Max Balegde
English social media influencer (born 1999)
Max Trobe, known professionally as Max Balegde, is an English social media personality. He has presented the BBC series Date Me At My Worst and the reunion episode of Stranded on Honeymoon Island and appeared on the eleventh series of the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, the podcast Saving Grace, and the British version of The Celebrity Apprentice. He also organised a fundraising event for Not a Phase in November 2023 and won the Online Influencer award at the British LGBT Awards in June 2025.
Life and career
Max Trobe was born in Darwen and studied at Holy Trinity Primary School, St Wilfrid's Church of England Academy, and Newcastle University. His first job was in a fish-and-chip shop. He was present at the Manchester Arena bombing, following which he came out as gay, and had intended on working in digital marketing. He opened a TikTok account in January 2020, taking a username in reference to a viral clip of Jesy Nelson attempting a Jamaican accent. By October 2021, he had gone viral repeatedly on the platform including for a Cameo video in which he encouraged a customer to lose weight, for a video where he beat a man to a train, and for multiple videos depicting shopping trips. He appeared on the inaugural episode of GK Barry's Saving Grace podcast in April 2022.
Balegde uploaded and then deleted footage of himself mocking a proposal that had taken place on a London Underground train in July 2022 and began hosting The Useless Hotline podcast with George Clarke in November 2022.
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