Cheryl Burke

Cheryl Stephanie Burke (born May 3, 1984) is a professional dancer. She is best known for being the first two-time champion of ABC's American version of Dancing with the Stars.

Cheryl Burke and Mark Ballas Dance the Cha-Cha for a Cause


Cheryl Burke: I Was Never "Overweight"


Cheryl Burke on Loveline


Cheryl Burke Talks New Cast of "Dancing With The Stars" on Lopez Tonight


Cheryl Burke's Dancing Flings?


Rob Kardashian & Cheryl Burke - Foxtrot








Early life

Burke grew up in Atherton, California. Her father is of Irish and Russian descent and her mother is Filipino.[1] Her family dances for recreation and has a dance floor at home. At age four, she began taking ballet lessons and performing locally. She then began ballroom dancing and decided to change her focus. She trained in both standard ballroom and Latin dances. She began competing at age 13. Cheryl attended Menlo-Atherton High School, graduated in 2002. In fall of 2007 Cheryl was awarded the key to the city from the mayor of Atherton at her old high school.
[edit]Dancing with the Stars

Burke won her first championship with 98 Degrees member Drew Lachey in the second season. She won her second championship with retired football star Emmitt Smith in the third season.
Burke returned to the ballroom on March 19, 2007 for Season 4, partnered with actor Ian Ziering. Burke and Ziering were eliminated in the semi-finals on May 15, 2007.


Burke in 2008
Burke participated in a 38-city Dancing with the Stars Tour from December 19, 2006 to February 11, 2007. She also joined the second summer tour, which visited 24 cities between June 20, 2007 in Austin, Texas and July 24, 2007 in Vancouver, Canada. Her celebrity partner for both tours was Drew Lachey.
Burke competed on Season 5. Her partner was Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton. They were the third couple eliminated from the competition on October 9, 2007.[2]
Burke participated with both Lachey & Newton in the Dancing with the Stars winter tour that kicked off December 18, 2007 in Seattle, Washington. The tour wrapped in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 10, 2008.[3]
Burke competed on Season 6 and was partnered with actor Cristián de la Fuente. They trained at Palm Beach, Florida's "Paramount Ballroom," which is owned by former U.S. Nine-Dance Champion Alec Lazo.[4] They made it to the finals and on May 20, 2008, Cheryl and Cristián placed 3rd in the Season 6 competition.
Burke returned to the show for Season 7 with partner Maurice Greene. They were eliminated in Week 8 on November 11, 2008 and came in 5th place.
Burke returned to the show's eighth season, in which she was paired with actor Gilles Marini. They were the runners-up for the season, losing to Shawn Johnson and Mark Ballas.
On August 17, 2009, it was announced that Burke would compete on the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars with partner Tom DeLay (former U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader). On October 6, 2009, Burke and DeLay withdrew from the competition because DeLay had stress fractures in both feet.[5]
In season ten Burke was partnered with Chad Ochocinco. They were eliminated in the semi-finals and came in fourth place.
Rick Fox was partnered with Burke in the show's eleventh season. They were voted off in the seventh week of the competition and came in 6th place.
For the 12th Season, Burke was partnered with wrestler Chris Jericho. They were voted off in the sixth week of the competition.
Season Partner Place
1 None N/A
2 Drew Lachey 1st
3 Emmitt Smith 1st
4 Ian Ziering 4th
5 Wayne Newton 10th
6 Cristián de la Fuente 3rd
7 Maurice Greene 5th
8 Gilles Marini 2nd
9 Tom DeLay 13th
10 Chad Ochocinco 4th
11 Rick Fox 6th
12 Chris Jericho 7th
13 Rob Kardashian
[edit]Performances
Season 2: Celebrity Partner Drew Lachey Average: 27.7 Placed: 1st:
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha/ "She Bangs" 8 8 8 Safe
2 Quickstep/ "Neutron Dance" 9 9 9 Safe
3 Jive/ "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" 9 9 9 Safe
4 Paso Doble/ "Thriller" 9 9 10 Safe
5 Samba/ "Dirrty" 9 9 9 Safe
6 Tango/ "Shut Up"
Viennese Waltz/ "Fallin'" 10
No 10
Scores 10
Given Safe
7
Semi-finals Foxtrot/ "It Had to Be You"
Rumba/ "Total Eclipse of the Heart" 9
10 9
9 8
10 Safe
8
Finals Paso Doble/ "Thriller"
Freestyle/ "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)"
Jive/ "Hound Dog" 10
10
9 10
10
9 10
10
9 WON

