Gravure idols on television

Gravure has long been a route into variety television. In the 2000s most variety shows kept a regular slot for a gravure performer, and several of the best-known names of that decade went on to host programmes, comment on current affairs and act. Stricter compliance on terrestrial television has reduced those bookings since the 2020s, and new names now tend to break through elsewhere, for example as ring girls on boxing broadcasts.