Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
Speaker 1: TV Reload the podcast last week. Thereby, Hey guys, welcome
Speaker 1: back to TV Reload. I want to thank you for
Speaker 1: clicking and downloading on today's episode with Adam Doval, who
Speaker 1: was one of this week's booted celebrities from Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars, which happened just before the finale. I honestly
Speaker 1: think that this year has been one of the toughest
Speaker 1: competitions we've seen on the dance floor for Channel seven,
Speaker 1: with it all coming to an end with Lisa and
Speaker 1: Samantha in the finale with the best chance to win. However,
Speaker 1: Aunt Middleton could probably pip them at the post. Who knows.
Speaker 1: My guest today is Adam and is known for house
Speaker 1: rules and better homes in gardens. He is a builder
Speaker 1: by trade, but above all of his accomplishments, he's actually
Speaker 1: just a really nice guy that I have loved watching
Speaker 1: Dancing this season. I will talk about how everyone has
Speaker 1: been saying his name differently in the media, to how
Speaker 1: he really connected with his partner Jess. We will find
Speaker 1: out about his relationship with doctor Chris Brown and what
Speaker 1: about the host completely freaked in when he was standing
Speaker 1: next to him. There's actually an opportunity as well to
Speaker 1: talk about if they got to kick their costumes, if
Speaker 1: being Channel seven talent gives you a fast pass to
Speaker 1: the well close to the finale, and who he actually
Speaker 1: thinks is going to win tonight. There is so much
Speaker 1: to talk to with Adam, so sit back and relax
Speaker 1: as we unpack the wonderful world of Dancing with the Stars. Hi, Adam, how.
Speaker 2: Are you, MATEI be very good yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I'm doing well. But you know what,
Speaker 1: It's funny. I watch the episodes. I rewatched them just
Speaker 1: before I start talking to people that I have on
Speaker 1: the podcast. So I've just been watching you do the
Speaker 1: Rumber again, and I'm kind of doing the Rumber while
Speaker 1: I'm talking to.
Speaker 2: The Yeah, I'll find in my emotions in that.
Speaker 1: I thought you did so well in this competition. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know whether I was reading into this, but
Speaker 1: I felt like your energy level was almost better than
Speaker 1: other people's a lot of the time like you were
Speaker 1: and I think it was the passion that you must
Speaker 1: have had.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, mate, Thanks so much. Look, I was
Speaker 2: lucky enough, I think, to have one of the best
Speaker 2: in the business, Jess Rafa teaching me everything. You know,
Speaker 2: I knew absolutely nothing going into this, and I quickly
Speaker 2: learned that it wasn't to make dancing. Was just about
Speaker 2: you know, I thought, someone's going to teach me how
Speaker 2: to move me fate and as long as I do that,
Speaker 2: and I'll do it in the correct pattern, I'm going
Speaker 2: to be pretty good. But to be quite honest, the
Speaker 2: majority of it is from the way stup and you've
Speaker 2: got to become his character, and I mean acting something
Speaker 2: I don't do. And so that was a massive learning
Speaker 2: part for me. And you know that was after the
Speaker 2: first song. She's telling me that what smile off me
Speaker 2: fas and I'm like goo, it just comes naturally to
Speaker 2: So I'm going to struggle with that.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you get that from, because the
Speaker 1: smiling on your face is so infectious. As I said
Speaker 1: to you, I was watching it just before we started talking,
Speaker 1: and I am in a room by myself and I
Speaker 1: was smiling. There's something very infectious about your personally and
Speaker 1: obviously why you're on television.
Speaker 2: So hello, thank you? Yeah, Well what's that? I would say?
Speaker 2: You know, they say smile and the whole world will
Speaker 2: smile with you. Maybe there's some truth behind that. What
Speaker 2: a journey it was. I would have loved to get
Speaker 2: through to the Grand Final. I mean the rumber your
Speaker 2: Dan's partner, Jet, She's known for the rumber like as
Speaker 2: her favorite style of dance, and so I just wanted
Speaker 2: to nail. I really wanted to nail this one for her.
Speaker 2: I would have loved to get through.
Speaker 1: To the JF.
Speaker 2: You know you will with no regrets. What we can
Speaker 2: do is give it all you've got, and that's what
Speaker 2: I did. So I mean good luck to the other
Speaker 2: five competitors that I left. It's a tough competition.
