Brooke Burke is an American fashion model and actress. She hosts the reality television shows Celebrity Travel and Rock Star. Burke became the winner of the seventh season of American "Dancing with the Stars".
Brooke Lisa Burke-Charvet has Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, French ancestors. Raised by her stepfather.
Successful start of a TV presenter career
Brooke was born in 1971 in Hartford. Her biography began on September 8 in the family of Donna and George Burke. The child became the eldest of nine children. The childhood of the future celebrity was spent in the city of Tucson. Parents broke up, and Brooke grew up with her stepfather.
At the age of 14, the girl took part in a beauty contest for the first time and became its winner. She studied at the Sahuaro and Palo Verde schools. After completing the course, Brooke went to study at the Faculty of Journalism in Los Angeles in 1986 at the California Institute. Then she studied at Santa Monica Business School.
At the same time, the girl started working in a modeling agency. The career started well. Soon, the girl's photo adorned the covers of glossy magazines, pictures showed off in popular catalogs, on advertising posters. Brooke has starred in television commercials for several well-known corporations.
The attractive student has become the face of Discover Card, Yankee's Shortstop and Bally's Total Fitness. In 1999, serious changes took place in the girl's creative biography. TV company “E! Entertainment Television was looking for a replacement for the 1997 Travel with Celebrity show, Jules Asner.
Friends invited the girl to visit the casting. The meeting with the producers was successful. Brooke received a probationary period in Spain at the Tomato Wars. The TV company liked the work, the applicant was offered a three-year contract. According to the concept of the program, its host travels the world, visits many famous sights. The ratings of programs with Brooke's participation have risen much higher, reaching the maximum, and the girl herself has turned into a celebrity.
Television and modeling business
The agreement ended in 2002. Burke left the show with Cindy Taylor. However, the replacement lasted only a year, as the transmission was rapidly losing popularity. More show under the same name did not appear on the screens. Since Burke's show almost always led in a bikini, attention was focused not on the plot, but on the presenter. As a result, several erotic publications offered Brooke contracts.
In 2000, the model starred for the BlueNudes website, in 2001 and 2004 she appeared in Playboy, gaining world fame after provocative photo shoots. She has starred as an actress and model for Maxim, Stuff, FHM and Celebrity Skin. The girl did not dream of such fame, she was much more eager to do something less noticeable. In her youth, she dreamed of becoming a drummer in a rock band.
Cooperation with television after parting with the TV show did not end. The ex-presenter received offers to take part in the more rated "Rank", "Paths to the red carpet", "Weak link". In 2004, the star appeared in special issues of the telenovelas "Gilmore Girls", "Behind the Scenes", "Smallville".
At the same time, the publishing house "Electronic Arts" offered the successful aspiring actress an agreement to use her image in the computer game "Need for Speed: Underground 2". As herself, she appeared in two video games in 2006: Pocketbike Racer and Big Bumpin '.
Filmmaking
Brooke has starred in three movies. The film debut was the 1986 film "The Spirit of Vengeance." In a mystical thriller about the struggle of an unknown hero with a gang of racers terrorizing a small town, she played a roller-skating waitress. The role was so small that the name of the performer was not indicated in the credits.
In 2004, the model starred in two films. She played Katherine in Sandwich and played Jill in Twilight. Since 2002, the star has been participating in television series. She was in the role of a reporter, park ranger, nurse.
In the telenovela 2014 "Melissa and Joey" as a guest star Brooke played Felicia Mancini. According to the plot, the formerly successful top manager Joey Longo has to turn into a nanny for the children of the former boss after the collapse of his career due to a scam and the flight of his boss. The teenagers Lennox and Ryder are taken into the care of their aunt, a city councilor.
Business and family
In addition to her modeling and artistic career, Burke has built a successful business. She presented a line of swimwear designed by her. The host and model “Just Brook” named the work. Later, calendars with her pictures appeared. In 2005, the series was ranked # 1 for model variants in the United States and # 5 for all calendars released in the country.
In 2005, Burke opened Baboosh Baby. She sells clothes for pregnant women. On the website of the corporation, Burke maintains a blog in which he talks about his own kids.
The star arranged a personal life. She became the wife of plastic surgeon Garth Fischer in 2001. The family has two daughters. The eldest, the star named after her best friend Naria Shay. Sierra Sky was born two years later.
The marriage broke up, and in August 2011 Burke remarried musician David Charvet. The affair with him with a successful entrepreneur lasted for several years. The couple had two children: daughter Heaven Rein and son Shaya Braven. In April 2018, the couple decided to leave.
In the list of the sexiest women in the world according to the magazine "Stuff" Brooke is in the top ten. In 2007 the actress was named the sexiest TV presenter by the Blender music publication.
