Almost four million people have clicked on Tricia Walsh-Smith's YouTube video to listen to her vent about her now-ex husband Philip Smith, president of the Shubert Organisation, which owns 17 Broadway theatres.

The 54-year-old blonde was trying to get a better deal in her divorce by revealing details of their private life, including claiming that they had not had sex since they married nine years previously.

The ploy failed - she got just $750,000 from the multi-millionaire - but Walsh-Smith has been able to turn her moment of notoriety into a place on the hit British reality show Pineapple Dance Studios. The series, based in a London dance studio, is full of flamboyant characters with egos the size of the old fruit warehouse that gave the studios its name.

Walsh-Smith says she was spotted by the filmmakers when she started taking dance lessons as part of a plan to write a musical called Arm Candy. A playwright before her marriage, she claims to have been blackballed from theatres by her husband and so has taken to writing for gay clubs.

"I thought it was like a serious documentary, I had no idea how wacko it would be," she said. "I was supposed to be in one or two episodes but they fell in love with me and I ended up in the whole show as one of the stars."

Walsh-Smith spent our 20-minute phone conversation vacillating between healthy self-esteem and self-pity. As a divorce victim, she says she wants to form a women's movement called Divorcees Unanonymous to support women like her who are being thrown to the dogs.

Very worthy, except Walsh-Smith has been divorced three times so it is hard to believe she is as naive as she claims to be. Then she adds that there is talk about developing Divorcees Unanonymous into a TV show.

The no-sex thing is another grey area in her version of her life.

"I did not know I was going into a marriage that was sexless - before we had a healthy sex life and the minute we got married it was over. He said the doctor had changed his blood pressure medication and it made him, you know. I called up his doctor, tried to get his medication changed.

"Everyone says, 'How could you have not had sex for all those years, weren't you tempted?' I say if you meet a really hot guy you are going to be tempted but I was on Broadway where there is no temptation.

"The only time I ever shivered and thought, 'Whoa, he's hot', is when I had lunch with Hugh Jackman." Then the interview is over and Walsh-Smith says, "Well, at least I made you laugh."