Speaker 1: It's a very tough competition. And I did speak to
Speaker 1: Sonya about this and she was very strong with saying,
Speaker 1: you know, behind the scenes, this would probably be the
Speaker 1: best dancers and in any other season you I think
Speaker 1: would have gotten through the finale. It's just that it's unbelievable,
Speaker 1: Like who would have thought that Aunt Middleton could get it? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I mean we could back like jobs he can do.
Speaker 1: But you know I did not think he was good dance, No,
Speaker 1: well not.
Speaker 2: With the bill. I mean he so Bill. I mean
Speaker 2: I thought last I couldn't believe I had to have
Speaker 2: my shirt open the same night that anyone who has
Speaker 2: his shirt. I'm like, who's running wardrobe around here? Because
Speaker 2: you've set me up for failure.
Speaker 1: Get the rig out. I actually think that you know
Speaker 1: you've got a different rig And I know from talking
Speaker 1: to all my girlfriends that there's different types of men
Speaker 1: that they're into. And I think a woman going for
Speaker 1: Middleton is going to I mean, what is it. A
Speaker 1: woman not wanting to go fan Middleton is going to
Speaker 1: go for you and that's your own body. There you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's room for everyone, room for every.
Speaker 1: Down the street this week with your top open.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no one would otherwise.
Speaker 1: No one can just put on the sequence walk down
Speaker 1: the street like that. No one will arrest you and
Speaker 1: put you in a funny hoes. You have to help
Speaker 1: me though. I don't know if you listened to Kyle
Speaker 1: and Jackio, but Kyle kept bringing you up about the
Speaker 1: fact that you could dance well. But he said your
Speaker 1: surname I reckon eighty five different ways while talking about
Speaker 1: you this season. Not sure if you heard him talking
Speaker 1: about you, But can you correct? No, I haven't, you haven't, Okay.
Speaker 1: He was really supportive because you know Cayle Santeleanz can
Speaker 1: be very outspoken. But how how am I saying it?
Speaker 1: Your properly? Like how do you say your surnames?
Speaker 2: Because how do you tell me how you say it?
Speaker 1: Don't do that to me because I'm no.
Speaker 2: I won't take any offense because I said so.
Speaker 1: I was saying Doval, but I got very Australians that
Speaker 1: maybe I'm a total Bogan.
Speaker 2: No and so and so am I. So this is
Speaker 2: what's happened, So I'll explain to you so we can
Speaker 2: clean it out. Lanes On Brill. So I'm exactly the
Speaker 2: same as you. I am even though I am both
Speaker 2: my parents are Sicilian, I was. I grew up in
Speaker 2: a very Australian area and I and I didn't want
Speaker 2: to stand out from the crowd. So I say my
Speaker 2: surname the Bogan way, which is ogal. The actual correct
Speaker 2: way would be to Villere is what my surname.
Speaker 1: Is, which is how to commentator would introduce you. So
Speaker 1: I'm sort of I love Adam Doval, you know I
Speaker 1: love him, And then that fancy it up and you
Speaker 1: come on stage and I think, am I supposed to?
Speaker 2: When I first heard it first? Threw me off. So
Speaker 2: I noted Adam Doble, that's that's how that's how I
Speaker 2: stay and yeah, that's that's that's how I want to
Speaker 2: be called. So, yes, Noble is correct.
Speaker 1: Well, that's how I was bold.
Speaker 2: I reckon.
Speaker 1: He would have said it about five different ways, like
Speaker 1: you could tell that he thought you were great. And
Speaker 1: he was kept saying, you know, doctor Chris Brown's doing
Speaker 1: a good job on this show, but he'd almost rubbished
Speaker 1: him and say doctor Chris Brown's not even slightly funny,
Speaker 1: like and he's been funny this season. So he was
Speaker 1: arguing with Jackie about whether or not the jokes are
Speaker 1: written for doctor Chris Brown, because both of them know
Speaker 1: Chris really well, but they were shocked at how fair
Speaker 1: he was.
Speaker 2: I did think that Chris did very well. I thought
Speaker 2: he did very well, and I actually I thought the
Speaker 2: son you were him working well. I was quite unused.
