Cheryl Burke News

It's all but confirmed at this point that Lance Bass will appear on the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars.

While we think it's unfair for a former member of a boy band to participate on the series - he used to dance for a living! - another controversy has sprung up around Bass.

Will Dancing with the Stars pair the openly gay singer with another male?

Cheryl Burke doesn't think so. She predicts we won't be seeing same-sex footwork anytime soon.

"I don't think that would happen," Burke told E! earlier this summer "I don't think America is ready to watch two men dancing."

However, General Hospital star and first season Dancing with the Stars winner Kelly Monaco would like to see Bass paired with a male.

"If you want to shock the world and give them something new, I think it's fantastic," Monaco said. "I support it 100 percent!"

The reality TV rumor mill is, again, in full swing.

Earlier today, we published a report about Jennifer Hudson dating former I Love New York contestant, Punk.

Now, we can't help but wonder if Dancing with the Stars professional and soap opera hunk Antonio Sabato Jr. are an item. They were recently spotted out together:

Antonio Sabato Jr. stars on General Hospital: Night Shift. We wonder if he's taking Cheryl Burke home for a night shift of her own... if you know what we mean!

Two of our favorite reality TV ladies, The Bachelorette star DeAnna Pappas and the Dancing With the Stars stunner Cheryl Burke, have both been spotted lately wearing red bikinis. Tell us who you think looks better on the beach in red ...

Poor Graham Bunn. The Bachelorette contestant missed out on seeing DeAnna Pappas wearing this (and potentially less) for life. Meanwhile, a toned Cheryl Burke is ready to turn heads on the next season of Dancing With the Stars!

When Cheryl Burke isn't Dancing with the Stars, she's cooling off on the beach.

And looking hot while doing so!

Here's a recent shot of the dancing professional taking advantage of a summer vacation:

In between seasons of Dancing with the Stars, Cheryl Burke is taking a break. A long, well-deserved break.

"I'm flying back and forth to San Francisco a lot," she said when asked about hiatus plans, "and also trying to take a vacation. I haven't taken a vacation in three years, because normally we go on tour [in the summer]. I have the time, and the sun, to just chill and relax and spend time in my dance studio."

Why is Burke spending time in Northern California? Because her dance studio opened there on April 4 and it's already seeing a big turn out.

"It's going great," she told TV Guide. "We just had 250 little kids come by wanting to learn how to dance so we're really excited."

We already know - for the most part - that Dancing with the Stars partners Derek Hough and Shannon Elizabeth are dating.

Now, Cheryl Burke is acting especially coy about rumors that link her with Nim's Island star Gerard Butler.

"You know, honestly he's good friends with [partner] Cristian de la Fuente and his wife â€" and we met through them," Burke at least admitted to Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show today. "He actually lives in my apartment building, and we've been friends for a few months."

But, Cheryl, what about that rumored kiss â€" during a party at Eva Longoria Parker's restaurant Beso in Los Angeles â€" between you and Butler?

"You know, everyone says hello and says goodbye and kisses each other," Burke told Seacrest. "Don't you, Ryan?"

Sounds like an admission to us!

At Us Weekly's Hot Hollywood party last week, a pair of Dancing with the Stars beauties burned up the dance floor.

It's no shock that Cheryl Burke and Karina Smirnoff look right at home on the dance floor. So far, through a few weeks of season six, each is still alive in the competition.

Dancing With the Stars professional Cheryl Burke is opening her first dance studio.

Opening April 4 in San Francisco (Burke's hometown), the Cheryl Burke Dance will "be a place where students of all ages can come to explore ballroom dance," Burke said in a statement.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Dancing With the Stars host Tom Bergeron and her former dancing partner Drew Lachey will be at the grand opening.

We'd like to wish Cheryl the best on this endeavor.

Think all those performances on Dancing with the Stars are arranged by the professional dancers, like Cheryl Burke? Think again, according to a new report.

Spies say that many of the DWTS routines are arranged by outside choreographers, especially when it comes to the "younger, less experienced" professional dancers, like Burke, Kym Johnson, Derek Hough, and his sister Julianne.

The show makes it appear as if the professional partners create all the moves for the celeb contestants - but that's just not the case.

All that rehearsal video can be a little deceptive.

One source says that "Cheryl Burke is the worst" when it comes to arranging her own material on Dancing With the Stars and "relies heavily on outside help."

Dancing With the Stars' Cristian de la Fuente and Cheryl Burke.

There are also reports that one of the professional choreographers - Wendy Johnson - worked on the dance that won Drew Lachey the title.

For the record, Cheryl Burke's rep says that any insinuation that she gets outside help is a blatant lie, adding that Wendy Johnson is actually a very good friend of Cheryl's - she's known her since she was 11 or 12-years-old.

Also, the rep says, Cheryl Burke "spends Tuesday night choreographing her routines in her apartment." In any case, an ABC source says it's not against the rules for the dancers to use outside help, so it doesn't really matter. Just interesting.

Cheryl Burke and Drew Lachey were partners on Dancing with the Stars. They are not partners between the sheets, however.

The pair is being forced to deny tabloid reports that more than just foxtrotting was going on during their season together.

Cheryl Burke and Drew Lachey captured the Dancing with the Stars trophy. But the relationship was about dancing, not sexing each other up, both sides say.

A report claiming the couple had an affair are "completely false and cannot be further from the truth," a rep for Lachey said, while a rep for Burke adds:

"The story that Cheryl is involved with Drew Lachey started two years ago when they were partners on Dancing with the Stars. It wasn't true then and it isn't true now."

A source close to the show also called the report "untrue and irresponsible."