ALI LARTER - LARTER THROWS HERSELF INTO STRIP SCENES

HEROES actress ALI LARTER put all her energy into undressing for an episode of the U.S television show in a bid to be the 'world's best stripper'. Educating herself in lap-dancing clubs, Larter was not daunted by the prospect and spent "four hours a day for a whole week up and down a lap-dancer's pole". She says, "I thought, 'If I'm going to do this I'm going to be the best goddamn stripper the world has ever seen.' So I really threw myself into it." The ex-model and star of 1999 movie Varsity Blues insists she discovered 'a new-found respect' for women in the lap-dancing profession.