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A retired assassin claims he was offered a big sum by the boss of the Chippendales to kill two rival male strippers with cyanide.
The seasoned hitman, who used to operate under the name 'Strawberry', has revealed he was once promised $50,000 (£38,000) if he flew to Blackpool from the United States inject the buff performers with the deadly poison.
He told the upcoming Secrets of the Chippendales Murders documentary that Steve Banerjee, the millionaire founder of the Chippendales, made the proposition in the early 1990s after the new breakaway Adonis dance group threatened his business.
Strawberry had accepted the offer back in Los Angeles as he feared he would become a "liability" and potentially be killed himself if he refused, reports The Sun.
Soon after he picked up the cyanide and some syringes from Banerjee’s 'fixer' Ray Colon, and was told to inject the men as they approached the adoring crowd.
He then took the items in his luggage on the plane over to the UK, which he joked he was not nervous about at the time of the incident because back at the time airport staff "didn't seemed (sic) like they gave a sh**".
Strawberry found himself unprepared for the chilly weather on the north west coast, as he had "only had short sleeve shirts, no coat", and wasn't fond of the local food.
And by the time he arrived at the Winter Gardens venue in the seaside resort he had a change of heart, telling the documentary: “I was afraid of getting busted.
"I thought this ain’t worth a damn. I am getting out of here.
“That is when I ditched the cyanide and the syringes. I entertained the thought of going to the English police but I thought they would throw my a**e in jail or the nut house."
After Strawberry got back to the US he agreed to take part in a wire-tapped call with Colon, leading to a swoop on the fixer's property not long afterwards — where they found quantities of cyanide large enough to kill 2,500 people.
Under questioning he sensationally confessed that Banerjee had ordered the hits on the Adonis men as well as the unsolved murder of Chippendales co-director Nick De Noia in 1987.
Banerjee eventually took his own life in a Los Angeles jail cell.
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