Season 3: Celebrity Partner Emmitt Smith Average: 26.8 Placed: 1st:
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha/ "Son of a Preacher Man" 8 8 8 Safe
2 Quickstep/ "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" 8 8 8 Safe
3 Tango/ "Simply Irresistible" 7 6 6 Safe
4 Paso Doble/ "España Cañí" 8 8 8 Safe
5 Samba/ "Cha Cha[disambiguation needed]" 9 9 9 Safe
6 Jive/ "Lewis Boogie Blues"
Disco/ "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough" 8
No 8
Scores 9
Given No Elimination
7 Waltz/ "Hushabye Mountain"
Mambo/ "Que Bueno Baila Usted" 10
10 9
10 9
9 Safe
8 Foxtrot/ "Witchcraft"
Rumba/ "Spooky" 8
9 8
10 9
10 Safe
9
Semi-finals Waltz/ "At This Moment"
Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Dance to the Music" 9
10 10
10 10
10 Bottom Two
10
Finals Samba/ "Sir Duke"
Mambo/ "Que Bueno Baila Usted"
Freestyle/ "U Can't Touch This" 10
10
10 10
10
10 10
10
9 WON

Season 4: Celebrity Partner Ian Ziering Average: 24.8 Placed: 4th:
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha/ "Mony Mony" 7 7 7 Safe
2 Quickstep/ "Don't Get Me Wrong" 7 8 7 Safe
3 Jive/ "Hard Headed Woman" 8 8 8 Safe
4 Waltz/ "He Was Beautiful" 7 9 8 Safe
5 Samba/ "Dance Like This" 8 8 8 Safe
6 Paso Doble/ "Waiting for Tonight"
Swing/ "Rock This Town" 8
No 8
Scores 8
Given Safe
7 Tango/ "Holding Out for a Hero"
Mambo/ "Gimme the Light" 9
9 9
9 9
9 Safe
8 Foxtrot/ "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Rumba/ "Imagine" 8
8 7
8 7
9 Safe
9
Semi-finals Tango/ "Maneater"
Jive/ "All Shook Up" 9
10 10
10 9
10 Eliminated

Season 5: Celebrity Partner Wayne Newton Average: 17.3 Placed: 10th:
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha/ "You're the First, You're the Last, You're my Everything" 6 7 6 Safe
2 Quickstep/ "Viva Las Vegas" 5 5 5 Bottom Two
3 Tango/ "La Cumparsita" 6 6 6 Eliminated

Season 6: Celebrity Partner Cristián de la Fuente Average: 25.2 Placed: 3rd:
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha/ "Bang Bang" 7 7 7 No Elimination
2 Quickstep/ "Americano" 7 6 7 Last To Be Called Safe
3 Jive/ "Don't Stop Me Now" 8 8 9 Safe
4 Paso Doble/ "La Virgen de la Macarena" 9 8 9 Safe
5 Rumba/ "If You're Not the One" 7 8 8 Bottom Two
6 Foxtrot/ "Come Fly with Me"
Country Western/"Cotton-Eyed Joe" 9
No 9
Scores 9
Given Safe
7 Viennese Waltz/ "I'll Make Love to You"
Samba/ "Sobe Son" 8
7 8
7 9
7 Safe
8 Tango/ "Beat It"
Mambo/ "Saca Tu Mujer" 10
10 9
9 9
10 Safe
9
Semi-finals Viennese Waltz/ "Satellite"
Samba/ "Sweetheart From Venezuela" 9
10 9
9 9
10 Last To Be Called Safe
10
Finals Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Dancing on the Ceiling"
Freestyle/ "Suavemente" 8
9 9
8 9
9 Third Place

Season 7: Celebrity Partner Maurice Greene Average: 22.9 Placed: 5th:
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Foxtrot/ "Doing it to Death" 6 6 6 Safe
1 Mambo/ "I Do the Jerk" 7 7 7 Safe
2 Rumba/ "Mercy Mercy Me" 7 6 6 Safe
3 Jive/ "Rock Around the Clock" 8 8 8 Safe
4 Samba/ "That's the Way (I Like It)" 6 7 7 Safe
5 Salsa/ "Everything I Can't Have" 9 9 9 Safe
6 Viennese Waltz/ "Gravity"
"Old School Hip Hop"/ "It Takes Two" 7
No 7
Scores 7
Given Safe
7 Cha-cha-cha/ "Cupid Shuffle"
Paso Doble/ "Rocks" 8
10 9
9 8
10 Safe
8 Quickstep/ "Puttin' on the Ritz"
Paso Doble/ "Let It Rock" 8
8 8
8 8
8 Eliminated

Season 8: Celebrity Partner Gilles Marini Average: 28.1 Placed: 2nd:
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha/ "Addicted to Love" 8 8 8 Safe
2 Quickstep/ "Kryptonite" 9 9 9 Safe
3 Samba/ "El Matador" 9 9 9 Safe
4 Argentine Tango/ "Assassin's Tango" 10 10 10 Safe
5 Paso Doble/ "Habanera[disambiguation needed]" 10 9 10 Safe
6 Jive/ "Dance, Dance" 9 8 9 Safe
7 Viennese Waltz/ "I Go to Sleep" 9 9 9 Safe
8 Lindy Hop/ "Go Daddy-O"
Tango/ "Womanizer" 9
9 9
9 9
10 Safe
9 Foxtrot/ "Fever"
Rumba/ "Sexual Healing" 10
9 9
9 10
9 Safe
10
Semi-finals Waltz/ "Come Away with Me"
Salsa/ "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" 10
10 10
10 10
10 Safe
11
Finals Paso Doble/ "So What"
Freestyle/ "Flashdance (What a Feeling)"
Argentine Tango/ "Assassin's Tango" 10
9
10 10
10
10 10
9
10 Second Place

