It’s time to free willy again as the Dreamboys hit town

SOME men will go to great lengths for their work. If you’re one of the male strippers known collectively as the Dreamboys, size does matter.

Hence the pump. This is the foreplay before a performance. Instead of inflating your airbed, you inflate the tool of your trade.

Danny is a rugby player forced out of the game with a knee injury, but that isn’t the part of his body that he needs to keep in shape for his new job as a stripper.

He was shown how to get pumped up, but warned not to overdo it. Well, he wouldn’t want to poke out the eye of someone in the front row, would he?

The makers of Confessions of a Male Stripper (C4) were granted access all areas. “Is it a full strip or a gstring?”

asked the woman on the phone at Dreamboys HQ above Howard’s family butchers shop, in Essex.

They don’t come much butcher than these Dreamboys who turn out to be surprisingly poorly paid for putting their privates on display – £80 a strip with an extra tenner for freeing willy.

Danny’s girlfriend is in the audience to witness his first full strip although boss David assured us that “It’s not about getting your willy out.

It’s about a show and entertaining people”. The women in the audience seem to think otherwise.

There’s no shortage of men, young and old, at the open auditions for new Dreamboys. With only four places on offer “competition is stiff” said the narrator, unable to keep her innuendo under control.

Dreamboy Lotan isn’t happy (would you be, with a name like that?). He began stripping to pay for dance training, but stayed at the pumping station. He clearly doesn’t enjoy his work, especially stripping at a gay birthday bash. There are arguments and tantrums.

Danny fails to turn up for a show and is worried he’s ruined his chances of making it big. I wouldn’t worry, there’s always the willy pump to boost his chances.

Boss David feels his future is assured.

“As long as there are women walking this earth, there will always be willy wigglers like us,” he says.

How different to being a go-go girl, which appears to consist of wriggling out of your outer clothes and displaying nice underwear. No full frontals in Confessions Of A Go-Go Girl (Really), a 2008 TV movie of numbing boredom – even in fast forward mode.

Jane decides to give up law school for briefs of a different kind. “I want to act,” she says, go-going to pay her way through acting school after her parents take back her tuition fees.

“I wouldn’t know how to dance like that,” she says after seeing a gogo girl. Think yourself lucky, girl, it’s dreadful.

Her boyfriend doesn’t approve of her new work. “I don’t know who you are any more,” he says, meaning he doesn’t recognise her with her clothes off.

The club owner points out that high rollers frequent the joint and are looking for “a lot of bangs for the bucks”. Alas, these dancers go out with a wimper not a bang. Please, don’t wake me up before you go-go.

  • The Dreamboys Fit and Famous tour will be at York Grand Opera House on Wednesday. Tel: 0844- 871-3024; atgtickets.com/york. They will be at Sunderland in July and Newcastle in October.