Sensational cover featuring high-class stripper's bottom (5)
I believe the answer is:
lurid
'sensational' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)
'cover featuring high-class stripper's bottom' is the wordplay.
'cover' becomes 'lid' (lid is a kind of cover).
'featuring' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'high class' becomes 'U' (as in U and non-U speech).
'bottom' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'stripper' is 'r'.
'u'+'r'='ur'
'lid' going around 'ur' is 'LURID'.
(Other definitions for lurid that I've seen before include "Sensational; colourful" , "In shocking detail" , "Bright and garish" , "Ghastly bright" , "Glaringly bright" .)