Brooke Burke

Brooke Burke (born September 8, 1971) is an American television personality, fitness personality, author, actress, and businesswoman.

She attended both Sahuaro High School and Palo Verde High School in Tucson where she was homecoming queen in 1989.

She later studied broadcast journalism.

After rising to national fame as a lingerie model for the Frederick's of Hollywood catalog in the early 1990s, Burke was tapped to serve as the host of the popular E! travel series Wild On! from 1999 to 2002.

She is known for hosting the E! Network travel show Wild On! (1999–2002), CBS's Rock Star (2005–2006), and TV Lands' She's Got the Look (2010).

She also voiced the character "the subservient chicken" in an early 2000s game called Big Bumpin'.

Burke was also a playable character in the game PocketBike Racer.

In 2005, Burke landed her first primetime network hosting gig on CBS's Rock Star: INXS (2005) and the subsequent Rock Star: Super Nova, both produced by Mark Burnett.

In 2007, Burke founded and launched BabooshBaby.com, the online store for her popular post-pregnancy belly wraps Tauts.

Burke later developed Baboosh Body, a fitness product (belly wrap) made to trim the tummy.

On November 25, 2008, Burke, with Derek Hough as her partner, won the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars beating Super Bowl champion Warren Sapp and his partner Kym Johnson.

Burke shares the honor of being one of only three contestants to spend eight out of ten weeks at the top of the leaderboard.

The other two contestants to achieve this feat are Kristi Yamaguchi and Nicole Scherzinger.

Burke has featured on the cover of many fitness, fashion, and lifestyle magazines, including Fitness, Women's Health, Redbook, and Ladies Home Journal.

She also has appeared in numerous men's interest magazines such as Maxim, Stuff, Playboy, and FHM.

After winning the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, Burke served as co-hostess of the show from season ten to season seventeen (2010–2013).

In 2010, Burke became the host of She's Got the Look on TV Land, a modeling competition series for women over 35.

That same year, she was named co-hostess of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, where she remained for seven seasons (2010–2013).

Burke served as the co-host of the Miss America pageant in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2016.

In 2011, she launched the online community for mothers, ModernMom.com, of which she remains the co-CEO.

Burke wrote her first book, The Naked Mom: A Modern Mom's Fearless Revelations, Savvy Advice, and Soulful Reflections, in 2011.

In it, she reflects on motherhood, Hollywood, romance, and the challenges of creating a blended family.

In 2012, Burke brought her own personal brand of fitness workouts to consumers via a DVD series with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

The four DVD series consisted of Transform Your Body with Brooke Burke: Strength & Condition, Transform Your Body with Brooke Burke: Tone & Tighten, Brooke Burke Body: Sexy Abs, and Brooke Burke Body: 30-Day Slimdown.

Inspired by her dedication to promote women's awareness of the importance of physical and mental health, Brooke's next fitness project was to create her signature "Booty Burn" workout which she personally teaches in her hometown of Malibu, California.

From 2016 to 2018, Burke hosted and co-produced the Saturday morning show Hidden Heroes, a hidden camera television show developed for teenagers in which each episode reveals the widespread goodwill in our world by secretly capturing heroes in action.

In 2016, she co-authored her second book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Joy of Less, a guide to simplifying your life, with Amy Newmark.

Burke served as the face and voice of "Rachel Teller" in Electronic Arts' video game Need for Speed: Underground 2, for which she won a Spike Video Game Award.

She is also the voice of "People and Places" in Trivial Pursuit: Unhinged.

In 2017, Burke launched "Brooke Burke Body", a fitness app with workout videos featuring her.

Brooke Lisa Burke was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Tucson, Arizona, the younger of two siblings born to Donna and George Burke.

Her mother is of half Portuguese background; she was adopted and then raised Jewish.

Her father is of Irish and French descent and left the family when she was two years old.

She was thereafter raised by her Armenian stepfather in her mother's Jewish faith.

She is raising her children Jewish, although she also celebrates Christmas.

In 2017, Burke launched Brooke Burke Body, a fitness lifestyle app.

Her other television credits include hosting the digital series and network show I Dare You on TV Land (2018) as well as a recurring role on Melissa & Joey (2014–2015).

Burke is the newest host of Penn & Teller: Fool Us, replacing Alyson Hannigan.

Since January 2020, Burke has co-hosted an iHeartRadio podcast titled Intimate Knowledge with former The Real Housewives of Orange County star Meghan King Edmonds and Lila Darville.

Burke was married twice and engaged once more.