Brooke Burke
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| Brooke Burke | |
| Birth name | Brooke Burke |
| Born | September 8, 1971 (age 35) Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Official site | http://www.brookeburke.com |
| Notable roles | Host of Wild On! Host of Rock Star |
Brooke Burke (born September 8, 1971) is an American television personality and model, known for hosting Wild On! (1999-2002) and Rock Star since its debut on CBS in July 2005.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Burke was born as the fourth of seven children in Hartford, Connecticut to Donna and George Burke, and was raised in Tucson, Arizona. She is Jewish on her mother's side and was raised in the Jewish religion;[1][2] she also has Irish, French and Portuguese ancestry. She studied broadcast journalism at UCLA, but was signed to top modeling agencies, including the renowned Ford Models Agency, and subsequently appeared in prominent television commercials for Bally Fitness clubs, Coca-Cola, and Discover Card.
[edit] Career
From 1999-2002, Burke became well-known while hosting Wild On!, a popular travel series on the E! Entertainment Television channel, replacing previous host Jules Asner. As part of the series, she travelled the world extensively, profiling many popular travel destinations.
Burke first appeared nude during her early modeling career for the website BlueNudes.com, and most notably after gaining fame in the May 2001 and November 2004 issues of Playboy and has also appeared in lad mags such as Maxim, Stuff, and FHM. Maxim magazine named her #94 in their 2006 Hot 100 List and featured her on their gallery. During the rise of her career Burke had D-cup breast implants, as seen in her aforementioned first Playboy shoot. Those implants were later replaced or reduced to C-cup size, as seen in her second layout for the magazine. She has voiced "Rachel" in Electronic Arts' video game Need for Speed: Underground 2, and asks the "People and Places" questions in the video game, Trivial Pursuit Unhinged.
Burke has fronted infomercials promoting a swiss ball video home fitness workout named "Gunnar Peterson's Core Secrets," and appears in the first video of the series entitled "20 Minute Full Body Workout." The infomercials have screened in New Zealand and Australia.
Since 2005, Burke is currently the host the CBS summer reality show Rock Star. An American Idol-like series in which anticipated singers are qualified to become either frontman or frontwoman for a rockband. In the first season, the show received low ratings, but has renewed the show annually, for each new and/or used rockband.
Brooke Burke is on the cover of the 2006 Burger King advergaming title PocketBike Racer. She also appears in Big Bumpin'. She stars as a playable character in both games. Later that year she was listed as one of Blender's hottest women of film and TV. [3]
[edit] Personal life
In July 2005, Burke and her husband, Dr. Garth Fisher, announced their separation. The couple had been married since 2001 and they have two daughters, Neriah (born March 2000, and named after her friend and former Playmate Neriah Davis), and Sierra Sky (born April 2002).
Burke is now dating French-born actor David Charvet. On the September 6th episode of Rockstar: Supernova, she revealed that she was expecting another girl. On August 21, 2006 People Magazine reported the couple are engaged with Charvet having proposed to Burke at a summer party. [1] On January 8, 2007, she gave birth to a baby girl named Heaven Rain Charvet.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Bloom, Nate. "Celebrity Jews", The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, 2005-12-16. Retrieved on 2006-12-13.
- ^ Bloom, Nate. "Celebrity Jews", The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, 2006-06-16. Retrieved on 2006-12-13.
- ^ "http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2464&src=blender_ed"
