Gemma’s strip club challenge

Although she brought along her Spanish husband Stefano Catelli to an awards ceremony recently, there is one place that stunning actress Gemma Arterton will not be taking him to - the strip club she is planning to visit.

Former Bond girl Gemma, 25, tells me she is off to study strippers after filmmaker Neil Jordan cast her as a lady of the night in his next movie. “I play a prostitute called Clara. It’s a tough role but more and more I am choosing parts that are as different from the real me as possible.

“I’m not scared of a challenge. I prefer it that way,” she tells me.

Gemma, who married sales manager Stefano last summer in a ceremony in Andalucia, adds that to get into the part properly she will have to visit some less than salubrious venues.

“I’m going to have to go to a strip club or somewhere like that,” says Gemma, who was giving out the best actor gong at the Evening Standard theatre awards.

“It’s something I’m dreading because I am a real prude and I know that in places like that my immediate reaction is to feel “eugh”.

“But I’ve got to understand it’s something I need to do for the part. I will not be going with my husband.” - Daliy Mail