25 YEARS OF MALE STRIPPERS THE POWER BEHIND THE POUCH !
25 Years ago entrepreneur Bari Bacco launched the first male strip show – A phenomenon – The Dreamboys, and to celebrate this year 2012, has now taken it one step further, by creating the ultimate ‘Super Group’.
‘DREAM IDOLS’.
He was inspired by a television advert for Levi Jeans, that featured a young hunky model stripping off his jeans to be washed in a launderette, whilst being watched by two excited girls, who were seated waiting for their washing, which was also taking place.
Bari realised this was the first time a male sex symbol was being used to endorse a product, and that women would enjoy looking at young men as ‘Eye Candy’, so he set about producing a Show.
His friend Peter Stringfellow, who at the time owned ‘The London Hippodrome’, offered Bari his club to launch the show.
After a hugely successful night, for an audience of 2,000 screaming women, which hit the National Press in a mammoth way, Bari took his show as residency to Jacquelines club Soho, where at 6.30 straight from work, eager girls queued around the block, keen to set eyes on the beautiful fit torsos of the strapping hunks.
Camera crews from around the world, the UK media of TV, National Press and magazines, were at each and every show.
Both Natalie Appleton (All Saints) and Samantha Janus (Eastenders), were regulars, and were soon dating two of the Dreamboys, often travelling with them in the back of a van, as they toured the UK. (Eventually marrying them and later divorcing).
Bari took the show on tour to countries around the world, including Russia, Dubai, Greece, Germany, Spain, Holland, Norway, Turkey, Malta and Denmark, exciting girls who chanted the same phrase, but in languages of their country -“Get ‘em off “!
UK Television shows jumped onto the phenomenon of the male strippers. Amongst the celebrities, Elton John, Ruby Wax, Jonathan Ross, Dame Edna Everidge, Jimmy Saville, Esther Rantzen and Charlotte Church all invited the Dreamboys onto their major shows, adding the mix of masculine beauty and sex appeal.
A presentation to Princess Diana and two dance scenes in SPICEWORLD the movie, helped establish male stripping was here to stay.
More recently Bari was featured in episodes of Louie Spence’s SHOWBUSINESS television show, as
‘The Power behind the Pouch’.
COMING SOON – ‘DREAM IDOLS’ 2012.
