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Derek Hough's First DWTS Injury: Hit in Face by Nicole Scherzinger

People - Found Mar. 16, 2010
... his former partner, Brooke Burke, with whom he won Season Seven and who?s returned to co-host the show with Tom Bergeron. Hough teases Burke...

Posted on March 16, 2010, 4:40 am

Brooke Burke?s Sunday afternoon with the kids

In Case You Didn't Know - Found Mar. 15, 2010
Brooke Burke spent the day with her children at the Cross Creek shopping center on March 14, 2010. The model TV personality took a break from

Posted on March 15, 2010, 3:00 am

Week in Review: Goodbye to Teen Idol Corey Haim

E! Online - Found Mar. 13, 2010
TV LAND: Get your Lost redux!...And your Spoiler Chat!...Brooke Burke is Tom Bergeron's new cohost on Dancing With the Stars...Facebook wins...

Posted on March 13, 2010, 9:40 am

Kate Gosselin Is Determined to Win Dancing with the Stars

People - Found Mar. 11, 2010
You just have to keep on trying.? The new season of DWTS, with Brooke Burke replacing Samantha Harris as co-host, begins March 22. Gosselin...
Kate Gosselin?s Hair Switch-Up: Short Today, But Long Tomorrow? - People
Kate Gosselin 'doing what provides for my family' - USA Today
Kate Gosselin Has New Hair Again - EOnline.com
Kate Gosselin Is Determined to Win Dancing with the Stars - People
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Posted on March 11, 2010, 7:40 am

Newly Named Dancing with the Stars Co-Host Brooke Burke Partners ...

Earthtimes.org - Found Mar. 11, 2010
The new co-host of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, model/actress and "momtrepreneur" Brooke Burke was named brand spokesperson today by underWAY...
Newly Named Dancing with the Stars Co-Host Brooke Burke Partners ... - Interest!ALERT
Newly Named Dancing with the Stars Co-Host Brooke Burke Partners ... - Memphis Business Journal
Newly Named Dancing with the Stars Co-Host Brooke Burke Partners ... - Business Review Albany
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Posted on March 11, 2010, 6:03 am

'Dancing With the Stars' posts new rehearsal photos, Brooke Burke ...

Examiner.com - Found Mar. 10, 2010
In addition, the show?s new host, Brooke Burke now has her own page on the DWTS website. Included...

Posted on March 10, 2010, 9:56 am

Brooke Burke joins Tom Bergeron on `Dancing'

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Found Mar. 9, 2010
NEW YORK - Former 'Dancing With the Stars' winner Brooke Burke will be Tom Bergeron's new partner when the series starts again later month.
Dancing with the Stars: Brooke Burke Replaces Samantha Harris - In Entertainment
Brooke Burke to co-host 'Dancing' - Chicago Sun-Times
Brooke Burke joins Tom Bergeron on 'Dancing' - Denver Post
Dancing with the Stars: Brooke Burke reflects on new job as show ... - Examiner.com
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Posted on March 9, 2010, 7:09 am

Brooke Burke to be New "Dancing" Co-Host

CBS News - Found Mar. 8, 2010
Former "Dancing With the Stars" winner Brooke Burke will be Tom Bergeron's new partner when the series starts again later this month.
Brooke Burke Is the New Co-Host of DWTS - People
Brooke Burke to co-host 'Dancing' - Hollywood Reporter
Brooke Burke joins Tom Bergeron on 'Dancing' - USA Today
Brooke Burke to replace Harris on ?Dancing? - MSNBC
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Posted on March 8, 2010, 2:20 am

Brooke Burke likely sidecar to host Tom Bergeron on DWTS

Monsters and Critics - Found Mar. 7, 2010
... host candidate Brooke Burke, 38, is it, says Star Magazine, already reporting the mother of four has the job. Latin and ballroom savant Burke...
Brooke Burke new host on Dancing with the Stars (video) - Examiner.com
Brooke Burke new host of Dancing With The Stars - Monsters and Critics
Dancing with the Stars 2010's New Co-Host is Brooke Burke... Or is ... - Associated Content
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Posted on March 7, 2010, 3:21 am

New Season, New Host! DWTS Taps Brooke Burke

PerezHilton.com - Found Mar. 6, 2010
... that Dancing With The Stars season 7 winner Brooke Burke will be co-hosting the upcoming season with Tom Bergeron ! Burke, who will be...