Speaker 1: Yes, same, I thought he was good. What did you
Speaker 1: think about him on dream Home then, because like you'd
Speaker 1: been on a show very similar to dream Home back
Speaker 1: in the day, So I was wondering whether or not
Speaker 1: because you're in to know on that kind of work,
Speaker 1: that line of business, what you were thinking of him
Speaker 1: in that show. Do you think he's Dancing with the Stars,
Speaker 1: doctor Chris Brown or do you think dream Home Christ
Speaker 1: doctor Chris Brown? Which one's better?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I didn't get to see much of him
Speaker 2: on the Dream Homes, of course, I didn't get to
Speaker 2: catch much of that. But I'm sure, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure if he was the same as what he
Speaker 2: was on there to with the Stars, I think he
Speaker 2: would have done very well. I mean, in the end,
Speaker 2: you've just got to be you stay true to yourself,
Speaker 2: and you know you're in Dream Homes. You're given away
Speaker 2: a massive pride, so as long as you're there to
Speaker 2: support the contestants in the way you have to explained
Speaker 2: for him the competition, I think he would have done
Speaker 2: really well. But yeah, it's good. It's good like Chris Brown,
Speaker 2: I like, I like his styles were out there with
Speaker 2: the starts.
Speaker 1: This man must be a giant, like he is huge,
Speaker 1: because like everyone standing next to him looked like midget's.
Speaker 1: Everyone looked like they're you know, from the Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 1: Though I want a couple of the Munchkin Bill but
Speaker 1: especially you know and n but even you standing next
Speaker 1: to him you were shorter than him. So how tall
Speaker 1: is he?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 1: He seven foot eight foot? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got no I made it. He's probably eightful.
Speaker 2: He is huge, but that's his feet, Like he was
Speaker 2: wearing these glossy dancing shoes and I swear they'll have
Speaker 2: to be a fifteen foot He's huge. I'm just we's
Speaker 2: he even human? Like, I'm absolutely amazing such a presence,
Speaker 2: such a presence just makes you feel insignificant almost, I.
Speaker 1: Do, but even you, because you look like, you know,
Speaker 1: a bigger guy, Like it just looks strange to me
Speaker 1: that he was sort of dwarfing you. But look, the
Speaker 1: question I was thinking about asking you was throughout this season,
Speaker 1: I've been chatting to people who've been on the show
Speaker 1: and looking at the advantages and disadvantages about going on
Speaker 1: to Dancing with the Stars and competing on a game
Speaker 1: show that's on Channel seven, And I thought you might
Speaker 1: be able to help me. You're kind of like Channel
Speaker 1: seven in house talent. Did you think that you and
Speaker 1: Jimmy like James would be getting further along in the
Speaker 1: competition because you're being favored because your Channel seven talent, Like,
Speaker 1: did that cross your mind? At all.
Speaker 2: Nah, I definitely didn't. That didn't cross my mind at all.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just went into this competition and I
Speaker 2: trusted in my dam's partner, and basically I thought to myself,
Speaker 2: she said, and do it to the best of my ability.
Speaker 2: I mean, and that is all I did. And I
Speaker 2: just because she turned around me once and she said, Adam,
Speaker 2: if you don't commit to this, she said, what I'm
Speaker 2: making to do is actually going to look even worse asked.
Speaker 2: And so I'm like, all right, I'm already going to
Speaker 2: look like a little bit of a dick. I don't
Speaker 2: want to look like like a complete foot commit. And
Speaker 2: that's what I did. I just I did everything she
Speaker 2: said and tried to perfect it as much as possible.
Speaker 2: But I mean, you know, the scores last night were crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like I can some can some judges give me a nine,
Speaker 2: and then the cragged the bugger give me a fall.
Speaker 2: They look at the moment, I think, exapply that gallon.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and Craig's obviously taken, and Oxford straight to
Speaker 1: have a few shots before they bring him out there
Speaker 1: to say something, because like he thinks, he's clearly thinking
Speaker 1: about being somewhere else because like, how do you score
Speaker 1: like that because he's so far off from everybody else.
Speaker 2: But I've got to say, like, it gets pretty intense.
Speaker 2: Like a lot of a lot of the bus celebrities,
Speaker 2: I had so much pressure on themselves and they'll freaking
Speaker 2: out a lot backstage, and I just kept reminding everyone
Speaker 2: that we're not professional dancers, guys. Just let's just go
Speaker 2: out there and just do what we can do, and
Speaker 2: what will be will be. If you get good schools,
Speaker 2: you get good schools, you get bad schools, just walk
Speaker 2: away knowing that you gave it your all and that's
Speaker 2: that's all you can do. And I think the scoring
Speaker 2: is out of your control, So you know, I guess
Speaker 2: that's the bunks, the fact that if you channel seven personality,
Speaker 2: they help you get through, because that definitely can working.
