Burke, Broadway-bound? PEOPLE sure thinks so! Former Dancing With The Stars champion Cheryl Burke is in discussion to make her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning musical Chicago this winter. “It’s always been a dream of Cheryl’s to perform on Broadway,” a theater tipster told PEOPLE on Wednesday. Cheryl, who is up for the lead role of Roxie Hart in the long-running production, would appear in a limited engagement while DWTS is in the off-season. “She’s excited to show off her other talents besides being a good dancer. She’s been vocally trained and she has a great voice.”
Cheryl was elminated from the ninth season of Dancing With The Stars last month after her celebrity partner, Texas republican Tom DeLay, bowed out of the competition with a season-ending injury.
The two-time Dancing With The Stars champ has teamed up with Fit Couture to create her own collection of workout gear.
“Comfort is so important to me when I am active,” says the professional dancing champ. “I like to wear pieces that move with my body and are flattering to my body type. I’ve always wanted to start my own clothing line and I’ve been a fan of Fit Couture’s items for a while now so when they approached me about doing a line with them it just made sense.”
The Cheryl Burke by Fit Couture line will feature nine pieces of clothing available in four different colors.
Two-time Dancing With The Stars champ Cheryl Burke and Time Life have teamed up to create Disco Abs, a disco-centric fitness DVD series that allows fans to say buh-bye to flab to the beat of all our favorite songs from the 1970’s. Read the rest of this entry »
On Friday’s Ellen, professional dancer Cheryl Burke, a two-time Dancing With The Stars champion, opened up about the negative public reaction she’s received as a result of her reported weight gain during the seventh season of the ABC ballroom competition.
“I was like, maybe I should just starve myself for four weeks just so people would shut up,” says Cheryl, who is a size four, mind you. “But at the end of the day … I’m an athlete. I like to eat, I like to work out, and I like to feel healthy, and I feel healthy.”
“You don’t have to be a size zero to be beautiful,” she added.
Professional dancer and two-time Dancing with the Stars champion Cheryl Burke joined Ryan Seacrest for a chat on his syndicated radio show “On-Air with Ryan Seacrest” on Tuesday morning.
Cheryl Burke has opened her own ballroom dance studio. The two-time Dancing With The Stars champion ripped down the red ribbon on The Cheryl Burke Dance Center in her hometown of San Francisco on Friday night. Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday is the day for reality show sex scandals. Two-time Dancing With The Stars champion Cheryl Burke stands accused of sleeping with Jessica Simpson’s ex-brother-in-law, Drew Lachey. The affair ended in late January after Cheryl’s then-boyfriend, Matthew Lawerence, caught the professional dancer performing oral sex on the very-married Drew in a parked car in Jacksonville, Florida. Read the rest of this entry »