Mum-of-four's life running a gentleman's club

A mum-of-four who opened a 'gentlemen's club' without having set foot in one before said she had a 'mad' experience which she still gets flashbacks about.

When she was in her early twenties Amy Gwynn, started the Rude Gentleman's Club. She told podcaster James English that the idea came at a time when her DJ boyfriend was struggling to find work.

Amy said: "He wasn't earning the money he was before, and all of a sudden we went from having all this freedom to having nothing. We were in a one-bedroom flat."

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With a duty to provide for her young child, Amy, then a model, was brainstorming methods to generate some additional income. It was her partner who proposed kickstarting Rude, on Duke Street, Liverpool.

She said: "He started talking about strip clubs and said 'you can earn a lot of money off them because you've got different ways of earning revenue. You've got your bar, you can charge on the door."

Amy, reports The Echo, arranged for some space in the basement of a club where her boyfriend used to DJ, but after that the hurdle was finding dancers. She added: "I remember going down to audition them. At this point I'd never been a dancer and I'd never been in a strip club, so I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know what I was looking for.

"I was sat there and I said to them 'do you want to do a dance?'. I had taken my friend with me because I was so nervous."

Amy, now 36, added: "These girls come and they start dancing I remember sh*****g myself. This one girl, she started dancing. I still remember the song it was Jason Derulo's In My Head, and every time it comes on like it just gives me flashbacks.

"It was so mad. I