Give me my need for cigarettes.

I'll never leave your filthy bed.

I stay in the night and one night weekend, two or three years, the kids kids are not all right but that's okay because

no one here is teen beaters. No, it's not it. It's still workshopping our names. We will get there

at some point, I promise. But more importantly, in the meanwhile, this is Teen Beat with me, Danielle Fischel.

It's a podcast where I invite interesting people to sit down and chat about their upbringings,

the glorious and the awkward, all in an attempt to pay me back for the years I spent on television as a literal kid.

It's an easy concept.

I gave you my childhood.

It's time we hear yours.

And this week, I'm hanging out with a reality television superstar who's here not only to talk about his formative years, but this session will also double as a conduit between his generation

and mine, with the goal of making

me cooler by the end of this episode.

28 years old, 6'5, this Queensland-Australia native burst onto the scene in 2018 as the

standout star of New Zealand's hit reality dating show, Heartbreak Island, leaving with a $100,000 prize,

and a newly recognizable name in branding. He then sidestepped the success onto 2021's

British Dating Game Show, Too Hot to Handle, and MTV's Match Me If You Can. A prime example

of celebrity in the always changing media landscape of today,

he continued to make the unscripted rounds, from Flores Lava to Amazing Race Australia to perfect

match, eventually landing on the 32nd season of Dancing with the Stars, where he helped usher in

a new era for the show, one that has continued to gain

momentum ever since. Then, he made the once impossible transition into traditional acting,

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