Posted on March 6, 2010, 6:09 am

Brooke Burke Biography

Brooke Burke
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Brooke Burke

Brooke Burke photographed by Jerry Avenaim for the cover of Razor magazine
Born Brooke Lisa Burke
September 8, 1971 (1971-09-08) (age 38)
Hartford, Connecticut
Spouse(s) Dr. Garth Fisher (2001–2005)
Domestic partner(s) David Charvet (2006–present)
Official website

Brooke Lisa Burke (born September 8, 1971) is an American television personality, model, and occasional dancer, known for hosting Wild On! (1999–2002), Rock Star (2005–2006), for winning the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars and for co-hosting Dancing With the Stars starting in 2010 (Season 10).1

Contents

Early life

Burke is the oldest of nine children born to Donna and George Burke. Her mother is Jewish and she identifies herself as Jewish;23 She is also of Irish, French, and Portuguese ancestry.4

She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Tucson, Arizona. She attended both Sahuaro High School and Palo Verde High School in Tucson, and later studied broadcast journalism at the University of Lincoln, UK.

Career

Burke worked as a model for Venus Swimwear and Frederick's of Hollywood. From 1999 to 2002, Burke became known while hosting Wild On!, a travel series on the E! Entertainment Television channel, replacing previous host Jules Asner. As part of the series, she traveled the world extensively, profiling many popular travel destinations. Burke first appeared nude during her early modeling career for the website BlueNudes,5 and most notably after gaining fame in the May 2001 and November 2004 issues of Playboy. She also appeared in men's magazines such as Maxim, Stuff, and FHM.6 In 2007, she was listed as one of Blender's hottest women of film and TV.

Burke has fronted infomercials promoting a Swiss ball video home fitness workout named Gunnar Peterson's Core Secrets, and appears in the first video of the series titled 20 Minute Full Body Workout. The infomercials have screened in New Zealand and Australia.

In 2005 and 2006, Burke hosted the CBS summer reality show Rock Star, an American Idol-like series in which aspiring singers competed to become either the frontman or frontwoman for a rock band.

She was the voice and face of "Rachel Teller" in Electronic Arts' video game Need for Speed: Underground 2, and asks the "People and Places" questions in the video game Trivial Pursuit Unhinged. Burke starred as a playable character in the Burger King advergaming title PocketBike Racer and in Big Bumpin'.

In 2007, Burke started a company called Baboosh Baby, which offers wraps for pregnant women. The company's website features a blog from Burke about her children.7

In 2009, Burke hosted NBC's pre-show for the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards with Tiki Barber and Nancy O'Dell.8

Burke, along with Derek Hough as her partner, won Season 7 of Dancing with the Stars.910 As of March 2010, Brooke is replacing Samantha Harris as co-host of the program.11 Burke also starred in the TV show host edition of The Weakest Link.

Personal life

In 2001, Burke married Garth Fisher, a plastic surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. They have two daughters together: Neriah Shae (named after one of her best friends, Playmate Neriah Davis) and Sierra Sky. In 2005, Fisher and Burke filed for divorce, and their divorce was finalized in 2006.

On August 21, 2006, she announced that she was engaged to actor/singer David Charvet. They have two children together: a daughter named Heaven Rain (born January 8, 2007) and a son named Shaya Braven (born March 5, 2008).

Dancing With the Stars

Burke appeared with Derek Hough on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars. She first danced a Cha-Cha-Cha and a Quickstep and a which received a 23 and a 26/30 from the judges. She came in first place that week. She danced a Paso Doble the following week and received a 24 tying with Warren Sapp for first place that week. The following week she danced a Viennese Waltz and received a 28, receiving the first 10 from Len Goodman of the season. Since Misty May-Treanor withdrew that week, she was automatically safe. The week after, Burke and Hough danced a Samba tying with future third place man Lance Bass for him and Lacey Schwimmer's Tango. The next week introduced four new danced in which she danced the first ever Jitterbug receiving the highest score of the season to date which was a 29. That following week Michael Flatley filled in for Len Goodman dancing a Rumba to "No Air" and a group Hip-Hip routine. She received 8's from Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli but Flatley gave her a 10. For the first time that season, she had been awarded third place from the judges giving first place to Lance Bass who the week before had tied in last place. Burke and Hough danced a Foxtrot the following week receiving the first 30 from the judges plus a group Paso Doble with Maurice Greene and Warren Sapp. The group received a 29 which was added to Burke's score giving her a 59/60 plus the encore for that week. The following week, she danced a Tango and Mambo which she would have to do a 15-second solo. She received a 28 for her first dance and a 27 for the second dance. The following week, she danced a Jive and received a 21, her lowest score and for the first time came in last place for her first dance. Her second dance was a Salsa which received a 28 and tied with Warren Sapp for second place. The following week, she danced a group Samba and received a 28 for her solo. Her second dance was Freestyle which received a 30 from all judges. Her final dance was a repeat of her Viennese Waltz which received a 30. She later won the season and the mirror ball trophy beating Warren Sapp and Kym Johnson.

