A father-of-one stunned his wife of twenty-five years after revealing his secret love of POLE DANCING. 52-year-old Andrew Knox, confessed to Carole, 50, when she discovered his stash of skimpy hot pants and pole fitness DVDs at their home in Felixstowe, Suffolk. Determined to improve his health and get fit, Andrew took up pole classes, but did not tell wife Carole, fearing she would demand he hang up his hot pants. Andrew says: "I knew it was an unusual form of fitness and I was worried about what she might think."
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A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
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VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
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NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .
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