Brooke Burke
Brooke Burke (born September 8, 1971) is an American television personality, fitness personality, author, actress, and businesswoman. She is known for hosting the E! Network travel show Wild On! (1999–2002), CBS's Rock Star (2005–2006), and TV Lands' She's Got the Look (2010). After winning the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, Burke served as co-hostess of the show from season ten to season seventeen (2010–2013). In 2017, Burke launched "Brooke Burke Body", a fitness app with workout videos featuring her.[3]
Brooke Burke
September 8, 1971[1]
Television personality, fitness personality, author, actress, businesswoman
1986–present
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Early life[edit]
Brooke Lisa Burke was born in Hartford, Connecticut[1] and raised in Tucson, Arizona, the younger of two siblings born to Donna and George Burke.[4] Her mother is of half Portuguese background; she was adopted[5] and then raised Jewish.[6] Her father is of Irish and French descent[4][5][7] and left the family when she was two years old.[5] She was thereafter raised by her Armenian stepfather[4] in her mother's Jewish faith.[6] She is raising her children Jewish,[8][9] although she also celebrates Christmas.[10]
She attended both Sahuaro High School and Palo Verde High School in Tucson where she was homecoming queen in 1989. She later studied broadcast journalism.[11]
Career[edit]
Television[edit]
After rising to national fame as a lingerie model for the Frederick's of Hollywood catalog in the early 1990s, Burke was tapped to serve as the host of the popular E! travel series Wild On! from 1999 to 2002. In 2005, Burke landed her first primetime network hosting gig on CBS's Rock Star: INXS (2005) and the subsequent Rock Star: Super Nova, both produced by Mark Burnett.
In 2010, Burke became the host of She's Got the Look on TV Land, a modeling competition series for women over 35. That same year, she was named co-hostess of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, where she remained for seven seasons (2010–2013).
Burke served as the co-host of the Miss America pageant in 2011,[12] 2012,[13] 2013,[14] and 2016.[15]
From 2016 to 2018, Burke hosted and co-produced the Saturday morning show Hidden Heroes, a hidden camera television show developed for teenagers in which each episode reveals the widespread goodwill in our world by secretly capturing heroes in action.[16]
Her other television credits include hosting the digital series and network show I Dare You on TV Land (2018) as well as a recurring role on Melissa & Joey (2014–2015).
Burke currently hosts Penn & Teller: Fool Us, replacing Alyson Hannigan.[17]
Dancing with the Stars performances[edit]
On November 25, 2008, Burke, with Derek Hough as her partner, won the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars beating Super Bowl champion Warren Sapp and his partner Kym Johnson. Burke shares the honor of being one of only three contestants to spend eight out of ten weeks at the top of the leaderboard. The other two contestants to achieve this feat are Kristi Yamaguchi and Nicole Scherzinger.
Personal life[edit]
Burke was married twice and engaged once more. She was first engaged to Joseph Benjamin, a gas station owner in Los Angeles. Her first marriage was in 2001 to Garth Fisher, a plastic surgeon. They divorced in 2005.[22] She raises their two daughters, Neriah and Sierra, in her Jewish faith.[2]
In 2006, Burke began dating actor and singer David Charvet whom she married on August 12, 2011;[2] Burke announced that she would take her husband's last name and be known as Brooke Burke-Charvet. Together they have a daughter (Heaven Rain, born 2007) and a son (Shaya Braven, born 2008).[23][24] After seven years of marriage, the couple announced that they were divorcing in April 2018.[25] Their divorce was finalized in March 2020.[26]
As of October 2020 it was revealed Burke had been in a relationship with Scott Rigsby since August 2019.[22]
On November 8, 2012, Burke announced she had thyroid cancer and underwent surgery to remove her thyroid. She became the face of the American Cancer Society's "Bucket List" campaign in 2014.[27]