Starting in Season 10 Brooke Burke will host Dancing with the Stars along side Tom Bergeron.12

Week Dance Song/Artist Carrie Ann's
Score
Len/Michael's
Score
Bruno's
Score
Result
1 Cha-Cha-Cha
Quickstep
"Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)" - The Chi-Lites
"Lover, Come Back to Me" - Barbra Streisand
7
9
8
8
8
9
Safe
2 Paso Doble "Palladio, first movement" - Karl Jenkins 8 8 8 Safe
3 Viennese Waltz "Daughters" - John Mayer 9 10 9 Safe
4 Samba "Hip Hip Chin Chin" - Club des Belugas 9 8 9 Safe
5 Jitterbug "Don't Be Cruel" - Elvis Presley 10 9 10 Safe
6 Rumba "No Air" - Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown 8 10 8 Safe
7 Foxtrot
Team Paso Doble
"Lullaby of Birdland" - Sarah Vaughan
"Rocks" - Primal Scream
10
10
10
9
10
10
Safe
8 Tango
Mambo
"Tango Diabolo" - Christa Behnke
"Cuban Mambo" - Xavier Cugat
10
9
8
9
10
9
Safe
9 Jive
Salsa
"The House is Rockin'" - Stevie Ray Vaughan
"Barbarabatiri" - Tito Puente
7
9
7
10
7
9
Safe
10 Group Samba
Freestyle
Viennese Waltz
"Blame it on the Boogie" - The Jacksons
"You're the One That I Want" - John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
"Daughters" - John Mayer
9
10
10
9
10
10
10
10
10
WINNER

Notes

  1. ^ Dancing with the Stars': Brooke Burke is the new Samantha Harris
  2. ^ Bloom, Nate (December 16, 2005). "Celebrity Jews". j.. http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/27905/format/html/displaystory.html. Retrieved 2006-12-13. 
  3. ^ Bloom, Nate (June 16, 2006). "Celebrity Jews". j.. http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/29559/edition_id/557/format/html/displaystory.html. Retrieved 2006-12-13. 
  4. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1036361/bio
  5. ^ "Brooke Burke at Blue Nudes". http://www.bluenudes.com/index-brooke-n-shaul-brookeburke.html. 
  6. ^ "Brooke Burke FHM Modeling Picture 2006". http://www.neathage.info/2008/09/brooke-burke-dancing-with-the-neathage-star/. 
  7. ^ Errico, Mike (February 2007). "Hottest Women of … Film and TV!". Blender.com. http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2464&src=blender_ed. 
  8. ^ Stickney, R. L. (January 12, 2009). "Goin' to the Globes". NBC Los Angeles. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/around_town/the_scene/Goin-to-the-Globes.html. Retrieved February 4, 2009. 
  9. ^ Rogers, Sarah (November 25, 2008). "'Dancing With the Stars': Brooke Burke voted Season 7 champion". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/11/dancing-with--9.html. Retrieved November 25, 2008. 
  10. ^ "Brooke Burke Wins Dancing With The Stars - Season 7". Kicked Off TV. November 25, 2008. http://kickedofftv.com/?p=146. 
  11. ^ "'DWTS' Co-Host - Former Champ Brooke Burke Thrilled with New Job". National Ledger. Mar 9, 2010. http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272630752.shtml. Retrieved Mar 10, 2010. 
  12. ^ Brooke Burke Is the New Co-Host of Dancing with the Stars

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Kristi Yamaguchi & Mark Ballas
Dancing with the Stars (US) winner
Season 7 (Fall 2008 with Derek Hough)
Succeeded by
Shawn Johnson & Mark Ballas