HOLLYWOOD is full of celebrities who got their start by taking their clothes off. But in a perverse twist, a growing number of male celebrities are finding that stripping may be a solid way to resuscitate a career as well.

The former teen heartthrob Joey Lawrence announced last week that he will host the Chippendales show in Las Vegas — an all-male revue of muscle-bound men famous for wearing black bow ties and little else. Other celebrity hosts have included Jeff Timmons, formerly of the boy band 98 Degrees; Ronnie Ortiz-Magro of “Jersey Shore”; and Jake Pavelka, the steel-jawed pilot who starred in “The Bachelor.”

The roster is hardly A-list, but male stripping does seem to be having a moment. Steven Soderbergh’s coming film about male strippers, “Magic Mike,” has Hollywood buzzing about celebrity beefcake.

Image Jake Pavelka, the steel-jawed pilot who starred in “The Bachelor.” Credit... Judy Eddy/Wenn.com

Or, as The Huffington Post called it in an article about male celebrities like Javier Bardem who have tried stripping, perhaps this is “the age of the male stripper.”