Val Chmerkovskiy Reveals the Greatest Adjustment on Acquired to Get Out (Unique)

• Val Chmerkovskiy tells PEOPLE about taking part within the debut season of Hulu’s new competitors present Acquired to Get Out
• Acquired to Get Out follows 20 tv personalities dwelling beneath one roof for 10 days, preventing for an opportunity to win $1 million as they work to get out of the home
• After 20 seasons as a professional on Dancing with the Stars, he explains that this expertise was a distinct kind of actuality tv than he is used to

Val Chmerkovskiy remains to be studying the ropes of actuality tv.

After 20 seasons as a professional on Dancing with the Stars, Chmerkovskiy, 39, branched out into a distinct kind of competitors present on Hulu’s new sequence Acquired to Get Out. In a current interview with PEOPLE, the dancer reveals what it was wish to be absolutely immersed within the recreation.

“Even once we went to sleep, we had a mic on us, and we had cameras within the room,” he shares, evaluating the expertise to his DWTS gig. “On Dancing with the Stars, we’re mic’ed up, however once more, we come into work, we do our factor, and we go away work — there isn’t a coming in or out [on Got to Get Out].”

“The sport was 24/7, which places a lot strain on everyone there,” he provides. “Individuals lie to one another. You can be speaking to someone and actually going deep into the dialog, and you discover out that that particular person is simply making an attempt to distract you.”

A self-proclaimed “yes-man,” Chmerkovskiy says he went into it with an open thoughts regardless of the present being out of his consolation zone.

“I knew that it wasn’t going to be perpetually, so I used to be simply form of like, ‘YOLO. Let me actually get pleasure from all of it, even this actually uncomfortable state of affairs,’” he recollects, confessing that there was one behavior he made positive to alter: ”I do not sleep in PJs, in order that took adjusting.”

Acquired to Get Out follows 20 tv personalities dwelling beneath one roof for 10 days as they work to get out of the home and doubtlessly win $1 million. Whereas Chmerkovskiy isn’t a stranger to the highlight, he admits, “I rapidly realized that I’m not a actuality star.”

“I’m an individual who is de facto good at their craft,” he explains. “I am a grasp of my craft, and I like what I do, and Dancing with the Stars simply is a format that captures my course of and broadcasts it to the world.”

“I am not on the dinner desk turning it on,” he laughs. “I imply, the primary dinner we had, the Housewives are on a distinct stage. They’re simply completely different, and I could not inform the place actuality stopped and began.”

One other side of the present that he needed to adapt to was being away from his spouse, Jenna Johnson, and their 2-year-old son, Rome. “That was in all probability the toughest half,” Chmerkovskiy says. “We do not have our telephones on us, so it was actually just about isolation for 10 days.”

“It flew by, however on the similar time, it felt like a lifetime,” he continues.

Sooner or later, Chmerkovskiy says he could be open to doing a actuality present about his life with Johnson (who can be a professional on DWTS), though he jokes he may be “too moody.”

“That was the entire thing in the home as properly,” he notes. “I like folks, I like being round folks, however I like being on my own.”

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Acquired To Get Out is out there to stream on Hulu.