Brooke Burke reveals she was tempted to have an ‘affair’ with Derek Hough throughout successful ‘DWTS’ season

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By Erin Keller

From enemies to just about lovers — issues may’ve gotten spicy between Brooke Burke and Derek Hough once they had been partnered collectively on “Dancing with the Stars.”

Brooke, 52, revealed Monday on former “DWTS” professional Cheryl Burke’s “Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans” podcast that she and Hough, 38, initially weren’t “gelling” earlier than they gained the Mirrorball trophy in 2008, however ended up in search of {couples} remedy organized by producers.

However in the long run, the TV persona and former “DWTS” host admitted that she ended up “crushing on Derek.”

“Had I not been married [to actor David Charvet] … I might have truly hoped we might have had a love affair,” Brooke gushed to Cheryl.

“I might have had an affair with him. However hear, let me inform you why: You might be intertwined with somebody’s physique while you’re not a dancer. There isn’t a means that I’ve ever been so linked — moreover with a lover or a husband — than I used to be with Derek. And it’s each single day.”

The Submit has contacted reps for Brooke and Hough for remark.

Brooke continued: “So for 3 months, you’re in somebody’s arms. Why do you assume individuals fall in love? You odor them, you are feeling them, you’re respiration with them. It may be extra intimate than making love in a bed room — you’re making love on a dance ground, you are feeling extra linked.”

“When you have power, you’re doing this dance and also you’re within the rhythm, after which there’s belief, you then’re sharing worry, you’re doing one thing you’ve by no means executed. What number of instances do you undergo an expertise with somebody the place they’re all you’ve obtained?” she requested.

Brooke revealed to Burke that she’d solely ever “had one expertise with one particular person like that [outside the ballroom].

“Life-changing,” she referred to as it.

Brooke and Charvet divorced in 2020.

Brooke additionally addressed being ousted as “DWTS” host alongside Tom Bergeron, 68, in 2014.

“I wasn’t given a motive. I feel that’s the irritating half,” Brooke instructed Cheryl about her sudden departure. “It will have been one factor if I sucked on the job, or I had a difficulty or I had a falling out, or I used to be a diva, or actually difficult to work with, or the viewers simply straight up didn’t like me. There wasn’t actually a motive.”

She continued: “What I might have preferred would have been to have a really grownup, respectful dialog that may have gone one thing like ‘we’re not going to resume your contract and we’re making some modifications. We’re some new individuals, and we simply wish to provide you with a heads up, and in case you’d prefer to help that publicly, nice?”

“Ought to we make an announcement collectively? Nice,” Burke dreamed about how the dialog may’ve gone.

“I truthfully would have settle for that, revered it, and been all on board,” she claimed.

Regardless of the drama, Burke was grateful for the expertise.

“One of many biggest emotions was successful — but it surely was additionally finishing an expertise and giving it my all, every thing that I had. And that I used to be actually happy with. Even when I didn’t win, I used to be actually happy with … devoting three months, seven days per week. So I left [that competition] going, ‘I can do something!’”

She added: “I’m so fortunate that I used to be in a position to go the gap, and it wasn’t in regards to the successful. I’m fortunate that I used to be in a position to face challenges and present up on the opposite aspect of them and study, learn to talk, learn to present up for a companion, learn to present up for myself, learn to think about my very own physique and motion, learn to calm down the noise round me and be in a second that scared the s— out of me.”