Cheryl Stephanie Burke was born on 3 May 1984, in San Fransisco, California USA, of Russian and Irish (father) and Filipina (mother) descent, and is a professional dancer, the two-time winner of the ABCTV reality competition show “Dancing with the Stars” beginning in 2005, but she actually started performing when she was just four years of age.
So just how rich is Cheryl Burke? Sources indicate that Cheryl has an estimated net worth of $450,000. Most famous for her appearances on television, Cheryl Burke has starred in every season of “Dancing with the Stars” since her debut performance in Season 2, and she has set – and then subsequently broken – numerous records on the show. Together with fellow professional dancer Tony Dovolani, Burke is the longest-featured professional in the show, appearing in 16 seasons to date, and she was the first professional dancer to win multiple and consecutive seasons.
Cheryl Burke Net Worth $450,000
Cheryl Burke has spent most of her life on the dance floor. Burke took her first ballet lessons when she was four – and she has kept dancing since, switching from ballet to ballroom dancing, and training in Latin styles. Her skill in dancing allowed Cheryl Burke to debut as a high-level professional dancer in the second season of the ABC show “Dancing with the Stars” – where she was partnered with Drew Lachey, member of the American boy band “98 Degrees”. After a series of stunningly successful performances throughout the season, Burke and Lachey won first place, which certainly gave Cheryl Burke’s net worth an immense boost and allowed her to return for the third season of the show. This time partnered with former running back and American football legend Emmitt Smith, Burke once again vowed the audience and judges with her skill – once more coming first, and securing her place on subsequent seasons of “Dancing with the Stars”.
Since then, Cheryl Burke has appeared in every season of the show, and holds the distinction of being the only professional to have taken first, second and third places at least twice each, as well as having the most finale appearances of any dancer on the show – seven. Over the course of sixteen seasons, Cheryl Burke has been paired with such celebrities as television personality Rob Kardashian, singer and entertainer Wayne Newton, former sprinter and five-time World Champion Maurice Greene, and actor Ian Ziering. In 2006, Burke was nominated for two separate categories in the Prime Time Emmy awards – the youngest ever nominee in the category.
Obviously Burke’s fame as a skilled and successful high-profile dancer certainly has a lot to do with her overall net worth – and it has certainly helped that she has recently opened her own dance studio and released an autobiography called “Dancing Lessons”. Burke has also worked in advertising and promotions, including with companies including Sargento Foods and Depend Silhouette. Her work with the latter met with particular success, raising $50,000 slated for donation to charity – in addition to other profits.
In her personal life, Cheryl Burke dated entrepreneur JT Torregiani who had been a friend for a decade, but after a year or so the pair separated in May 2015.
