Muscles, murder and mayhem: Stripping back the layers on the Chippendales 

A new streaming series dramatises the dark history of the early days of the famous male stripper troupe 

 Quentin Plair in a scene from Welcome to Chippendales, on Disney+. 

When Kumail Nanjiani signed up to lead a new series based on the Chippendales, his knowledge of the male dance troupe, like many of us, was limited to risqué performances and a particular uniform.

“I knew it was a cultural phenomenon and had seen it [parodied by Patrick Swayze] as part of a Saturday Night Live sketch…” admits the Pakistani-American actor, 44.