Diana Dors Adam and the Ants music video "Prince Charming", where she played the fairy godmother opposite Adam Ant, who played a male Cinderella figure. Having turned her life story into a cash flow through interviews and leaked tabloid stories, like many celebrities in their later careers, she turned to the autobiography to generate retirement cash. Between 1978 and 1984, she published four autobiographical books under her own name: "For Adults Only", "Behind Closed Dors", "Dors by Diana", and "A. to Z. of Men". Having gone through her first round of cancer treatment, by the early 1980s Dors' hour-glass figure had become
Adam Ant I was halfway through making "Prince Charming", and so on, because we had to bring out an album and four singles a year. But the price you pay... I split my cartilage in Cleveland doing "Goody Two Shoes", it was my body saying, 'Look, no!' Then I was back onstage doing the Motown 25 [in 1983] show 10 days later, having had the operation. Nobody could have stopped me, or make me do it. I did it. I was very, very bad at pacing," he later remembered. In March 1982, feeling certain band members "lacked enthusiasm" Ant disbanded the group.