Hello, I'm Krestey Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 2009. My cast away this week is the choreographer Arlene Phillips. She became a household name as one of the judges on the TV

Smash strictly come dancing, but her 40-year career has stretched well beyond the

sequins and spats of Primetime TV. She has collaborated with Tina Turner and Elton John, taught

Albert Finney how to tap dance, and apparently single-handedly corrupted the models of a nation

with her 80s dance troop hot gossip it was you then

Arlene Phillips was it who corrupted the morals of a nation and you caused a lot of

outrage in middle England back then reminders of their reaction? Well, Hot Gossip had been going three years before they broke on TV,

and it was a real struggle.

I was constantly told, no, it's too sexy for TV.

And you weren't in the group just to be clear,

you were the choreographer.

I was the choreographer of the group.

I pulled the group together and we became London's cult dance group.

And then one of my dancers,

the very beautiful Donna Fielding,

auditioned for a new show called the Kenny Everett video show.

They were all asked to send photographs to the producer. She sent a

very famous hot gossip picture of the group, circled her face and went this is me.

The producer took one look at the photograph and went

find this group, bring this group to me, this is the group I want for the

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