Episode Details

From dog whisperer to ballroom dancer… Graeme Hall is entering the Celebrity Trenches.

The UK’s most famous dog trainer joins Jamie East ahead of his Strictly Come Dancing debut to reveal what it’s actually like behind the sequins. From not knowing who his dance partner is to the brutal reality of rehearsals and his rather chaotic history with Strictly Northampton.

But there’s much more to Graeme than teaching dogs to sit.

He tells Jamie how he went from spending 21 years working at Weetabix to accidentally becoming a professional dog trainer, why he reckons the humans are usually the real problem and the surprisingly emotional reason Britain is so obsessed with dogs!

Graeme opens up about the life-changing health issue that put his dancing dreams on hold and how an old dance bag in his loft ended up coming back into his life just in time for Strictly.

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