Sep 24, 2026 · 44 min · 19 segments
Strictly Come Dancing winner Ore Oduba joins Amy Hart for one of his most open and honest conversations yet! From addiction and vulnerability to masculinity, fatherhood, and breaking generational…
Now, moving on to mental health, recently you revealed you spent 30 years addicted to porn.
You know, and thank you for asking the question, what got me to that point? I think the mental health struggles that I've had and the pornography were definitely interlinked, but actually me speaking about addiction at a point when I had kind of got myself through it after a year and now two plus years of sobriety.
was because it was becoming really obvious to me how much pornography had become completely prevalent in society.
And the drip down that it had created and normalised in a completely hyper-sexualised culture, especially online ecosystem.
What impact does the world of pornography have on what sex looks like in our world today? And if we are happy with it, then hands off.
Are we happy with it? I think if you asked everybody who's connected to a phone, If they're happy about what impact pornography has created on real life relationships, what it's doing and what young people are seeing and sharing and understanding their first impressions of what sexual relationships look like, how it shapes social media, what kind of engagement that creates, then yeah, that kind of aspiration of I can earn lots of money really quickly by exploiting my body.
Everybody has the right to work, but what impact does that have on a day-to-day basis? So many communities, schools, teachers, parents, people in places of change, government, and there is this real shared collective that...
whilst we haven't historically liked to talk about it, that's allowed that industry to kind of really dictate and shape a lot of what we're seeing today.
We haven't really even had the framework of like, what does healthy sex and relationships look like? Can we impart that on our children? Can we help them understand, like in a world that is flooded with explicit imagery, can we kind of intervene and tell them what it really looks like? Because in a child's mind, that is the closest thing to sex that they're gonna understand.
And if it's available to them, they can get it on their phones, if they can get it, share it on the back of a bus with a friend, then they're gonna look at it.
You can tell them it's not, but they'll still think, well, if you haven't told me what is, I'm still gonna think that is the most realistic version of sex.
And if it is repeated over time, it becomes really, really difficult to undo that.
It just became really clear to me that I have a platform, necessarily the kind of traditional route for a Strictly Champion to go but I was like if this is if 30 years of being addicted to this has got me to a place where I'm now able to talk about it and I have a platform and a profile that means that people are going to listen this might be what it had all been for.
Do you think it might be sort of the last taboo when it comes to addiction? Because I feel like just in conversations that I've had with people I know, if someone says they're addicted to alcohol or drugs, there's a lot of empathy there.
Now, moving on to mental health, recently you revealed you spent 30 years addicted to porn.
You know, and thank you for asking the question, what got me to that point? I think the mental health struggles that I've had and the pornography were definitely interlinked, but actually me speaking about addiction at a point when I had kind of got myself through it after a year and now two plus years of sobriety.
was because it was becoming really obvious to me how much pornography had become completely prevalent in society.
And the drip down that it had created and normalised in a completely hyper-sexualised culture, especially online ecosystem.
What impact does the world of pornography have on what sex looks like in our world today? And if we are happy with it, then hands off.
Are we happy with it? I think if you asked everybody who's connected to a phone, If they're happy about what impact pornography has created on real life relationships, what it's doing and what young people are seeing and sharing and understanding their first impressions of what sexual relationships look like, how it shapes social media, what kind of engagement that creates, then yeah, that kind of aspiration of I can earn lots of money really quickly by exploiting my body.
Everybody has the right to work, but what impact does that have on a day-to-day basis? So many communities, schools, teachers, parents, people in places of change, government, and there is this real shared collective that...
whilst we haven't historically liked to talk about it, that's allowed that industry to kind of really dictate and shape a lot of what we're seeing today.
We haven't really even had the framework of like, what does healthy sex and relationships look like? Can we impart that on our children? Can we help them understand, like in a world that is flooded with explicit imagery, can we kind of intervene and tell them what it really looks like? Because in a child's mind, that is the closest thing to sex that they're gonna understand.
And if it's available to them, they can get it on their phones, if they can get it, share it on the back of a bus with a friend, then they're gonna look at it.
You can tell them it's not, but they'll still think, well, if you haven't told me what is, I'm still gonna think that is the most realistic version of sex.
And if it is repeated over time, it becomes really, really difficult to undo that.
It just became really clear to me that I have a platform, necessarily the kind of traditional route for a Strictly Champion to go but I was like if this is if 30 years of being addicted to this has got me to a place where I'm now able to talk about it and I have a platform and a profile that means that people are going to listen this might be what it had all been for.
Do you think it might be sort of the last taboo when it comes to addiction? Because I feel like just in conversations that I've had with people I know, if someone says they're addicted to alcohol or drugs, there's a lot of empathy there.
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