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http://www.news.com.au/national/priv...-1226128513292

Pole dancer left feeling exposed

IT took British teen Catherine Howard less than a minute to do a naked pole dance in a late-night dare.

Little did she know, she was being filmed.

That moment of nudity has turned into a night of infamy for the English backpacker after the vision was broadcast on Australian and international television.

Her image has since been posted on the internet and viewed by thousands worldwide, including her "disgusted" and "ashamed" parents in Kendal, in the UK's Lakes District.

"It's gone viral," an embarrassed Ms Howard, 19, said yesterday. "I felt very humiliated about it the next day, let alone to discover it had been captured on film and shown to the world.

"My family back home in the UK are refusing to talk to me and friends in the United States (said) they've seen it too."

She was playing a "truth or dare" card game with a group of friends on August 5 when she took up a challenge to strip off outside the Asylum hostel in inner-city Cairns about 2.30am.

The art student admits it was in public. "But I feel there has been a really big invasion of my privacy," she said.

She was captured on film as part of an 18-month feud over noise complaints between neighbours and the hostel, with the video handed to Channel 9's A Current Affair by one annoyed resident, Bruce Passfield.

"She negated all rights to privacy when she took her clothes off and put on a show in the middle of the street," the former federal police officer said.

"I'm not snooping into their backyard. I just wanted to collect evidence to stop all the nudity, dope smoking and late-night Pommie soccer chants."

So... anyone seen/got the video?