JODI Gordon developed her taste for pole-dancing and strip clubs through her role on Channel 7 soap Home and Away.

The embattled starlet, exposed as a regular customer at Kings Cross strip joint Bada Bing, learned the art of pole-dancing more than two years ago when her TV character Martha took it up to impress her tough guy boyfriend.

A seven spokeswoman yesterday denied reports Gordon was leaving the network.

“Home and Away is on a production break right now and Jodi is using that time to rest and prepare for the second half of the season. She is concentrating on taking the right steps to get her life back in control,” the publicist said.

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The four athletic dancers from Stoke-on-Trent assisted gold-toothed rapper DJ Talent, watched by more than 14 million viewers, in the semi-final of the TV talent show.

Dressed in gold bikinis, the girls performed a range of tricks on the poles, while DJ Talent shouted out, “I say Britain, you say talent”.

Despite being championed by former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, the bling-king DJ did not make the cut for the show’s final on Saturday night.

DJ Talent’s pole dancers – instructor Faye Chatterley, who runs Pole Fit, based in Longton, her students Sasha Kavaleva and Becca Edwards, and fellow instructor Deb Riley, of Pole Queens, also based at Longton – enjoyed their big moment.
Faye, aged 31, of Fenton, said: “Through people I know in the pole industry we were asked to come along to auditions. Then we found out we would be supporting DJ Talent.

“We were so excited. We had such a wonderful day. DJ Talent was such a nice man, he was lovely. Very down to earth.

“We were told afterwards that we were watched by 14 million people. That’s amazing. We didn’t really think about the TV cameras when we were dancing, because you are performing to a TV audience. We were also on the ITV2 show, Britain’s Got More Talent”

Faye has been pole dancing since 2005, when she visited a lap dancing club.

“I watched a girl performing a spinning climb up a pole and I thought it was beautiful,” she said.

“As a dancer I could appreciate how difficult it was and the strength required to do it.

“So I got my own portable stripper poles and taught myself how to do it.”

Student Becca, aged 23, of Blurton, said: “I just heard about it as an up-and-coming thing to do. Some people still think of it as seedy, confined to smoky clubs. But no-one judges you at the classes and it is really good fun.

“When we were on Britain’s Got Talent there was a real buzz around the pole dancing community. People from all over the country were getting in touch on Facebook and wishing us good luck.”

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The former ‘Baywatch’ actress is so obsessed with the raunchy exercise regime that she has designed a fold-away pole which can be set up anywhere.

She said: “I am so excited to have a new pole coming out, a portable stripper pole. The great thing about my portable pole is you can put it in your own living room or you can do the workout in your bedroom. No-one has to see you do it. It’s up to you – you can perform for your husband or boyfriend, or do it more as a workout and focus on that.”

Carmen, 36, also said she has no intention of following in the footsteps of Beyonce Knowles, Ashlee Simpson and Mariah Carey and having a quickie wedding, because she wants to take things with fiance Rob Patterson “super, super slow”.

She added to ‘Fox News’: “I have known Rob for years – we were friends first and then we just started dating. He’s super sweet, really, really nice and a really kind, loving person. There are no plans for the wedding as of yet, we’re taking things really, really, really, slow.

“It’s just funny how you get engaged and everyone thinks you’re getting married tomorrow – even my friends were calling me going, ‘Are you pregnant? I heard you’re pregnant. Is that true?’ All these rumours and gossip start, it’s funny. But it could be 10 years. I really want to take it super, super slow.”