While we were still operating out of Trenz club in Stoke Newington, Encantado was paid a visit by Vanessa Feltz, who fell in love with the dance, and generously wrote all about her experience in her regular column in 'OK!' Magazine.

Issue 252

"Since sabotaging the Gay Gardens in the gym at school, I have never been to a dancing class, but on Wednesday night, personal trainer to the stars Dennis Duhaney and I ventured into deepest, darkest Stoke Newington and up the stairs of a club called Trenz. There, Derrick, the sexiest dancer since Patrick Swayze, teaches all-comers to do the slinkiest, sauciest salsa this side of Rio de Janeiro. Frankly, I was terrified and so sure I'd make an absolute plonker of myself. Within seconds, though, seduced by the beat, Derrick's gyrating rear and the dizzy daze of swapping partners every three minutes, I was swooping and swaying like the girl from blinking Ipanema. It cost five pounds and, without exaggeration, I can categorically state that I had one of the best-ever evenings since I left the womb. At the end of the lesson, Derrick dims the lights and turns DJ. Freestyle salsa of a distinctly X-rated variety ensues. Suffice to say, Dennis and I didn't quit Stokie until midnight and I was so blissed-out I didn't realise my Jimmy Choos were killing me until I limped, in agony, to Duhaney's chariot..."

Issue 253

"Every night is salsa night as the craze has exploded into an epidemic. Mr Salsa, Derrick, whose Stoke Newington class Dennis Duhaney and I adored, turns out not only to be a film choreographer, but also gives private salsa lessons to none other than Jude Law and Sadie Frost. He invited us to the Genesis Cinema in the Mile End Road - the buzzing East End again - for the launch of the trilogy of films, including Soul Patrol in which Sadie stars and salsas... apparently, Sadie and Jude are now such salsa addicts they have lessons at ten in the morning!..."