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I DANCED NAKED IN SHOWER FOR POUNDS 20
THE BIG BROTHER EXCLUSIVE: But I told Mum I was a librarian

EVICTED housemate Amma last night revealed how she used to dance naked in a shower for pounds 20 a time...and for another pounds 10 punters got to squirt her with water.

Before entering the Big Brother house, Amma, 23, made her living as a lapdancer - while telling her mum she was working as a librarian.

The "indecent proposal" was made by a middle-aged businessman at an exclusive strip club in London's Mayfair.

Outraged Amma refused - but yesterday admitted she wouldn't turn down an offer in excess of pounds 1million.

Speaking for the first time after her five weeks in the Big Brother house, she said: "I was always being offered money for sex but I never accepted it.

"For me to accept it would have to have been a life-changing offer because I would find it so hard to live with myself afterwards.

"My price would be a minimum of pounds 1million, but I'm anything but promiscuous. I have only had two or three serious boyfriends and I've slept with far fewer people than anyone else I know."

Amma, who worked for two-and-a-half years as a table dancer kept her seedy occupation secret from church-going mum, Juliana.

Last night the dancer revealed for the first time that she had told her mum she had worked as a shop assistant, a waitress and even a librarian.

She confided: "Telling my mum what I did for a living was one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever had to do. I knew she'd feel I had let her down.

"I hated myself for the lies I had told my mum but I wanted to protect her from worrying about me every single minute of every single day. I broke the news to her after telling her I was going on Big Brother two days before I went into the house.

"She thought Big Brother was fantastic but she broke down in floods of tears when I told her I took my clothes off for a living."

Amma who gained nine GCSEs and three A levels following a state education in North London, added: "My poor mum said, 'You are so clever and so pretty, you could do anything you want with your life. Why this?'

"She was devastated. I was so sorry for disappointing her but I didn't want the truth coming out on national television.

"She couldn't understand why I did it and still doesn't fully. We didn't row. She cried and I talked.

"Thankfully she phoned me the next day and told me she loved me no matter what I did. That was so important to me."

Amma's lavish lifestyle on the proceeds of her lap-dancing career is in stark contrast to her poverty-stricken childhood. She now pays pounds 1,000 a month to rent a trendy one-bedroom flat in a complex which has its own restaurant, gym and shop in East London. Her neighbours there are City high-fliers, television producers and models.

Amma insists that her step into the murky world of stripping was a spur of the moment decision she took after stumbling across a newspaper advertisement for "dancers."

A few days later she turned up at the Berkeley Playhouse in Mayfair for an audition. There she found herself being judged by Britain's first-ever Page Three girl Jilly Johnson and table dancer turned Bill actress Samantha Robin.

Amma recalled: "Suddenly the backing track from the James Bond film, Goldfinger, came booming out. I was a bag of nerves myself and wanting to burst into laughter all at the same time. I got on stage and danced down to my bra and knickers. I was useless but they told me on the spot I was hired."

Amma began to dance at the club four nights a week and took advantage of coaching sessions from the older girls. At that club the girls just danced down to sexy underwear.

"At first I didn't have a clue. I was disco-dancing around the stage like a mad thing. The other girls taught me how to slow down and be sexier.

"I got good at it but I never felt turned on. It's a silly job. You drink, you dance, chat to people and go home."

Amma, who appeared to flirt with Elizabeth during her time in the house, insists she is heterosexual and has a healthy respect for men, despite being leered at night after night.

"I'm as straight as they come. I like hot-blooded men as much as the next girl. I am not into women, although I can appreciate a beautiful woman. With Elizabeth it was purely friendship."

She insists that she was never on the receiving end of violence or threats during her lap-dancing career.

"After the Berkeley I moved on to Sophisticats, a club where we danced topless. Later I moved to the Metropolis Club in Hackney where we went completely naked."

Before entering the house, Amma (Ghanian for Born on Saturday) was revealing all for pounds 10 a time in darkened private booths. For pounds 20 girls do erotic shower dances - under gleaming glass waterfalls - and for an extra pounds 10 allow men to spray their naked forms with water guns.

