Connected star Kate McGrew on TV, prostitution and her family

Artist Kate McGrew’s respectable family — her mother is a retired professor — are doing their best to support her decision to out herself on TV as a prostitute, says Ellie O’Byrne

Connected star Kate McGrew on TV, prostitution and her family

SHE cuts a plucky but poignant figure, tiny and cartoon-like in faux fur, tight black jeans and towering heels, as she poses for photos on a busy Cork City street. Kate McGrew, aka Lady Grew, walks with her head held high.

Her flamboyant fashion and diminutive stature would draw stares anyway, but since the airing of Connected, RTE 2’s new reality TV series, in which she took part, people are staring because they recognise her. The Ohio-born singer, pole-dancer, and performance artist outed herself as a prostitute, or, as she put it, a “working girl,” and broke the news to her parents, during the show.

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