Calendar girls getting nude for charity again

Calendar girls getting nude for charity again

The original "Calendar Girls" have taken their clothes off for charity again 10 years after they first inspired a Hollywood movie and started a national craze for nude calendars.

Wearing little more than a smile and a trademark set of pearls, six members of the Yorkshire-based Women's Institute have been reunited for a new 2010 calendar.

The youngest of them, Chris Clancy, is now 57; the oldest, Beryl Bamforth, is 75. They are pictured in typical WI scenes, their modesty protected only by a baby-grand piano, a tea pot and sprouting broccolli on a vegetable patch.

The women launched the full colour calendar for Leukaemia Research at Harvey Nicholls in Leeds yesterday.

Angela Baker, 63, whose husband's death from lymphoma led to the idea for the first calendar, was surprised that people were celebrating their reunion.

The 2010 calendar is the first to be shot in colour rather than sepia.

Mrs Baker, 63, who can be seen playing the piano in February, said: "I was a bit apprehensive about colour, because older women can look a bit funny in colour, and we wanted it to be just as good as the first one.