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Twitterer Of The Day (2-17-11)

Posted: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 0:23:39 PST

Okay, I gotta get this out from the word go, here. I have a crush (albeit a healthy & respectable one) on Dancing With The Star's tango tantalizer Cheryl Burke.

A hoofer that wouldn't have been out of place in the golden age of movie musicals, the San Francisco native is like a dash of Chita Rivera, a pinch of Rita Hayworth and the spice of Cyd Charisse, but with a flair and style all her own. In her 10 seasons on the ABC smash, she has placed in the final four and won the program's coveted mirror ball trophy twice, and in her first two seasons to boot with singer Drew Lachey and Dallas Cowboy legend Emmett Smith.

Since then, Cheryl has finished in the top 5 five times with one third place finish, and one runner up, the latter with perhaps her best partner, Giles Marini. Even when she's paired with hopeless causes like Wayne Newton and Tom DeLay, Burke gives her all with nothing less than 100 percent professionalism. Such precision made Cheryl the youngest ever Emmy nominee for choreography on the show in 2006.

In recent years, her downtime activities have included the opening of her first dance studio in the Bay Area (Cheryl Burke Dance) along with a 2^nd locale in Mountain View, CA and a third slated to open in Orange County in 2011.

Burke's current project is her first book, Dancing Lessons: How I Found Passion and Potential on the Dance Floor and in Life, a 272 page memoir which currently ranks as the number one best selling biography on Amazon.com. - Covering her childhood years through her Dancing season with Chad Ochocinco, Lessons presents an initially shy child who overcomes her fears through ballet and dance while grappling with demons created by sexual abuse when she was just 5 years old, and dating violence in her teenage years

Through sheer determination, Cheryl fought back and sough solace via her art, despite the fact that her career was in a bit of a lull in the mid-2000's. Then her luck changed in late 2005 when on the recommendation of fellow dancer Louis Van Amstel, a producer for the then surprise summer season hit Dancing With The Stars contacted Burke to be one of the professional dancers for their sophomore season. Although it's incredible to believe given her performances on the shows from day one, Cheryl had an intense fear of television cameras that almost made her turn the gig down. But utilizing the same courage built up from difficult times past, she went for it...and the rest is Burke-story....

Cheryl's Twitter feed currently reads like a diary of a woman on the go excitedly pushing her first book while giving updates on potential additional autograph/book signings as they become available, and being just in the dark as the rest of us on who her new partner for season 12 will be.

Talk about a good time to cha-cha-cha aboard Cheryl Burke's Twitter train.

-Dancing Lesson Excerpt from Good Morning America's website

-Order Dancing Lessons from Amazon.com

-Follow Cheryl On Twitter

-J.R.

-Jeffrey Rosado is a writer, performer, pop culture historian and all around nice guy..until Len from Dancing With The Stars gets all cranky on our Cheryl...

Follow Jeffrey On Twitter: marquee_man

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