Kenny Everett’s TV show introduced which sexy dance troupe?
Kenny Everett offered him a new venture, which became the "Kenny Everett Video Show". This was a vehicle for Everett's characters and sketches (his fellow writers were Ray Cameron, Barry Cryer and Dick Vosburgh), interspersed with the latest pop hits, either performed by the artists themselves, or as backing tracks to dance routines by Arlene Phillips' risqué dance troupe Hot Gossip (which featured Sarah Brightman). Various pop and TV stars made cameo appearances on the show, including Rod Stewart, Elkie Brooks, Billy Connolly, Kate Bush, Cliff Richard, Freddie Mercury, Terry Wogan and Suzi Quatro (see also "Friends" section below) and classical musicians
The Kenny Everett Video Show series were: Everett's last New Year's special, "The Kenny Everett New Year's Daze Show" aired at 11.50pm on New Year's Eve 1980 over most of the ITV network. Ulster Television never aired the special, while Grampian and Scottish broadcast it two days later. The final series, renamed "The Kenny Everett Video Cassette", saw the show moved to Thursday evenings at 7.30pm in a bid to compete with BBC1's "Top of the Pops". Unhappy with the scheduling of the series, among other issues, Everett left Thames and moved to BBC Television. Musical guests that appeared in this series were: During the