
Martha Stewart Sees a Future in Pole Dancing

Jan. 21 2010, Published 7:23 a.m. ET

Martha Stewart’s pole-dancing video has become an Internet sensation after she performed the stripper moves on her show Monday, but she now discounts the frisky romp.
“I didn’t do a stripping routine,” she tells me with a chuckle Wednesday during the American Antiques Show opening night gala benefiting the American Folk Art Museum held at NYC’s Metropolitan Pavillion. “I did the pole dancing, it’s called.”
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She adds, “It’s a fabulous exercise. I look at it as an exercise.”
The 68-year-old domestic doyenne is “impressed” she didn’t wake up sore, and “definitely” will return to a class next week.
What moves does she most want to learn?
“The last one that she did – upside down,” she says. “That’s the one I’m gonna to learn. Next week, I’ll be doing it.”
See her dirty dancing clip from The Martha Stewart Show: