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Cheryl Stephanie Bautista Burke (born May 3, 1984) is a professional dancer. She is best known for being one of the professional dancers on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, where she was the first female professional to win the show and the first professional to win twice and consecutively.
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Cheryl Burke ’s memoir 'Dancing Lessons: How I Found Passion and Potential on the Dance Floor and in Life' has just come out in paperback.
The only two-time 'DWTS' champ is remarkably candid in the book, especially about a deeply personal issue. When Burke was five, a family friend hired to pick her up from school and do odd jobs started molesting her. Eventually she testified in court, helping send him away to prison for nearly two decades. FOX411: Why did you decide to write this book?Cheryl Burke: I just decided I had a lot of stuff to let out and let my fans know more about me, like dancing has really changed my life, it’s really shaped who I am today. I felt like I had so many life experiences that I could really relate to each dance that I had done. I felt like I really wanted to express myself in that way.FOX411: How has dancing shaped you?Burke: It’s completely changed my life, my one way of expressing who I really am. As a girl growing up I was very shy and never outspoken, an...Tonight’s episode of “Dancing With the Stars” boasted a lot of firsts: Gilles Marini got the first perfect 30 score of the season; the show debuted two new dances, t...
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‘DWTS’ star Cheryl Burke helped jail her own molester. Read our QA with the brave star.
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