Speaker 1: My I kept reading that people kept saying that they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, well, he's from home and like for Jimmy,
Speaker 1: they were like, oh, he's from home and away he's
Speaker 1: got us fast past to the end. But I don't
Speaker 1: think that competition, this competition works like that. And I
Speaker 1: think you gave away something there where you were talking
Speaker 1: about how you were chatting to the others backstage this
Speaker 1: season and did have very good camaraderie. From what everyone
Speaker 1: reported back to the media about your organ along so well,
Speaker 1: you're obviously lifting people up, which is a good way
Speaker 1: to be. But when it comes to when you're allocated,
Speaker 1: like you've got Jess and Jess is a brilliant answer.
Speaker 1: Do you all find out you're on Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Stars and then put in like a suggestion box who
Speaker 1: you can have, because I do think who you get
Speaker 1: partnered up with does determine how far you get in
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do agree with that too. I definitely agree
Speaker 2: with that. Now we don't have say over who our
Speaker 2: professional dancers are, but I think that's something that's obviously
Speaker 2: worked out internally.
Speaker 1: That personality though, or is there a spinning wheel like
Speaker 1: how do you reckon? They work that out often?
Speaker 2: I think a bit of door would have to go
Speaker 2: into it, because depending on I think it would have
Speaker 2: to be the individual's personality who they think they're going
Speaker 2: to get along with. But I'll dare say they would
Speaker 2: put a fair bit of thought into that because in
Speaker 2: eight weeks. In eight week so I had three days
Speaker 2: off and apart from that training five to eight l today.
Speaker 2: I mean, and that included then, that included obviously and
Speaker 2: shooting you the live shows as well. But yeah, it
Speaker 2: was a lot of a lot of time that you're spending.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's way too much time. I didn't even spend
Speaker 1: that much time with their friend. I'd be like, that's
Speaker 1: exactly right. You wouldn't even spend that much time in
Speaker 1: a row with your wife, do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: because then that's too much time for anybody. I'd be like,
Speaker 1: get away from it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's so true. I agree. So
Speaker 2: that's why you could have How imagine how we would
Speaker 2: that would be you had it if you didn't get
Speaker 2: along with that person spending that much So, I mean,
Speaker 2: it'd be like teth, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1: I've heard it. I've actually heard from I've got friends
Speaker 1: that have done the show before that didn't get along
Speaker 1: with their dancers, so and that that was hell on earth.
Speaker 1: So like, I do think that it's very good when
Speaker 1: you get that match up and you two had a
Speaker 1: very good synergy together. There was something that you brought
Speaker 1: out in each other. You could clearly tell from last
Speaker 1: night that she celebrated being able to dance with you,
Speaker 1: who was a pliable dancer. She could dance well, well
Speaker 1: better than she said that she'd ever really danced in
Speaker 1: the competition before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which was down I suggest to say, it's so
Speaker 2: nice of her to say, and look, I mean she
Speaker 2: looks she's a fellow Sicilian. So we had a good
Speaker 2: laugh about that her Actually her parents were from the
Speaker 2: same the region that my mum came from. Literally, it
Speaker 2: was like I was hanging out with my sister, Like
Speaker 2: she's as crazy as my sister. It was hilarious, said,
Speaker 2: I said, the similarities between you two were ridiculous. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we just had a good laugh. And yeah, it was
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. It was hard work, but it
Speaker 2: was a lot of fun. We spent our days laughing.
Speaker 2: Both of the tours that they caught on. You should
Speaker 2: tell me to pick something up, like I should say,
Speaker 2: all this time, because you're running your routines over and
Speaker 2: over and so like she would say, okay, this time,
Speaker 2: I want you to concentrate, you know, on your legs.
Speaker 2: So you're concentrating on your legs, making sure you get
Speaker 2: all your leg moves right, and she goes, what were
Speaker 2: you doing with your hand? I got no idea. I
Speaker 2: was just concentrating on my legs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my mistake.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So then you're run the same routine and she's like,
Speaker 2: I think about you. I want you to take about time.
