ED of the CLASS

HAVE YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT ED KAVALEE HAS TO SAY?

- Penelope Clifton

If there’s one thing we need right now, it’s a good laugh. And that’s what Ed Kavalee serves weekly on hit TV quiz show, Have You Been Paying Attention (Mon., 8.30pm on Network Ten). The 40-year-old, and his comedy cohorts Sam Pang and host Tom Gleisner regularly trade barbs, but it’s all in good fun. Or is it? “We’re all in different rooms and that’s not because of isolation, that’s because we hate each other,” Kavalee jokes. Here, the comedian, who’s married to trainer Tiffiny Hall (the pair have a 2-year-old son, Arnold), talks dancing, jocks, and makeup …

You did a great job on Dancing with the Stars recently – fourth place behind the winner, Celia Pacquola. How was that?

I know what you’re going to ask – is it rigged? Yes, it is. It’s deeply rigged [laughs]. Celia is a great friend of mine; I’m happy for her.

She was really good!

Well, she was scored well. There’s a difference. I think if you were to look at it objectively, I was the best dancer and Travis Cloke was the worst. They weren’t my words, they were Todd McKenney’s – he was texting me a lot during the show.

What were the other contestants like?