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By
Gavin Allen

Last updated at 1:12 PM on 25th December 2011

A middle class housewife has stunned neighbours in her leafy village by revealing she used to earn £1,000 a night as an X-rated lapdancer.

Debby Hughes, 47, a former member of the Womens Institute, is known to locals in their rural Cheshire neighbourhood for fostering kittens and baking cakes in aid of the RSPCA and other charities.

But now she has shocked the 2,920 residents of Croft – where spare time is usually passed horse riding, at the golf range or bowling green – by confessing she rubbed shoulders with brothel madam Cynthia Payne, former Page 3 model Jo Guest and comic Bernard Manning as head of a raunchy dance troupe named the Pink Pussycats.

Pink Pussycat: Debby Hughes, pictured left in 2002, became lapdancer at 35 after seeing an advert in the local paper and has shocked her sleepy Cheshire village by revealing her secret past in a tell-all book

Career switch: The mother of three quit her old job as a £25 a week dinner lady to take to the stage

The divorced mother of three, who quit her old job as a £25 a week dinner lady to take to the stage, is to spill all on her life in a tell-all book which gives a behind the scenes look at the world of lapdancing.

‘Being a lapdancer gave me a life away from being a housewife back then,’ said Mrs Hughes.

‘But I think now that I’ve danced on stage with all those outfits, I can grow old gracefully.

‘I don’t have any regrets I’m glad I did it, it was something different to do and we had a good laugh along the way.

‘I doubt if anyone in the village knows what I used to do – but they soon will.

‘It’s a leafy quiet little village. We all know each other to say hello but I don’t know them really well.

‘If they did know what I used to do, I doubt anyone would ever say anything.

Celebrity circle: Mrs Hughes pictured with the late comedian Bernard Manning in 2002

‘Despite what I’ve done in the past. I’m a very old fashioned in some ways, I did join the women’s institute when I was younger because I do love baking – although I did find the WI a bit fuddy duddy for me.’

In the 1990s Mrs Hughes initially worked as a dinner lady donning her dreary green overalls at her daughter’s primary school earning just £25 a week for three years and craved some excitement.

After watching an episode of TV show Tricia, which featured lap dancers, the mother-of-three was stunned to hear how much they made in a single night and spotted an advert in her local paper for a new gentlemen’s club.

She auditioned and got the job but couldn’t overcome her nerves of shedding her clothes in front of strangers and ended up working as the bar’s hostess.

After seeing the film The Full Monty, just months later Debby and her then husband Rick had an idea – to set up a raunchy dance troupe with an ending just like the movie.

The Pink Pussycats were an overnight success attracting the likes of Bernard Manning, Jo Guest, and Cynthia Payne to their seductive show and saw the ex-dinner lady taking home £1,000 a night.

Famous friends: Hughes, right, pictured in 2007 with the famed British madam Cynthia Payne, who was played by Julie Walters in the film Personal Services

‘When I first stood on the stage I was just thinking what would everyone at the parent teachers meetings think if they could see me now,’ said Mrs Hughes.

‘I think they’d have died of shock, but when you’re a mother you lose yourself if you’re not a strong enough – you lose the person that you are –  and going into that gave me a sense of youth.

‘I just came in one day and said I’d saw this advert for strippers and Rick said if that’s what you want to do go for it.

‘I tried dancing in front of him, I put on some music. I felt a bit daft but it was more nerve wracking in front of strangers. To take your clothes off in front of someone is difficult; your clothes are your barrier.

Film spur: Hughes was inspired into stripping by the 1997 film The Full Monty, starring Robert Carlyle

‘After the audition I thought this isn’t for me I rang them from the car and said I’m sorry I can’t do this.

‘They told me “You’ve got the height and the look and we think you could do it, but if you want to be the hostess at the club I guarantee you will swap over” and they were right.

‘I went in and met all the girls in
the dressing room, they were all undressed and had cigarettes hanging
out of their mouths and saying to each other “feel my boobs”.

‘You could just see the fake side, the nails, the hair, the boobs, the tan, the make-up, eyelashes.

‘I
was used to sitting in PTA meetings and working at my children’s
Christian school and I’m walking into a room where people are half
undressed and smoking.

‘We
sold 130 tickets for the opening night and when the last show came on I
felt I’d achieved it, all the men were screaming, it was like “I’ve
actually done this”.

‘I was
shocked after the first dance because it’s like living two different
lives; being a mum on the PTA and a dinner lady and doing this.’ The
Pink Pussycats would parade the streets of a town before their shows,
scantily dressed and aboard a pink open topped jeep.

They
quickly earned themselves the reputation of being the most X-rated show
around and even taught Jo Guest how to do their version of The Full
Monty.

She said: ‘I didn’t do another show after 2004, after I was 40, but we carried on for another year and after that I set up a kiss-a-gram service.

‘It was life changing, we went on lots of nice holidays to Capri, Sorrento, Amalfi, I love Italy. And I got an MR2 white sports car. Rick and I split up in 2005 but he’s still the father of my children and he’s still in my life.

In shock: The people of the sleepy village of Croft (pictured) in Cheshire knew Hughes as someone who baked cakes for the RSPCA

‘I couldn’t say a young girl should do
as it you see men in a different light, everything looks jaded and you
see men for what they are.

‘The good bits are things like confidence and you find that men like boobs and a bit of weight on a girl.

‘I’m happy to be a woman I’ve done most things I’ve wanted to do and the next stage is to be a grandma.’

• Debby Hughes’ book Lapping It Up, co-written by Conrad Jones, is released on November 10.

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