Season 9: Celebrity Partner Tom DeLay Average: 16.3 Placed: 13th:
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/"Wild Thing" 6 5 5 Safe
1 Viennese Waltz Relay/"I'm Your Man" -- 4 -- Safe
2 Tango/"Por una Cabeza" 6 6 6 Safe
3 Samba/"Why Can't We Be Friends?" 6 4 5 Withdrew

Season 10: Celebrity Partner Chad Ochocinco Average: 22.2 Placed: 4th
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/"It's Just Begun" 6 6 6 No Elimination
2 Foxtrot/"100 Years" 6 5 5 Safe
3 Paso Doble/"Cancion Del Mariachi" 7 6 7 Safe
4 Rumba/"Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart" 7 6 8 Technique Score
4 Performance Score 8 7 8 Safe
5 Quickstep/"The Bare Necessities" 6 6 6 Safe
6 Argentine Tango/"El Sonido De La Milonga" 8 8 8 Safe
7 Viennese Waltz/"Sparks" 8 9 8 Safe
7 Cha-Cha-Cha/"Telephone" 9 9 9 Safe
8 Tango/"Sweet Dreams" 7 7 7 --
8 60s' Jive/"Love Man 8 8 8 Last To Be Called Safe
9 semi-final Waltz/"If You Don't Know Me By Now" 9 9 9 --
9 semi-final Samba/"Alejandro 8 8 9 Eliminated

Season 11: Celebrity Partner Rick Fox Average: 22.3 (as of October 4, 2010) Placed: 6th: Week 4 - Double Score Showdown - Technique/Performance score
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Viennese Waltz/"Crazy" 8 7 7 Safe
2 Jive/"Tush" 7 7 7 Safe
3 Samba/"Whine Up" 8 8 8 Safe
4 Argentine Tango/"Violentango" 6/6 7/7 6/7 Safe
5 Rumba/"Hills Street Blues" Theme 8 8 8 Last To Be called safe
6 Tango/"You Really Got Me" 8 8 8 Safe
7 Quickstep/"Hey Pachuco" 10/9 9 9 Eliminated

Season 12: Celebrity Partner Chris Jericho Average: 22.3 Placed: 7th
Week # Dance/Song/Musician(s) Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/"Should I Stay or Should I Go" 7 6 6 No Elimination
2 Quickstep/"I Got Rhythm" 8 7 8 Safe
3 Rumba/"Let It Be" 7 7 7 Last To Be Called Safe
4 Paso Doble/"In the Hall of the Mountain King" 8 7 8 Safe
5 Viennese Waltz/"America The Beautiful" 9 8 9 Last To Be Called Safe
6 Tango/"Don't Stop Believin" 7 8 7 Eliminated

[edit]Acting

Burke had a guest role on the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, in the episode "Loosely Ballroom" along with fellow Dancing professionals Louis van Amstel, Ashly DelGrosso, and Lacey Schwimmer. She portrays Shannon, a nurse attending to the ensemble cast during a dance contest at the series setting, The Tipton Hotel. In the final round of the competition, Burke's character volunteers to replace an ill competitor. She and her partner go on to win the competition.
In November 2009, US Magazine magazine announced that Burke is in talks to star as Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway during the hiatus from Dancing With the Stars.[6]
[edit]Awards and honors

2005 World Cup Professional Rising Star Latin Champion
2005 San Francisco Latin Champion
2005 Ohio Star Ball Rising Star Latin Champion
UK Championships
4th in U.S. in the "Under 21s."
Dancing with the Stars (season 2) champion with Drew Lachey
Dancing with the Stars champion Season 3 with Emmitt Smith
Two-time nominee: Prime Time Emmy 2006, Outstanding Choreography for Paso Doble and Outstanding Choreography for Freestyle; Burke is the youngest nominee to ever receive nominations in that category. (1)
On October 20, 2007, Cheryl won the Role Model Award at the 7th Annual Filipino/American Library Gala.
On the 2008 Asian Excellence Awards, she won the Viewer's Choice award for Favorite T.V. Personality.
[edit]Molestation

In 2011, she released her autobiography, Dancing Lessons, describing how she, at age 6, was molested by a handyman helping her family, who repeatedly fondled her. She believed it was wrong but wanted to gain the affection of the person. The molester was sentenced to 22 years in prison and was recently released. Burke said that she is fearful of the person.[7]

References from Wikipedia.com