They pay the club pounds 60 and keep the rest of their profits. The most popular girls can earn up to pounds 1,000 a night.

"I hate strippers who go on Trisha moaning about being exploited. I liked what I did and most of the men I danced for were nice, polite and friendly.

"Going from underwear to topless was a big step, but the Mayfair club closed and I didn't want a dull nine-to-five job. Going from topless to completely nude didn't bother me at all. Men don't look at the bottom bit anyway!

"It doesn't make much difference how much you take off - either way you are on show and vulnerable. People are looking at you, you are a bit of meat, a piece of steak. You are not a human being or personality."

Now Amma has promised her mother that she will never return to the murky world of stripping. "For my mum's sake I have given it up. I don't want to hurt her any more."

Amma's Ghanian mother was widowed when her husband was killed in a car crash. And she struggled to bring up Amma and her four siblings on her own.

Amma was just four when part-time taxi driver Mensah Antwi-Agyei was hit by a speeding car thought to be driven by a drunken drug addict, who escaped prosecution after claiming a friend had been driving.

Her mother was pregnant with younger brother Nana, now 18 and having suffered a back injury was forced to bring her family up on state benefits.

Amma spent the first five years of her life in a council flat in Watford, Hertfordshire before moving to a semi in Golders Green. Times were hard, particularly when Amma found herself being mercilessly bullied while a pupil at St Mary's Church of England secondary school.

"It was hard. Other pupils used to call me tramp and fleabag because it was clear my family had no money.

"My mum made sure we wanted for nothing but I sometimes had to wear my sister's hand-me-downs and there was no money for fashionable clothes.

"I didn't have a lot of friends and at that time I didn't stand up for myself and so I became an easy target."

In her the second year, following intervention from her furious mother, Amma moved to the nearby Copthall School with a new resolve to stand up for herself. It is a trait which she took into the Big Brother house.

Reluctant to make too much of her poverty-stricken roots, Amma added: "I don't want to make my life out to be a hard luck story. My childhood was happy because my mum did a good job of being both parents. She is my inspiration.

"We were poor but we never went hungry or anything. My mother even worked as a cleaner in my school to ensure we could go to after-school clubs and for music lessons. She never remarried. Her children became her life."

Amma insists that she never missed the presence of a father- figure in her life.

"I was four when my dad died and it is enough for me to know that he was a wonderful man. He was full of fun. My most treasured memory of him is him bursting through the front door in a Halloween mask.

"All I know is that he was killed in a car accident. I have never asked my mother any more about it. It was fate - it happened. There is no point wondering, what if?

"It was something that made me determined never to be caught in the poverty trap. There is no reason to be like that if you apply yourself. I also learned to live on limited funds."

So why did Amma, whose older brother Patrick, is a doctor in Ghana, and her sister Barbara, a bank worker, decide to become a lap dancer?

Having passed nine GCSEs and three A-levels, and with the deep religious influence of her Seventh Day Adventist mother, why choose such a shocking occupation?

"When I left school I worked as a shop assistant in Jane Morgan and had various waitressing jobs. I wasn't thrilled with what I was doing. It was so boring." Then she spotted the lap dancer advert.

"There's a big part of me that's a closet performer, the hairbrush singing in my bedroom and always wanting to be the lead in school plays. I like entertaining people, making them laugh and smile.

"And table dancing was just something completely different from anything I had done before."

Amma said she didn't finding being sprayed by men with water pistols as she danced for them under a shower demeaning.

She said: "It was just a bit of fun and an alternative way to table dance. More than anything I felt silly and I often find myself laughing. I think some guys did get a kick out of spraying me.

"Maybe it was a power thing and it was certainly the closest they got to touching you. But I think most other men just thought it was silly and a laugh."

She said the leap from dancing in her underwear to topless dancing was bigger than from going topless to completely naked.

