That’s what you call an exposé

Tyra Banks really throws herself into her job as a talk-show host – often in ways only a recently retired supermodel can.

On today’s show (11 a.m., KHQ-6 in Spokane), Banks will be shown going “undercover” as a stripper at a topless club, although the former Victoria’s Secret model stops short of complete disclosure.

In the past, she’s posed as a Las Vegas showgirl and used her face as canvas for makeup lessons.

The stripper segment, she says, was the result of hearing friends and viewers express frustration about the men in their lives spending time and money in strip clubs.

“When I found out the majority of business is from males from married homes, I wanted to go inside the minds of the men who frequent these clubs. I wanted to see and hear why they went. And the only way to do that was to go undercover and see for myself,” she says.

Spears leaves her mark

Britney Spears spent part of Mardi Gras with a group of students whose lives were upended when Hurricane Katrina devastated the area six months ago.

The 24-year-old pop star, a Louisiana native, talked on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Tuesday of her recent meeting with four students from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School of New Orleans.

After surprising them at a breakfast gathering, Spears took the girls shopping and to dine at one of Cajun chef Emeril Lagasse‘s restaurants. She also gave them fleur-de-lis pins on blue ribbons.

Quick, hide the good China

The Rolling Stones will play their first concert in China on April 8, promoters announced Tuesday, three years after canceling a pair of shows on the mainland because of the SARS outbreak.

Before those previous dates, the Chinese government ordered Mick Jagger and company not to perform four songs – “Brown Sugar,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Beast of Burden” and “Let’s Spend the Night Together” – presumably because of their racy content.

Promoters said they did not know whether that demand was being repeated.

After all, he is the walrus

Paul McCartney will travel to the ice floes off the Canadian Maritimes this week to observe seal pups before the country’s annual hunt opens, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

The former Beatle and his wife, Heather Mills McCartney, both longtime animal-rights activists, will head out to the frigid ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Thursday and Friday in their bid to prompt Ottawa to end the annual hunt of seals.

Generally the hunt runs from mid-March through mid-April, but the unseasonably mild winter has put the hunt date on hold.

The birthday bunch

Singer Harry Belafonte is 79. Actor Robert Conrad is 71. Singer Roger Daltrey is 62. Actor Alan Thicke (“Growing Pains”) is 59. Actor-director Ron Howard is 52. Actress Catherine Bach (“The Dukes of Hazzard”) is 52. Actor Tim Daly is 50. Actor George Eads (“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”) is 39. Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar (“NYPD Blue”) is 32. “Blues Clues” host Donovan Patton is 28. Singer Sammie is 19.