Once home, my new satin leopard print bedding did indeed look the kind of decor Peter Stringfellow or Bet Lynch might have favoured, and it was so slippery that I routinely slid out of bed onto ...

and the reign of Coronation Street’s Bet Lynch whose combination of leopard print, peroxide hair and acrylic nails, lent leopard a trashy air. When the Spice Girls descended into pop culture in ...