"I am self-conscious about my breasts and so going topless was the hardest. I just don't like them generally and I wish they looked different, not bigger or smaller but just less of them, less skin and to me being in underwear is no different to sunbathing in a bikini on holiday."

So, if she gives up lap dancing, what next? Could she see herself in an "ordinary" job? "I certainly couldn't go back to earning pounds 4-an-hour as a shop assistant but money is not my main concern. I would like to earn pounds 18,000 to pounds 20,000 a year. My sister wants me to be a singer but my head is just too full right now to think about my future."

Looking around the five-star hotel where she is temporarily staying, she said: "I've hardly spoken to my friends or family and am desperate to catch up on all the awful things that have been said about me."

Amma hopes to soon see her boyfriend whom she met three weeks before the start of Big Brother. "It is a new relationship. He works in the graphic design world. He is neither rich nor poor. He's nice and that's all I'm saying."

With a mischievous grin, she said: "Yes I missed it as any person would. There weren't a great many opportunities in the house to release any kind of frustration."

Could that be why she farted and burped so much? "No doubt about it I do fart and burp more than the average person but it's a natural thing to do. I'm not embarrassed by it. I don't fart as regularly as it appeared. They showed every one."

Amma, who in the flesh is strikingly pretty and full of fun, confided that she is unhappy with the way she was portrayed in the house. "From day one I withdrew into myself because there were so many strong characters in the house," she said.

"I am argumentative but nowhere near as aggressive as I looked on TV. They have taken 24 hours and condensed it into 24 minutes. That doesn't do anyone any favours.

"I went on Big Brother to find out exactly how people would perceive me. I can't believe I have been billed as the most unpopular contestant." Despite her misgivings Amma has no regrets. "There are only a handful of people who have been inside the Big Brother house and know what it's like.

"I wanted to do something different and have a change. Say what you like, but at least I did it."

AMMA'S THOUGHTS ON HOUSE MATES

ON ELIZABETH: "I didn't fancy her. It was just friendship. I'm shocked people thought otherwise But she is a sweet, caring person. She was like the house mum, everyone's confidante and the person you would go to if things weren't so good."

ON NARINDER: "I felt much better when she had left. She was narrow-minded and didn't want to get to know people. She was just looking for a house full of 11 Narinders and what she got was what Big Brother should be about - a cross section of people."

ON STUART: "I said things I didn't always mean or feel during the arguments in the Jacuzzi. There were a few things that annoyed me about Stuart, but nothing huge. It's not a good idea to scream and rant at people when you have had a drink. But I would like to see him again, I've no bad feelings towards him over what happened."

ON HELEN: "She's lovely, bubbly and warm. She gets on with everyone and I can't see how anyone could say anything negative about her. More than anyone else in the house I hope she wins."

ON DEAN: "He's like a father figure. He's the house organiser. I wasn't really very close to him but I found him very intelligent and very sensible."

ON BRIAN: "A joker with a big heart - he could make you laugh and kept the tempo up in the house. That was very necessary in the Big Brother house because it's such a small and contained environment. I'm not surprised he's the favourite for the pounds 70,000 prize."

ON JOSH: "A difficult one. I liked him but he's a lot more serious than a lot of the people in the house. It's difficult for him because he had to come in two weeks after everyone else and get on with the group when we had already started to find our roles. I found him nice all the same."

ON PAUL: "He tried too hard to be your average bloke. All he did was talk about how many girls he'd slept with and booze. He was always repeating certain words over and over again like "fair play" and it was "mate" this, "mate" that - even when he was talking to the girls."

ON BUBBLE: "Of all the men in the house he was the one I was closest to. I was very sorry to see him go. Yes he was loud, he could be edgy sometimes and give the wrong impression, but he had a big heart."

ON PENNY: "I think Penny is a very nice person. She's got a big heart too and likes to look after people. It appeared she was going slightly mad but despite the things that annoyed me I found her to be bubbly and interesting. I only nominated her because I thought the best place for her was outside the Big Brother house."