At the Hippodrome casino in Leicester Square, the dancers of Magic Mike Live! are having their #MeToo moment. Based on a film starring Channing Tatum, the show loosely follows the story of a down-on-his-luck hunk finding work as a stripper.
But some members of the audience are confusing fiction and reality. The dancers tell us that at least two women a week are thrown out of the show because of inappropriate behaviour. “They scratch you, bite you, lick you, anything you can imagine it’s probably happened,” says Myles Harper, who has been in the show since it opened in 2018. Each week, he says, “at least once or twice, there’s touching, pulling, being rude. Then we get women who actually fight each other.”
