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My show is also about style. My mother is French and growing up I was in awe of her glamour – I remember an old Edwardian dress she used to wear, and a Christian Dior mini. I enjoy the idea of expressing your personality through a look and embracing your femininity on stage.

I start a show looking sophisticated in a 1930s dress and pill-box hat but, by the end, I look like I’ve been dropped off the back of a bus. I purposely make myself look ugly, pulling down my hair, smearing my face with make-up; it’s interesting how you can do that but still look sexual.

Roxy Velvet

After seven years at Cheltenham Ladies’ College I was expected to go to Oxford to read geography. But I had other plans.

I’m most famous for my birdcage, which is a freestanding aerial rig, ten feet high by eight feet wide, with a hoop inside for my trapeze work. I perform many shows in it, including ‘The Magic Birdcage’ in which I do acrobatics and end up in a 30s-style feathered budgie outfit, and ‘Snow Queen’, in which I swing and strip until I finish hanging upside down.

Chrys Columbine

I’ve always been a show-off. I grew up doing ballet and modelling, and had a few small parts in television and theatre productions.

I’m currently working on a new act titled ‘The Naked Nocturne’ where I play a Chopin Nocturne and strip at the same time. I’ll often come up with ideas when playing my piano at home, dressed in stockings, a pencil skirt and fascinator.