Former Wild Child Emma Ridley: Still In Pole Position!

There’s nothing like a bit of California living for us Brits, we can’t get enough of it and every year the numbers of us emigrating to Los Angeles just seems to go up.

At a guess, I reckon it’s mainly for the sunshine, but a certain word springs to mind when I think about some of the ’showbizzy’ ex-pats who have upped sticks seeking fame and fortune on these shiny shores… and that is – Reinvention! Basically they can’t get arrested back home in the UK so they come over here in search of a new dream.

Something former 1980’s Wild Child, Emma Ridley knows a thing or two about, I’d say. Remember her? Emma was that sassy sexy girl who found fame dancing topless on table tops in trendy London nightclubs at the tender age of 14 then shocked the nation by eloping to Las Vegas at the age of 15 to marry party boy Robert Pereno – 15 years her senior.

In the past Emma’s been a ballet dancer, an actress, a TV presenter, a socialite, a songwriter, a rapper and of course all-round media strumpet!

It would seem however, that some things in Ridley’s life never change, now on her THIRD marriage, Emma has decided to make a decent living out of her once notoriously stylish headline-grabbing sexy dancing routines and at 37, has started a pole dancing school – Goddess Fitness Dance – where she says her aim is to turn bored housewives into stunning goddesses… No, really, she said that!

And judging by this sexy pic of Ridley taken two weeks ago in the California dessert by top British photographer, Robert Yeager, Emma tells me, “After being the center of attention I had become a bored frumpy housewife going out of my mind,” She added, “Then one day I looked in the mirror and thought I’ve got to do something about this so I started pole dancing and I was amazed at what it did for my figure, then I started teaching it and opened the school.”

After giving birth to three children, I think Emma might be onto something here and not an airbrush in sight, you have to admit however, she’s looking rather HOT!

Now Emma is so confident she can get you in shape by climbing on the pole (er, no pun intended) she has offered the readers of this column and British Weekly newspaper a free class at her school in Santa Clarita. She said, “If you want to have some fun and get in shape at the same time, bring this copy of the British Weekly to the class and you’ll get a free session, I promise you will want to come back!”

And it seems Ms. Ridley might well be back on our screens soon too, she is currently filming a reality pilot  – ‘Spoiled Rotten’ which basically follows her plans to launch to a SECOND pole dancing school in West Hollywood. Whatever next…

For more on Emma’s pole dancing classes, go to: www.goddessfitnessdance.com.

And for the readers who aren’t aware of Emma Ridley, watch the video below!

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