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Bergeron: Keep Brown away from me

MAD LOVE: Chris Brown walks around LA with new girlfriend, Karrueche Tran. (WENN.com)

Nail down the furniture — Chris Brown is back in the house.

The hot-tempered R&B star, who trashed a dressing room at “Good Morning America” after an interview last week, will perform two songs tonight on “Dancing With the Stars” — as scheduled.

But he may have to introduce himself to the TV audience.

Yesterday, host Tom Bergeron said he has asked the show’s producers to keep him far away from Brown. “I did tell the producers it may be to their advantage to not have me interview him,” Bergeron said in an interview on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, “because my natural tendency would be to say something.

“So, don’t put me in a position where you are asking me not to say something, because I really won’t do that.”

It was not clear if Bergeron, a free-swinging personality to begin with, was saying he refused to temper his comments about Brown on the air — or that he simply disapproved of the show’s decision to honor its invitation to Brown after the violent “GMA” tantrum in New York.

The network has been milking its unconventional relationship with the rap singer for a week — which has led to much speculation about the network’s motives.

The singer, upset after being grilled about ex-girlfriend Rihanna, reportedly smashed a chair into a plate-glass window, sending shards of glass down on Times Square.

“The very same day, ABC said they weren’t pressing charges, they invited him back to the show,” radio host Egypt Sherrod told CNN.

“What does that tell you? They want in. They don’t want their rivals to benefit from the biggest story of the week. That will translate into ratings for ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ ”

But ABC is clearly not trumpeting Brown’s return to the network. In a press release issued yesterday confirming the lineup for tonight’s show — which was still in some doubt — the network buried Brown’s appearance in the 10th paragraph, after bios of the show’s new six-member “pro dance troupe.”

In recent days, it has been suggested that “GMA” may be trying to orchestrate an on-air reconciliation between Brown and Rihanna, whom he admits assaulting in 2009.

“That is not true,” a “GMA” spokesperson tells The Post. “There are no plans to have him back on the show.”