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Sunday, August 14, 2011
Brooke Lisa Burke was born on 8th September 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.
She is the oldest of nine children born to Donna and George Burke.Burke is Jewish on her mother's side,and has Irish, French, and Portuguese ancestry.She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Tucson, Arizona. She attended both Sahuaro High School and Palo Verde High School in Tucson where she was homecoming queen in 1989, and later studied broadcast journalism at UCLA.
She is first book, The Naked Mom: A Modern Mom's Fearless Revelations,Savvy Advice, and Soulful Reflections, will be published February 1, 2011 by New American Library, and features her reflections on motherhood, Hollywood, romance and the challenges of creating a blended family.
They have two daughters together: Neriah (born in 2000),and Sierra Sky (born April, 2002).In 2005, Fisher and Burke filed for divorce, and their divorce was finalized in 2006.In August, 2006, Burke announced she was engaged to actor David Charvet.The couple married on August 12, 2011 in St. Barts.They have two children together: a daughter named Heaven Rain (born January, 2007),and a son named Shaya Braven (born March, 2008).
