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After competing on three seasons of , it’s fair to say that was quite a different reality TV experience for Hayden Quinn. The Channel Seven series is known for pushing celebrities to their physical limits as they battle it out on the dance floor, with former judge last year after suffering an ankle injury. Speaking with ahead of Sunday night’s premiere, Hayden describes the experience as one of the most “challenging” and “intense” things he’s ever done.

Not only was the training “mentally intensive” having to remember all the moves and perfect his coordination, but he also obtained a back injury. “Obviously with dancing, there's a lot of different body positions you need to be in,” he details. “You’re very structured in what you do and the big part of dancing is those big lifts that you see happen.



They’re quite dramatic and quite fun, but you’ve got to do them again and again and again. “I actually got a weird inflammation in my lower back that got pretty bad, but worked through it with the physio and a bit of massage and we took it easy for a couple of days and that sort of settled.” The celebrity chef reveals that training was “long and enduring” and the contestants practised eight hours a day, six days a week for seven weeks before filming even kicked off.

“It was just non-stop,” he remarks. “We'd get in there on Sundays some mornings and do a couple of hours just to sort of do some refresher and some revision work, but it was a.

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