Dancing With the Stars pro Cheryl Burke opened up exclusively to Us Weekly about her sobriety journey, soul searching after her public divorce from Matthew Lawrence and what lies ahead for her future in dance.
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An open book! Dancing With the Stars fan-favorite Cheryl Burke didn’t hold anything back when revealing little-known facts about herself exclusively to Us Weekly.
The 38-year-old professional dancer — whose divorce from ex-husband Matthew Lawrence was finalized earlier this month — candidly told Us, “It has been a year since I’ve had sex or an intimate relationship of any kind.”
Despite her split from the 42-year-old Boy Meets World alum, Burke added that she “would like to get married again someday.”
The former couple, who met after the Mrs. Doubtfire actor’s older brother, Joey Lawrence, was partnered with Burke on DWTS in 2006, called it quits earlier this year after nearly three years of marriage.
Last week, the Disney+ star — who is partnered with meteorologist Sam Champion on season 31 of DWTS — implied that she kicked Lawrence out of their house amid their split.
“Kick him out of my house ✅, Hire divorce attorney ✅ [and] file for divorce ✅,” Burke shared in the September 21 TikTok clip.
In May, the California native reflected on how she feels living alone after her breakup from Lawrence.
“I’ve lived in this home for 15 years and I’ve had lots of memories as you can imagine. It’s a new quiet in my life,” she exclusively told Us at the time. “And there are times I love it. [Then] there are times that I’m, like, really conscious about it and I’m observing my thoughts and I’m like, ‘Wow, the peace is quiet.’ I have definitely put in a lot of new energy in trying to make this kind of like my Zen.”
Keep scrolling for more candid confessions from Burke:
1. My current favorite snack is raw cashews.
2. The first concert I ever went to was UB40.
3. Growing up, my dance icon was Michael Jackson.
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Dancing With the Stars pro Cheryl Burke opened up exclusively to Us Weekly about her sobriety journey, soul searching after her public divorce from Matthew Lawrence and what lies ahead for her future in dance.
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Kanye West has reportedly been banned from Instagram, leading him to make a comeback on Twitter after two years away.NBC News confirmed that the rapper was barred from the social photo-sharing platform, with a representative for Meta – the company that owns Instagram – saying he was restricted from posting, and had content removed by a moderator, after violating the rules and guidelines. It was not specified exactly what posts were removed by Meta, but as NBC noted, one deleted yesterday (October 8) saw West share anti-Semitic sentiments.It came after Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs responded to West’s recent gaffe at this year’s Paris Fashion Week – where he wore a shirt emblazoned with the phrase “White Lives Matter”, a slogan tied to white supremacist movements – and West shared screenshots of a text exchange between the two rappers to Instagram.
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Seinfeld, anyone?) or the equally awkward drugstore aisle you stumble into when hunting for toothbrushes or tampons. Yet while few things make you spin your cart around faster than towering stacks of adult diapers, you might know more about bladder control problems than you care to acknowledge. Calling it “leakage” or rationalizing that it’s just a few drops (er, tablespoons?) doesn’t make the involuntary release of urine any less real.
with my first child, it was a total surprise. I wasn't on birth control. I was in college and not married.