The Labour leader was jokingly referred to as the stripper after his battle bus was gatecrashed by Nicola Braithwaite and her friends.
Samantha Steele described it as the "ultimate selfie", while Anna Heaford joked: "The stripper had just arrived for nicolab13 hen do..! #EdMiliband".
She and director Jonathan Kent were working on a long-awaited British revival of the Sondheim musical Gypsy, based on American stripper Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir about her mother Mama Rose.
He was the terrifying thug Begbie in Trainspotting, the psychopathic Hillsborough survivor Albie in an award-winning, three-part episode of Cracker; he played Hamish, the amiable, hash-smoking slacker cop, in Hamish Macbeth and Gaz, the downtrodden former steelworker turned stripper in The Full Monty, which made him into an international star and changed his life irrevocably.
His father, Kenneth, was a plate stripper who fought in the Spanish civil war, and his mother, Ruth, was a garment worker who played the lead role in Pins and Needles, a 1930s musical revue staged by the international Ladies Garment Workers Unionon.
And if he were to meet me, even for a few moments," the one-time stripper turned screenwriter adds in a sweeter, more conciliatory tone, "perhaps he could be persuaded not to lop off his Johnson".
So, the last film was about a young stripper who desperately wanted to escape the business that was slowly corroding his soul.
This film, meanwhile, is about the same stripper trying to think up some fun new dance moves for his sexy buddies.
Only time can show, but hopefully the power struggle will play out like that bit in Showgirls - Paul Verhoeven's nuanced and thought-provoking 1995 world cinema classic - when ambitious stripper Nomi Malone pushes better remunerated stripper Cristal Connors down the stairs in order to steal her job.
One organiser passes out cups of foamy beer while the other dances on a stripper pole.
One octogenarian Sedgley member says the club would now be lost without the women (though another heaps calumnies on Emily Pankhurst).Many working men's clubs have already realised that they have to offer more than cut-price beer, and the occasional stripper, if they are to compete with the theme bars and cheap, imported alcohol that now distract potential members.
