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Brooke Lisa Burke (born September 8,
1971) is an American television personality and model,
known for hosting Wild On! (1999-2002) and Rock Star.
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
(through her mother) and was raised in the Jewish
religion, 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.
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.
In 2005, Burke hosted the CBS summer reality show Rock
Star, an American Idol-like series in which aspiring
singers compete to become either the frontman or
frontwoman for a rockband. The show received low ratings
in its first season, but was renewed for a second season
in 2006. It was announced in May 2007 that Rock Star
would not return for a third season, instead replaced by
another Mark Burnett-produced show entitled Pirate
Master.
Brooke Burke stars as a playable character in the Burger
King advergaming title PocketBike Racer and in Big
Bumpin'. In 2007, she was listed as one of Blender's
hottest women of film and TV.
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 6, 2006 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. On January 8, 2007, she gave birth to a
baby girl named Heaven Rain Charvet. |
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