Chiefs’ Chris Jones to go ‘Full Monty,’ strip on national TV. He has a good reason

We know Kansas City Chiefs players are a charitable bunch, working at food pantries, reading to kids. Last year defensive tackle Chris Jones handed out food at the Ronald McDonald House of Kansas City.

He wore an apron over his clothes that day, but for his next big charity event he’s going to be wearing less. A lot less.

He’s stripping down, going “Full Monty.”

And the woman who choreographed Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour will show him how.

Jones and five other male celebrities will learn how to strip down in a two-hour Fox special called “The Real Full Monty” to raise awareness for prostate, testicular and colorectal cancer testing and research.

The cast includes “Black-ish” star Anthony Anderson, who is also executive producer, fellow actors Taye Diggs, James Van Der Beek and Tyler Posey, and “Dancing With the Stars” judge Bruno Tonioli.

Fox describes the men as “daring” and they will dare to show off just enough to be cheeky, though we don’t know how flagrant they will be.

The show is a spin on the 1997 Oscar-nominated movie “The Full Monty,” in which six unemployed men in England become a male striptease act.

Viewers will watch the six celebs “train and rehearse for the most revealing performance of their careers, culminating with a big strip-tease dance” in front of a live audience, according to Fox.

They will learn those moves from Emmy-winning choreographer Mandy Moore, who has created dance moves for the reality show “So You Think You Can Dance” and movies including “La La Land” and “Silver Linings Playbook.”

Swift tapped the Colorado native to create the choreography for the Eras Tour. Dancing is not Swift’s strong suit, as she would say herself, but fans have praised her new moves.

Football fans know her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, can move on the field — and has some smooth touchdown dances. But what about his teammate?

“Leading up to the final disrobing, the men will push their limits of comfortability, modesty and brotherhood with a series of rehearsals and experiences, both private and public, designed to build confidence and remove them far from their comfort zone and strengthen their bond as a group,” said Fox.

During the show, each celeb will share stories of how cancer has affected their lives.

In 2017 Jones visited the University of Kansas Health System’s Cancer Center when the team contributed to a $200,000 grant to a researcher there. Jones was so moved by the work of Mary Markiewicz and the work done at the center that he offered Chiefs tickets to all the researchers he met that day.

“Since they let me in and showed me their field of work, I wanted to invite them to my field of work,” said Jones, who stayed behind to see more even after his official tour was over.

“You know, you never really think about the people behind the job. All you know is that people get cancer, and they’re trying to find a way to fight it. I was actually seeing what they go through and how they do it.”

“Full Monty” shows like this are an annual event in the U.K. and have been produced in the Netherlands, Australia and France. (The British special shows bare bums.)

Prostate cancer is second only to lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in American men.

“Don’t die of embarrassment. Get checked! That’s the message behind ‘The Real Full Monty’ special,” Anderson said in a statement.

“I am honored to lead the charge of rallying these fearless men to bare it all, in order to provoke, inspire and in this case, beg you to get screened for cancer.”