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Jenny Rodger

Stars to get naked and reveal VERY personal reasons for baring all on TV

Ashley Banjo, Alexander Armstrong, Coleen Nolan and Victoria Derbyshire are back leading two new troupes as they prepare to reveal all.

New recruits will face up to stage fright and body issues as they learn routines choreographed by Ashley.

On Monday, the boys take to the stage, then on Tuesday it’s the girls’ turn to go the Full Monty (for one night only).

We caught up with some of the big names involved to hear why getting naked is so important...

The boys

‘Everybody leaves feeling more happy with themselves,’ says Ashley Banjo of the final revealing performance.

‘They’re a little bit more empowered, which I take a lot of pride in. Because it’s the third year with the men it was like, “What do we do?

'How can we make people as interested and raise as much awareness?”

'We ripped up the rule book.’

We’ll have to wait to see how the show dance differs from previous years, but the security guard uniforms have been traded in for an Officer and a Gentleman vibe.

Love Island winner Jack Fincham had a very personal reason for getting involved.

‘My nan’s got cancer,’ he says.

‘It started as breast cancer 11 years ago.

She can never get rid of it, they just try to help her along.

‘I just want to make her proud.

And if we can go and get naked in front of millions of people to raise awareness, there’s no reason a man can’t go to the doctor.

It could potentially save his life.’

The girls

‘I came back because the last show is the best thing I’ve done in my whole career,’ says Coleen Nolan, whose sister Bernie died of cancer in 2013.

‘If you had eight women who were a size eight, you’d get women at home saying, “Of course they don’t mind, they look fabulous”.

But when they see someone like me, they go, “Why am I embarrassed to go to my doctor if she’ll do that on stage?”

I never really talk about Bernie, or my sister Linda, who has secondary cancer, because it’s too hard.

But Linda came to watch our dress rehearsal and we were both so emotional. She thought it was fantastic.’

Coleen Nolan breaks down in tears as she recalls the experience of baring all to the nation in The Real Full Monty 

TOWIE’s Danielle Armstrong’s friend Sammi died of breast cancer when she was just 29.

‘We were like sisters,’ says Danielle.

‘When this show was on last year I didn’t want to watch because she was being told she had two weeks to live.

‘Before Sammi, none of my friends checked their breasts.

But if I get a girl my age or younger to think and check, we genuinely are saving lives.’

The All New Monty is on Mon & Tue 9pm ITV

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