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House of Maher

Ilona Maher Reunites with Alan Bersten

House of Maher

Wave

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy, Rugby

4.9569 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're back with our very first guest: None other than Ilona's Dancing With The Stars partner Alan Bersten! Ilona and Alan recall their first meeting and first impressions of one another, we discuss showing up for Ilona, our favorite dances, and knowing when she was freaking out internally. Ilona talks about lifting and being lifted, and Alan reveals his own struggles with body image. New episodes of House of Maher release every Tuesday! Want to watch? ⁠Check us out on YouTube @HouseofMaher⁠ For more sister chaos, follow along @HouseofMaher on all platforms. A Wave Original. Sponsored by Samsung Galaxy. Get your Galaxy S25 Ultra at Samsung.com. ⁠instagram.com/houseofmaher⁠ ⁠tiktok.com/ ⁨@HouseofMaher⁩ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Honestly, that made my time on the show so good because I was afraid of like, what if I don't like my partner?

0:04.5

Would you want to be with anyone else?

0:07.4

No.

0:10.4

Unless.

0:11.1

Come on in and welcome back to House of Mar, a wave original, presented by the new Samsung Galaxy S-25 Ultra. Here's one of your hosts, Adriana Mar. She recently got a haircut, which she is calling a Bob because she doesn't go any shorter than that. I'm calling it a Mar-Bob. A Mar-Bob, yes. You're such long hair people that this feels like a bob. Of course. Hi, I'm Adriana Mar. This is Olivia Marr, one of your co-hosts as well. And she should trademark this eye look. You can do it in your sleep. Thank you so much. Yeah, so I'm Olivia Mar, and this is your other co-host, Ilona Mar, a wonderfully talented person who still uses bunny ears to tie her shoe laces.

0:58.2

Yeah.

0:58.6

Hey.

0:58.9

And it works.

0:59.9

What about it?

1:00.4

And I am very, very excited to introduce our first ever guest, my good friend, my dance coach, dance partner, Alan Burson, a Dancing with Stars Pro, a lover of crafty and cream cheese, and a very good coach, I would say.

1:19.9

Some would say.

1:20.9

Some said.

1:21.6

I've said it.

1:22.5

I've said it.

1:22.8

I'm the first guest.

1:23.9

We finally got first, Alona.

1:25.7

Yeah.

1:27.0

Yeah.

1:45.0

Feels good. It feels good.. Feels good. Someone bring out a mirror ball. And into honor of Alan, actually, I'm wearing my Latin ballroom dance shoes. It's true. I would show more of my leg, but I did not shave. She did not shave her legs. Which funny story about that, on some of our dances, Alan would have to like run his hand up my leg and I was like, sorry about this, buddy. I did not shave her legs. Which funny story about that, on some of our dances, Alan would have to run his leg, hand up my leg and I was like, sorry about this, buddy, I did not shave again today. So you're like, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Dance is a contact sport. Dance a contact sport. Some would say. Full context sport, yeah. But I put these on in case we did need to break out and dance. Just in case. space here for you guys. Little space little space in touch grass we are back in the states olivia and i's first stop was getting chilies yeah wow

2:06.4

i saw had to do a cheese pole she loved a tripper dip her i had to really taste all those what

2:10.6

what everyone in the uk like to call chemicals you know what i mean oh oh you've got dyes and chemicals

2:15.8

well it's delicious so had to touch down and get that stuff immediately. In the airport. In the airport. We hadn't even left the airport. But then we went right from that into eating courage bagels in L.A. So two very different vibes. Delicious. But Alona had been dreaming about those bagels for weeks now. You were like, that's the first thing I want to do when I get back to L.A. I'm still upset because you went once without me. And then you went twice without me.

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