The drama of Dance Moms: Part two

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🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Helloooo, friends! Welcome to the second and final part of our series on the drama of Dance Moms. It was the reality TV show that captured the world’s attention: a group of very young girls, their overbearing mothers, and a dance coach so intense, some called her methods abusive. This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to CeraVe for making this episode possible. You can shop CeraVe’s entire Blemish Control range now at Chemist Warehouse nationwide. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast. Want to support our show? We are sending air kisses, air tea, and air hugs (too far?) to anyone who clicks ‘subscribe’ on Apple (bonus hugs for anyone who leaves a five-star review, too) or ‘follow’ on Spotify. Still not enough? Well! Our hearts! See below for everything else. Subscribe to the weekly ‘ASK SHAMELESS’ newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gFbYLT Join our book club: https://www.instagram.com/theshamelessbookclub/ Check out our website: https://shamelessmediaco.com/ Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours.

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0:00.0	You're about the new moves, call me a renegade, the one in the lion's cage,
0:07.0	sipping on lemonadeo.
0:09.0	I'm a dream, got your match, stick we had to get back on the sea, yeah, you can call me It was the reality TV show that captured the attention of the world. A group of very young girls, their overbearing mothers, and a dance coach so intense, some called
0:25.7	her methods abusive.
0:27.7	Welcome to Scandal from Shameless Podcast, the stories of the biggest celebrity controversies
0:32.1	revisited.
0:33.0	Now you know I'm back.
0:38.0	Hello, hello.
0:40.0	Hi, we're back for part two.
0:42.0	We are back for part two on the Abbey Lee Dance Company and the Dance
0:48.0	Mums franchise. Zara what did we cover in episode one? Well we covered a bit there's still so much to go. So I
0:54.1	think what was most interesting for us is looking at how quickly Abby Lee
0:58.7	Miller exploded like we didn't know a lot about Abby Lee Miller pre-dance mums. It definitely seemed like she ran a moderately
1:05.8	successful local dance studio. She actually had been doing that since she was 14 years old.
1:10.8	So weird. Yeah, which was a long time in her career.
1:14.0	She never kind of fancied herself as the performer but definitely the choreographer.
1:19.0	Before Dance Mums as well, we know that Abby Lee Miller actually filed for bankruptcy that was at the end of 2010.
1:25.5	It was just months before Dance Moms came to fruition.
1:29.2	Looking into it we kind of came to the conclusion that it was just economically a pretty horrendous time for the world, particularly for the US, that it wouldn't be a surprise at all for that bankruptcy to be linked to what was going on in 2009, 2010.
1:45.6	Post-GFC for sure.
1:47.4	Around this time that she filed for bankruptcy, she actually had a conversation
1:51.7	with her longtime friend and professional dancer John Corella that led to the idea
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