Channing Tatum has got women going wild again.

The second film about the life of a male stripper ‘Mike’ has seen cinemas across the UK packed out in recent months.

But, one Walthamstow man makes Tatum's character look like a rookie – move over Channing – Walthamstow has its own 'Magic Mike'.

Brian Jason, now 67, stripped for over 25 years for crowds of up to 2,500 women at the peak of his career.

He travelled the world and made a good living out of taking off his clothes.

“I was on a beach in St Ives, and this agent came up to me and said would I be interested in male stripping,” he recalled.

“I told her not in a million years. Then, when the season dried up I called her and I went down to Canvey Island.

“There were five or six hundred women screaming their heads off and I thought, ‘oh no I can’t do it’.

“They said come back tomorrow and there were even more. They opened the doors and pushed me onto the stage and locked them behind me.

“I just took all my clothes off and they did a write up in the paper. Apparently you weren’t supposed to get fully naked.

“The next day the agents started ringing.”

For the next two decades Brian travelled the world making a living out of stripping. He even formed part of a four-piece stripping group called ‘Extreme Force’ at one point.

He made a big name for himself in the world of stripping being booked to do shows in Germany, Holland and even Japan.

“I used to go to the gym and have 45 minute dance lessons – to make sure we had the moves. Of course, there were a few embarassing moments on stage.

"I used to go into the audience and get the women to rub lotion into me, they loved it."

But Brian admits he has not seen the Magic Mike films.

“I’ve seen the trailers.

“I reckon I could teach them a thing or two.

“It’s just the same routines that get recycled. I would dance to all kinds of things, Elvis and Bon Jovi and the Hippy Hippy Shake.

“It’s like payback for the women. The men always had their stag nights, now women like their own nights.”

Despite his initial reluctance to get into the stripping game, Brian didn’t give it up until he was 45.

“I lied about my age,” he said.

“I wanted to carry on so I said I was younger.

"But it got to the point I couldn't carry on. I was getting in the car for a 300 mile trip and I wasn't looking forward to it anymore. It's really tiring being on the road all the time."

In April 2002 he took to the stage one more time for a charity performance to raise funds for Whipps Cross Hospital.