Ron holiday biography wiki

Strangerrrrr than Fiction

Cat Dancers is a deeply odd trip into the world of Ron Holiday, complete with wild cats, love triangles, spandex and—ultimately—tragedy.

By Steve Korver, , cover feature, Amsterdam Weekly.

There’s no way not to be dramatic about this story: bisexual boy meets girl, they get married and together they rule the world as a professional dancing couple—‘limos, champagne, everything’.

This is how the lives of Ron and Joy Holiday began. All was glitter and gold. And spandex.

When their bodies started breaking down, they started to move into animal acts—spurred on by their friend William Holden, the star of Sunset Boulevard, who first gave them a black leopard as a gift.

The act grew and they needed a third party which came in the form of a handsome, and much younger, exotic animal trainer Chuck Lizza.

Joy said: ‘I saw him first.’ Later