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She said the Covid pandemic, which hit during her final year at university, changed the auditioning process, making it "cut-throat" due to the sheer volume of people submitting tapes.

Under China's notoriously cut-throat education system, academic excellence is lauded.

Rhodes said his advice to surround himself with people who had his best interests at heart was "the main thing for staying in the pop industry, because it's really cut-throat".

Some would be daunted by ditching their successful career in athletics to pursue a notoriously cut-throat and gruelling new discipline, going from short-distance sprinter to wide receiver.

Mahomed says another reason why single people might be more cut-throat could be due to the lingering effects of the pandemic.