Brooke Burke Recalls 'Intimate Experience' on “DWTS ”as She Clarifies Derek Hough Affair Comments (Exclusive)

Burke admits that she had "chemistry" with Hough while competing on 'Dancing with the Stars' in 2008 but she was in a "faithful" relationship with David Charvet at the time

Brooke Burke is setting the record straight about what happened between her and Derek Hough during their victorious Dancing with the Stars partnership.

In PEOPLE's exclusive sneak peek at Monday’s episode of Tamron Hall, the 52-year-old television personality clarifies her remarks about how she would have considered “a love affair” with the professional dancer had she not been in a committed relationship with David Charvet. (She married Charvet in 2011 and the couple split in 2018.)

Burke explains that she was referring to “the chemistry between pro and celebrity,” adding, “When you're on a show like that, you're dancing, you're breathing, you're in each other's arms. You're learning the dance, the rhythm, the struggle, the challenge, the triumph, the fear that you share when you step out onto that floor. It's an extremely intimate experience. Chemistry for sure.”

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“He's adorable. He's really like my little brother, saying I would have had an affair… I don’t know, maybe I was just chatting,” she continues. “We didn't — let me just set the record straight — and I was in a faithful marriage. But it's like that dance where you're just, you're so close and you're so connected and that intimacy, you can't fake that.”

The actress claimed the DWTS experience “is more than most people go through in a marriage.”

“You're sharing. You're fighting. You're competing, you're learning, you're failing at times,” she added. “You're trying to win, you're communicating, you're not communicating. You're fighting. You're laughing. You're crying, you're scared out of your mind. So it's all of these human emotions. To me, it was extremely sensual. Sensual, not sexual.”

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After her comments about Hough, Burke says she warned her fiancé Scott Rigsby, but he took it in stride.

“He's so cool and we have such strong boundaries. And I have those in my other marriage, which is why I feel so free to be honest,” she explains. “It wasn't that I wanted to or we could have or we should have. It was the reality and an adult conversation of that beautiful chemistry that happens and that's why some people fall in love. But with Scott I have to say, 'Sorry, baby, you're probably gonna read about this a lot tomorrow.'”

Burke believes chemistry is part of Dancing with the Stars, explaining, “I think when you're on the dance floor, the audience reads that, like you can't fake that. You're either gelling and you're connected and it's fun to watch and you're telling a love story, with your bodies out there in a competition show. That's what people respond to. And people do fall in love on that show. People have gotten married on that show.”

Burke adds she has no regrets about her comments, saying, “I'm comfortable communicating and I'm a grown up and I'm in a monogamous, faithful relationship.”

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Last week, Burke discussed her DWTS experience with Hough, 38, on pro alum Cheryl Burke’s podcast Sex, Lies and Spray Tans.

On the podcast, she recalled meeting Hough, saying, "I just thought he was so young and green and safe. I had no idea he would be such a powerful, badass choreographer."

Though initially the two weren't "gelling," a round of "valuable" couples' therapy arranged by producers led to Burke "crushing on Derek." She added, "Had I not been married... I would have actually hoped we would have had a love affair ... I don't think I've ever said that!"

"I would have had an affair with him," she shared. "But listen, let me tell you why: You are intertwined with someone's body when you're not a dancer. There is no way that I have ever been so connected — besides with a lover or a husband — than I was with Derek. And it's every single day. So for three months, you are in someone's arms."

"Why do you think people fall in love? You smell them, you feel them, you're breathing with them. It can be more intimate than making love in a bedroom — you're making love on a dance floor, you feel more connected," she went on. "If you have energy, you're doing this dance and you're in the rhythm, and then there's trust, then you're sharing fear, you're doing something you've never done. How many times do you go through an experience with someone where they're all you've got?"

She summed up that she'd only ever "had one experience with one person like that [outside the ballroom]. Life-changing."

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