips. Only one out of those three do you really want to see pole dancing, judging from the GIS I did...

MCStymie: Yeardley Smith was in a flick in which we get to see her unbelievably amazing rack...

Yeardley Smith? As in the voice of Lisa Simpson? As in the secretary on Herman's Head? As in the pudgy, dorky kid in The Legend of Billie Jean THAT Yeardley Smith? Wow, who'da thunk?

dalton642, I could graciously watch Lewinsky shake her groove thing on a pole, and Sharon Osbourne is loaded with MILFy goodness. I can accept the rest, even Kato, if I could see the first two.

Other highly-probable celebs may include:

Joanie "Chyna" Laurer
Farah Fawcett
Tonya Harding
Cindy Marglois
Jenny "Permanent Guest at Hef's Mansion" McCarthy

I can accept any/all of those, but I'd prefer someone who one would not expect to poledance.

/What of Charo? YOW!!

Mor Beal

The movie in question is "Ginger Ale Afternoon" (1989). What a lovely bunch of coconuts...

Damnit and I so wanted to get my Bea Arthur fix for the month

elendilmir Wow. an Asian that actually has boobies

/me so horny.

OK, I'll conced that Duchess of Fergie would be a valid choice if you're into gingas.

Instead, how about the withered corpse of Lorraine Chase, or Deirdre from Coronation Street with her hideous Cardassian neck?

MCStymie

I believe the book you are looking for was compiled by Elton John, and is titled "four inches" (it is photos of nude/semi-nude women in 4" heels).

MCSTYMIE:
For the love of God, make sure you enter that right. Elton Johnss "nine inches" is a completely different book.

elendilmir

*snort*

vinylgirl, I am in your debt. Fifty points, redeemable for whatever you see fit, are hereby and duly awarded. Still looking for the 100-point pics of teh Fergies...

I am definitely into redheads...Oh my goodness, I still sometimes weep at the blonde Laura Prepon. Travesty.

Elendilmir, the imagery of Elton John's nine inches are now stuck in me head, pushing out my Debra Jo Rupp fantasies! How could you! Good one, tho.

Gonna do a little...research now. :)

Natasha Kaplinsky pole dancing! I would pay TV licence fee for that.

Before you get too excited about bringing this to America, think for a second about who they'd probably get.

The "B" List Celebrities Most Likely to Pole Dance on TV:
1. Monica Lewinsky
2. Sharon Osbourne
3. Rue McClanahan
4. Kathy Bates
5. Kato Kaelin

Don't forget to add Amy Fisher and Tonya Harding to that list.

*THROWS UP IN MOUTH A LITTLE*

MCStymie

ask and ye shall receive: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004480854,00.html

/sorry, no linkie skills

Oops - I should add that the above link is Possibly NSFW

One hundred points to vinylgirl...and now, the serenade.

"You fill up my sennnnnn-sesssssss, like a night in the forest...etc. etc."

/Love me some Fergie
//Now trying to assemble sufficient funds for reverse dowry for to marry vinylgirl. Bless you.

You're welcome, but can save your funds, as vinylgirl is most happily married. :)

/and strawberry blonde, for the record

You know, we go through life thinking that the Brits are just more highly refined Americans. But you read their press, and delve into their habits, and they're as unlike Americans as a people can be. Their language is mostly different, their celebrities are unknown to us and their food is alien to us.

I love the Brits, don't get me wrong. Thanks for the Beatles and Monty Python, as well as Kate Winslet and Kiera Knightley. But you guys are so radically different that it's not funny.

/not saying America is better
//really
///just amazes me that we share the same language, to a point