The Holy Hottie
First shown on Channel 4 in October 2006
Is nothing sacred? Ex-stripper Heather Veitch finds God and convinces the members of her church to take Christ to workers in the sex industry.
America's sex industry is big business and involves hundreds of thousands of people as workers and punters. Many of the workers are exploited, humiliated, belittled and insulted – but they have no other way of earning their living.
Former stripper Heather Veitch finds a welcome at Sandals Church in California, and turns her life around. She wants to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and reach out to society's outcasts, to her former colleagues who work as lap dancers, porn actors and prostitutes. So she sets up 'JC's Girls', a group of women from the church, who go to lap dancing clubs, pay for private time with the women who work there, and use that time to talk to them about Christianity.
JC's Girls create a website that will appeal to sex workers but also lead them towards the church. The press has a field day, and the coverage is not positive. But Heather knows this is free publicity, and the Pastor of Sandals Church, Matt Brown, gives her his blessing. In fact he gives her a salary so she and JC's Girls can devote time to their mission among America's exploited sex workers.
The congregation, though, are beginning to rebel. Matt Brown takes a risk: he says that God can use any individual to change the world, even those the media call sluts and whores. He asks if the congregation are with him or against him in his support of Heather's mission. One by one, they all declare their support. JC's Girls can go on converting the fallen.
