It's not the first activity you would associate with TV celebrity Vanessa Feltz.

But the star joined teacher Binny Hawketts and student Antoinette St Clair-Winston to spend a day pole dancing as part of a documentary examining whether it has shed its sleazy image.

By the end, Vanessa realised there was more to it than popping on a pair of slinky stilettos and writhing on a shiny pole.

She said: "I do really think it's good exercise for your thighs, your bum, your arms, the whole thing ... even parts between I won't mention.

"I'd say it was the least erotic experience of my life so far. It took the non-erotic biscuit. I had a great time learning the moves and we sure did make Brighton rock."

The day began in the dance studio to learn a few basics before moving on to the Pussycat Club in Hove to watch the professionals in action.

Antoinette, 53, who runs alternative clothing store Rag Freak, in Cranbourne Street, Brighton, said from the moment she met Vanessa until the end of the day when they performed a sequence together on Brighton beach, she was up for anything.

She said: "She was so fun and wanted to have a laugh. She was a bit apprehensive at first. But by the end she was loving it."

Antoinette calls herself a fledgling pole dancer. She was enticed to Binny's classes when she read about them in The Argus and completed a beginners' course.

She said: "I wanted to do something that was not stereotypical for my age. It captured my imagination and I thought it would make me a bit fitter. It is actually very sexy."

Binny, 24, of Heath Road, Haywards Heath, has been dancing for about six years and teaching with Polestars for two years.

She said: "I think Vanessa was a bit daunted but really threw herself into it."

Vanessa's antics will be shown on Inside Out on BBC1 on Monday, November 1, at 7.30pm.