Dancing With The Stars' Adam Dovile spills on secret 'feud' with Chris Brown

Dancing With The Stars’ Adam Dovile has addressed rumours of a long-standing ‘feud’ with the show’s host Chris Brown. Before appearing on this year’s season of the reality competition, the duo went head to head on rival lifestyle programs for eight years with Adam on Channel Seven’s Better Homes and Gardens and Chris on Channel 10’s now-defunct series The Living Room.

Chris made mention of their rivalry during Sunday night’s premiere of Dancing With The Stars, telling Adam that they needed to “address the elephant in the room”.

“We were TV rivals for many, many years in the cutthroat vicious world of Friday night lifestyle television,” he remarked. “It’s hard to even look you in the eye, the fury is so deep. But I can’t stay angry at you, look at that smile!”

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Adam has now spoken out about the pair’s alleged feud, telling Yahoo Lifestyle he “definitely wasn’t” expecting Chris to bring up the past.

“I've always had nothing but love for him and the other guys on The Living Room as well. Yes, obviously it was a battle of the lifestyle programs, but in the end, we’re all human,” he shares.

“They’re good people and I'd like to think that we're good people as well, so I’d hope that that’s reciprocated. I asked him that, I said, ‘Surely you have nothing but love for me?’. He just laughed, so I don’t know if that’s true or not!”

Adam compares House Rules to Dream Home

In addition to working on similar lifestyle programs and appearing on the same season of Dancing With The Stars, Adam and Chris have also starred on similar renovation reality shows. Adam won the second season of House Rules with his wife Lisa Lamond in 2014, while Chris hosted this year’s season of Dream Home - which has been heavily compared to its Channel Seven predecessor.

Although Adam admits he didn’t watch Dream Home, he says he is aware that the show's format is very similar to House Rules with state-based teams of two renovating each other’s homes.

“I did hear that it has a similar format to House Rules and that's maybe why I didn’t tune in,” he laughs. “As much as I appreciate and still feel so blessed to have won that show, that was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life and I don't want to re-live it.

“I’d literally be sitting in the corner shaking if I re-lived what we went through. It was bloody hard, but I still say that it had to be hard because it was a massive prize and it really did change our lives.”

Adam reveals why he initially turned down DWTS

Ahead of his Dancing With The Stars debut on Sunday night, Adam describes the experience as “so much harder” than he imagined. He also reveals that he initially turned down the offer when he was first asked because he knew how hard the show was for his Better Homes and Gardens co-star Charlie Albone.

“I knew Charlie had done it the year before and obviously I’d spoken to him about his experience and it sounded brutal,” he remarks.

“So when they asked me I was like, I can't go through that. I was like, ‘No no, I'm all good’. But my wife and kids had other ideas and they were pretty excited by it so I thought, you know what? I’m a sucker for punishment, why not give it a go? So I went down that path and it was so hard.”

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Adam adds that the biggest surprise was having to act and become a character on stage in addition to learning the routine with his partner.

“I just thought you’re gonna go in there, someone's gonna teach you how to move your feet, and as long as you do that then you're gonna be okay. But it's actually not about that,” he details.

“You've got your movements you have to remember, yes, but you've got to actually make it believable. It’s a story between two people, you and your partner, and you're trying to make that come across to the audience. That was a massive surprise for me.”

Dancing With The Stars continues Sunday 7pm on Channel 7 and 7Plus

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