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The showgirl sisterhood: five former variety stars look back at their wild careers – in pictures

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The showgirl sisterhood: five former variety stars look back at their wild careers – in pictures

The ‘Golden girls of Eastbourne’ first crossed paths more than 50 years ago.

They recall flammable feather head-dresses, wardrobe malfunctions and topping the bill over the Beatles I hear the Golden Girls of Eastbourne before I see them – hooting laughter leaking out of a house in the East Sussex seaside town.

Inside, I find five energetic women in their 80s and 90s, sitting in a knick-knack-filled living room and talking over one another like teenagers.

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