George Clarke REVEALS His Dance For Strictly Semi Final!
The Useless Hotline
Max Balegde & George Clarke
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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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.
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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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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's your boy. Just dropping f***ing bars on the beat. |
| 0:06.2 | Holler at me. |
| 0:08.1 | Hello, I'm Max Spellig Day. |
| 0:10.1 | And I'm George of the Clark variety. |
| 0:13.9 | This is the useless hotline because TikTok sucked ass. |
| 0:18.0 | So we didn't, we've quit. |
| 0:19.6 | We've quit oh he doesn't win creator of the year and suddenly he's |
| 0:29.4 | raging of a ticot that's crazy yeah they just gave us the like the second trophy i would never i would |
| 0:36.6 | never treat you like that ticot someone who actually loves and supports the platform I would never I would never treat you like that |
| 0:37.6 | TikTok someone who actually |
| 0:39.2 | loves and supports the platform I would never |
| 0:41.3 | speak about you that way just so bro they ain't gonna give you |
| 0:43.3 | an award |
| 0:43.7 | but TikTok wasn't making |
| 0:47.3 | out of us this is the useless hotline |
| 0:49.5 | woo |
| 0:50.0 | we fucking nailed that shit we did |
| 0:53.7 | we did we did we should get that tattoo. We did. We did. |
| 0:55.0 | Hell yeah. Oh my God, let's do it. Do you remember on the last tour when we were going to get a tattoo and then you didn't? And you ruined it for everyone. No, yeah, well, crazy. You ruined it for everyone. Yeah, sick. You ruined it. Boring. Still living on last tour. Get a grip, mate. living on last tour, did you? Yeah, get a grip. |
| 1:11.7 | I just imagine myself |
| 1:13.4 | at Leeds. Leads last tour. Get a grip, mate. Still living on last tour, did you say? Yeah, get a grip. |
| 1:11.8 | I just imagine myself at Leeds, Leeds, um. You imagine yourself at Leeds? In Leeds. |
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