Former Dancing With the Stars competitor Cheryl Burke is giving fans an update on her dating life and celibacy journey before celebrating her 42nd birthday.
“I am dating myself, and so far it’s going too good,” Burke, 41, exclusively told Us Weekly on Friday, May 1, while attending Calamigos Ranch Resort & Spa’s Leading Hotels of the World accreditation celebration. “I don’t know if I ever want to be dating again, to be quite honest, but if it happens, so be it. I’m not searching, that’s for sure.”
The dancer continued, “I will never do a dating app. I don’t even know what that is. All I know is that I look at my phone enough that if I put a dating app on there, you’ll never get my eyes ever. I’ll turn cross-eyed. So there you go.”
Burke has been voluntarily celibate since her 2022 divorce from Matthew Lawrence. The two met in 2006, started dating in 2007, broke up in 2008, reunited in 2017, got engaged in 2018 and walked down the wedding aisle in May 2019.
“I learned you can’t buy love,” Burke previously told Us in an August 2025 cover story, adding that her decision to avoid dating is proof that she needs “to heal still in that sense.”
“I touch myself all the time,” Burke continued back in 2025 when asked if she missed being intimate with someone else. “It’s great. We are good to go. There’s no emotional baggage that comes with it.”
On Friday, Us asked Burke if she is still on her celibacy journey.
“Still going strong,” she said, adding that “just for my own self-respect and life for myself” her decision to be celibate has “absolutely” been a positive one.
“I think it’s power when it comes to that type of stuff,” she continued. “And I think it’s something that I needed my whole life, so giving it to myself now, there we go.”
As Burke continues to focus on herself, she maintains her Dancing With the Stars fandom despite leaving the reality competition series in November 2022 after 26 seasons.
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“I would love to see more creators join the show. I think that there’s a new definition when it comes to celebrity,” Burke told Us. “I think having people like mental health gurus come on. I would love to see Jay Shetty get jiggy with it. I think it’s important to mix it up. But they’re doing great. Whatever they’re doing, obviously is working.”
After Dancing With the Stars pro Val Chmerkovskiy exclusively told Us that he hopes to see “less” politicians compete on the show, Burke said she agreed.
“I think maybe it’s probably best not to involve politics,” she explained. “This is a show that’s a feel good show, and right now, I think it’s just very touchy, right? That’s all I want to say about it.”
