Ashley Banjo, leader of street dance troupe Diversity, had the tricky job of turning a group of school dinner ladies into trained dancers for his new TV series, “Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew.” However, they did him – and themselves – proud, swapping their regulation embroidered polo shirts for pink baseball caps to perform a street dance routine in front of hundreds of primary school children.

For those who customise hoodies for a living, Sunday evenings on Sky have become required viewing. Secret Street Crew follows straight on from Got to Dance, in which personalized t shirts and hoodies also play a major part – even featuring in the sponsored ads. The third live semi-final was broadcast on February 12th, immediately before a group of Kent dinner ladies got into the groove with Ashley.

Street Crew showcases, as they say, ordinary people doing extraordinary things. It’s a winning formula that sees Ashley Banjo – in a succession of customised hoodies and baseball caps – teach a challenging hip-hop routine to a group of novices, which they then perform in front of a surprised audience. On February 5th, a group of Fantasy Role Play enthusiasts watched Diversity perform in personalized t shirts bearing the vibrantly printed words “Dance is Power.” They then had to learn the routine and perform it – this time wearing v-neck sweaters, for a LARP event.

This week, a bunch of canteen ladies of assorted shapes and ages cast off the embroidered polo shirts they wore as work uniform and beat out a tattoo on pans and colanders – before launching into a hip-hop routine that would have challenged youngsters half their age.