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Welcome to The Useless Hotline hosted by Max Balegde and George Clarke. A place to send your queries and dilemmas no matter how big, small, weird, or embarrassing. We can’t guarantee good advice or that you will leave a changed person, but we can guarantee that this is a useless hotline.

Subscribe and join us every Sunday as we tackle your problems head on and on occasion will be helped by some faces you may recognise on a trial shift.

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00:00 – Kicking Things Off + My TikTok Hot Take

03:02 – Wild Tour Stories & Behind-the-Scenes Moments

05:53 – How I Ended Up Dancing on Strictly (and What Went Down)

08:55 – TV Life: Live Shows, Chaos & Unexpected Moments

12:03 – Strictly Secrets: Food, Backstage Routine & More

15:03 – The Emotional Side of Performing (Yep, I Nearly Cried)

18:05 – What You DON’T See: Production Tricks & Crowd Reactions

29:26 – Handling Curveballs in Dance Competitions

32:43 – Public Voting: The Stress, The Drama, The Reality

35:11 – Dealing With Online Hate (and Staying Sane)

38:00 – How Content Creators Actually Shape These Shows

42:40 – More Strictly BTS: The Stuff Nobody Talks About

45:29 – How Dance Styles & Performances Have Evolved

51:26 – Where Content Creation in Entertainment Is Heading

56:40 – Why Good Partnerships Make or Break a Dance

01:01:10 – Looking Back: What the Whole Experience Taught Me

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