Showbiz icon Delores Frimpong-Manso, popularly known as Delay, has responded to a News-One publication that she was involved in a secret strip-tease business in Milan, Italy.

Though Delay had gone wild with anger when News-One first reached her over the story and she directed the paper to speak to her lawyers, she made a quick u-turn after the publication, agreeing to speak to the paper after the story made the headlines. “Yes I was in Milan and I went to a couple of clubs in the area you are talking about but I never stripped naked. I danced all right because every normal person would sway to good music but I never did a strip tease. It was a personal dance I did and let her who has never visited a club to enjoy good music throw the first stone at me,” Delay told News-One in a telephone interview.

When asked what her mission in Milan was, Delay said she had the constitutional right to visit any country of her choice without seeking permission from any media house, News-One included.

“I saw her myself. I was in a club at Corso Buenos Aires and she was there with three other girls. They were all dancing strip tease and I gathered that was why she slimmed down so as to boost her market,” a source from Milan told News-One, and this was the basis on which the story was put out.

When Delay was initially contacted by the paper and asked whether she was recently in Milan, her response was positive. She was then asked if she ever visited a club at Corso Buenos Aires and again her response was positive. The paper then asked if the club was a strip club and suddenly Delay was furious and said the paper should direct the questions at her lawyer.

Meanwhile, Delay, on her trip to Milan, did not travel with her lawyer. She later sent a text message to the paper’s Editor threatening to go to court if he went ahead with the story. As at the time of going to bed with the story, Delay had still not provided an answer on whether or not she indeed stripped and danced in the club.

News-One checks revealed that Delay is a very close friend to a popular celebrity who owns a night club in Accra and that night club is known for organizing strip teases at is VIP section.

Indeed the owner of the said club is herself a former sex dancer. Though not confirmed beyond doubt, the owner of the said club and Delay were said to have taken a couple of Ghanaian girls to Milan and given them out to agents for the strip tease business.

At age 28 plus, Delay insists she is still a virgin. By all standards, she is an accomplished lady for her age. She has a mid morning show on radio and has a talk show on three television stations.

She also goes by the name ‘Efia Targor’ and is not a pushover in celebrity circles. News-One can confirm she has bought a house at East Legon in Accra and has just bought a new ride, a 2006 Infiniti QX56 4x4 which is yet to be registered.