Arlene Phillips: 'People say Strictly should never have fired me'

Arlene Phillips: 'People say Strictly should never have fired me'

“It was funny to me, all that noise around the costume Sabrina Carpenter wore at the Brit Awards,” says Dame Arlene Phillips. “Bra, corset, stockings and suspenders. That was the kind of sensual costume we wore in Hot Gossip back in the 1970s! I thought: ‘My gosh! Times haven’t changed, have they?’ People are still shocked by somebody performing on TV in the equivalent of a bikini – an outfit that millions of women chose to wear all over most of…