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VICTORIA BECKHAM shows she's just like the rest of us by doing the housework in her new video. Except she wears a sexy nightie, fishnet stockings and stilettos instead of a pinny.
"Hi, you won't believe what I'm doing!" says the 29-year-old former Spice Girl at the start of her single, This Groove, as she vacuums while chatting on a diamante phone.
Other stars, including Denise Van Outen, Zoe Ball, Tara Palmer- Tomkinson, Ulrika Jonsson, Anna Ryder Richardson, Ruby Wax - oh, and Freddie Mercury - have posed as saucy housewives for raunchy photoshoots. But can housework ever be sexy?
Here, two Daily Mirror writers make the case for and against, and we bring you the celebs who have entries in Who's Hoover...
YES
By BILL BORROWS
TWO words: French maid. OK, three words: French maid's uniform. I was going to say the idea of women cleaning up after men has long been a male fantasy but, when you pause and think, the fantasy is more recent.
In the days when men went to work and women stayed at home, it was as unremarkable as night following day.
That was the deal. Men worked and women cleaned (and before the letters start flooding in, cleaning obviously qualifies as working and, no, I wouldn't want to clean up after a husband and five kids, but then I'm not married and haven't got five kids. Life is all about choices).
That is obviously ancient history. So the woman who does all the housework is now, like a naughty nurse or a French maid, something of an exotic fantasy figure. Or a Daily Mail reader who can't afford a cleaner.
Queen (the band, not the short woman who dishes-up breakfast in Tupperware containers in front of a three-bar fire) understood this and that is why the video for I Want...