Dancing With The Stars pro CONFIRMS showmances with THREE celebrities

Former Dancing With The Stars pro Cheryl Burke has confirmed she has had three showmances with her celebrity partners with one of them being revealed – but who is it?

The  39-year-old Filipino-American dancer – whose ex is actor Matthew Lawrence – got candid about the romances she had with her dancing partners on the reality competition show.

She made the revelation during a recent appearance on Amy Robach and TJ Holmes‘s podcast.

Cheryl said: ‘I’ve had my own showmances, you know. It happens.’

The television personality went on to reveal that she has had three showmances total and even tried to make her relationship with one of them work outside of the show.

She did confirm the name of one of the partners she had a showmance with as she attempted to keep mum at first.

The stunner shared: ‘One of them basically professed his love to me on Ellen DeGeneres.’

Cheryl then revealed it to be former NFL great wide receiver Chad Ochocinco.

The 46-year-old former Cincinnati Bengals player was her partner during the 10th season of the series in 2010 as they came in fourth place.

The two other possible showmance partners remains a mystery, however, through deductive reasoning it is a bit easier to figure out who it wasn’t.

The talented performer dated actor Matthew Lawrence from 2017 to 2022 and during that time she was partnered with Terrell Owens, Juan Pablo Di Pace, Ray Lewis, AJ McLean, Cody Rigsby, and Sam Champion.

It also is likely that it was not Beverly Hills, 90210 star Ian Ziering who she was partnered with for the show’s fourth season in 2007 as she famously revealed that she did not enjoy their time together as partners.

She said in 2016: ‘That’s the true colors that they didn’t show on Dancing With the Stars…Think of spending time with that for, like, eight to 10 hours a day, seven days a week, for three months. It made me want to slit my wrists. 

‘I was, like, crying to the executives. I was like, “Is there any way to please just eliminate us?” They’re like, “We can’t. We can’t do that.” And I swear, every time I asked, we just kept going. We would last till the end.’

She later apologized for her comments. 

So with those contestants eliminated the list of possible showmance partners would be: Drew Lachey, Emmitt Smith, Wayne Newton, Cristián de la Fuente, Maurice Greene, Gilles Marini, Tom DeLay, Rick Fox, Chris Jericho, Rob Kardashian, William Levy, D.L. Hughley, Jack Osbourne, Drew Carey, Antonio Sabàto Jr., and Ryan Lochte.

She won the coveted mirrorball trophy in back to back seasons two and three with Drew Lachey and Emmitt Smith, respectively.

Cheryl participated in 25 seasons of Dancing With The Stars before her 2022 departure with season 31.