‘The Godfather with fake tan’: how the Chippendales became TV dynamite | Television

For a while back there, the Chippendales were inescapable. Buffed and sheened to a high polish, strutting around in nothing but bowties and cuffs like the oblivious victims of the world’s smartest tuxedo thieves, the male stripping troupe seemed unstoppable. Formed in 1979, in just a few short…