Brooke Burke admitted that she would have had an affair with 'Dancing with the Stars' pro and partner Derek Hough if she hadn't been with David Charvet.
It's been 15 years since Brooke Burke cascaded across the dance floor with partner Derek Hough on 'Dancing with the Stars,' but the actress and TV personality can still recount the passion she and Derek developed as if it were yesterday. In a conversation with former 'DWTS' pro Cheryl Burke on her podcast 'Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans,' Burke shared she'd been 'crushing on Derek' throughout the season.
would have had an affair with ,' she continued. 'But listen, let me tell you why: You are intertwined with someone's body when you are not a dancer. There is no way that I have ever been so connected – besides with a lover or a husband – than I was with Derek. And it's every single day…. So for three months, you are in someone's arms. Why do you think people fall in love? You smell them, you feel them, you're breathing with them.
Things were not always sensual and harmonious for Burke and Hough, though. The actress says when she first began working with Hough on 'Dancing with the Stars,' she thought 'he was so young and green and safe.' 'I had no idea he would be such a powerful, badass choreographer,' she said. But their chemistry was originally not palpable. 'We just weren't connected. We weren't gelling. We were having issues… off camera in rehearsals.
David was like, 'You need to go and talk to Derek, you guys need to get out of your funk, you need to go connect before a performance.' Because we were completely disconnected. We were in our own world, and yet we were a partnership, we were a team… and yet we weren't behaving like teammates.' Burke and Derek would go on to win the Mirror Ball Trophy that year. A representative for Hough did not immediately return Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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