Arlene Phillips the Dance Judge Panel with Greg James and Lee Mack. In Britain, Phillips first became a household name as the director and choreographer of Hot Gossip, a British dance troupe which she formed in 1974, using students she was teaching at the time. Hot Gossip spent two years performing in a London night club where Phillips and her manager developed the group's dance act. The troupe were spotted by the British television director, David Mallet who invited Phillips to make Hot Gossip a regular feature of "The Kenny Everett Show", which he directed for Thames Television on ITV, first being
Grand Union (dance group) Grand Union" as a name to avoid any obvious associations with dance in order to inoculate themselves against charges that what they were doing was not properly "dance". To avoid problems with the supermarket chain of the same name, the group used the legal name "Rio Grand Union". Dance artists involved with Grand Union included Others who performed as guests or rehearsed with the group include: About 6 to 9 dancers would appear for each performance, which generally lasted about 2 hours. In 1982, David Gordon, one of the regular performers, described one concert in Ohio: [A]n audience of 200