Speaker 2: So you've won the same routine, you think about your
Speaker 2: hands and then she's what are you doing with your
Speaker 2: leg I've got no idea. I was thinking about my hands.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's also interesting to me as a viewer, was I
Speaker 1: thought that you, Shane and Ben were interesting with the
Speaker 1: way in which people were watching you on the show
Speaker 1: because people had their own attachments, I think to you,
Speaker 1: but you also had your own personality together and then
Speaker 1: you all came out of the show at the same time.
Speaker 1: Did that bond you? But all between those two boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're champion Blake, they are Champion Blake coming
Speaker 2: from Melbourne and obviously a b AFL team. Yeah, they
Speaker 2: are champions. Obviously the AFL. We got to spend a
Speaker 2: fair bit of time together and so now even now
Speaker 2: there's a few cheeky messages yet thrown around when the
Speaker 2: game's on. Obviously Crawford's got the upper hand. Now we
Speaker 2: talks making the apes one imagine. Yeah. So no, but
Speaker 2: they're good Blakes, and it was it was. It was
Speaker 2: funny because all our elimination there to us three, we
Speaker 2: all had the selta and so we were saying, imagine
Speaker 2: all three of us are in the elimination, they will
Speaker 2: hear the same song three times. It almost happened. It
Speaker 2: almost literally almost happened.
Speaker 1: Was can you just tell me who just with one answer?
Speaker 1: I know that's very hard because we're running out of time,
Speaker 1: but I really want to know who you think is
Speaker 1: going to win. We now know who's in the finale
Speaker 1: for tonight. Do you have someone you want to win
Speaker 1: out of Aunt, James, Lisa or Samanta.
Speaker 2: I would have to say, I mean, I would love
Speaker 2: to see began with because I reckon he's got to say.
Speaker 2: When I first started it and I met Bigan, and
Speaker 2: he's such a filled man, and I thought, cheese. He
Speaker 2: doesn't really have a figure, a dancing figure. He's so masculine.
Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine him, you know, would struggle with the
Speaker 2: you know, these dance books, but he blew me away.
Speaker 2: And he's just he's so dedicated to anything he sets
Speaker 2: his mind to. So I would love to see Aunt
Speaker 2: go all the way. I told him that his last dance.
Speaker 2: I said, mate, but I saw you rolling along that.
Speaker 2: It was like a big, bolder mate down the floor.
Speaker 2: I said, you got three tents to that. That is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: So I would love to see you. Yeah, take it out.
Speaker 1: Was like, he's like, comment he reminds me of Mario
Speaker 1: for Maria Cup Mario brothers, Like just the way bounces
Speaker 1: across the stage just before you go. The last thing
Speaker 1: I ask everyone who joins the podcast is a secret
Speaker 1: from behind the scenes. Maybe you can help me with this.
Speaker 1: Do you get to keep Do you get to keep
Speaker 1: the outfits? Have you kept all of those sequence?
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, we do not get to keep you out.
Speaker 1: Don't have to go and by the me if I.
Speaker 2: Did, If I did, I would have a lot of
Speaker 2: shirts that you never don't up exactly.
Speaker 1: You'd be asking sow some buttons onto those. Yeah, get
Speaker 1: get putting buttons on there. Nobody wants to see that,
Speaker 1: but maybe they do.
Speaker 2: I could I could have. I said, I couldn't believe
Speaker 2: that they had to put me in an unbuttoned shirt
Speaker 2: the same night that they put in middle Never just like,
Speaker 2: come on, that's not fair, is it? No? I thought
Speaker 2: I I.
Speaker 1: Was been weird before, but I was just saying, you know,
Speaker 1: people are into different things. I think you're a much
Speaker 1: better looking bloke than at Middleton. I'm just going to
Speaker 1: save it to you right there. That's a good way
Speaker 1: to finish the podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm your hype girl. Man.
Speaker 1: Have a good time. Enjoy chatting to the media about
Speaker 1: this one. I loved watching Honestly, while I was talking
Speaker 1: about it with Johnno from seven right at the start
Speaker 1: about who our favorites were, and I kept saying your
Speaker 1: name because you were so good. So thank you for
Speaker 1: doing the show and thank you for chatting with Thing Champion.
Speaker 2: Thanks words.
Speaker 1: You have a good day, amazing, look after yourself.
Speaker 2: Bye bye.
Speaker 1: You are the last party in the conference.