There are “no exhausting emotions” between Ian Ziering and his former Dancing with the Stars companion Cheryl Burke. After the professional dancer beforehand mentioned she’d quite “slit” her wrists than work with him once more, she revealed to The New York Post that she has since apologized to the Beverly Hills, 90210 actor by way of e mail.
The duo made it pretty far within the dancing competitors after they had been paired collectively again in 2007. In truth, they acquired all the way in which to the ultimate 4 earlier than getting eradicated.
However, issues acquired messy when Burke named Ziering as her “least favourite” superstar dance companion and made the controversial declare that she’d “quite slit my wrists” than dance with him once more whereas showing on a podcast in 2016.
“I really apologized to him,” she informed NYP whereas selling her new podcast Sex, Lies and Spray Tans. “I despatched an e mail like a few years in the past after I did a YouTube. I feel it was proper after the pandemic or towards the tip of it. And I did.”
She added, “I simply wished to publicly apologize. But earlier than I publicly apologized, I wished to only do it personally. And he responded. It was brief and candy, however I feel there was loads to debate.”
According to Burke, who introduced final 12 months that she was leaving DWTS after 26 seasons, she’s a “totally different” particular person than she was again in Season 4 of the hit present.
“I’ve grown loads and I completely, you understand, I’m taking accountability for my actions,” she mentioned. “And I knew I do know it was improper what I mentioned, and I didn’t want any exhausting emotions then or now.”
This isn’t the primary time Burke has spoken out in regards to the adverse feedback she made about Ziering, who famously performed Steve Sanders by way of all 10 seasons of 90210. In April 2021, she publicly apologized to the actor on her Pretty Messed Up podcast.
“The one factor I really remorse and wish to make amends with is Ian Ziering,” she mentioned. “I used to be fully out of line a number of years in the past, and I did a podcast the place they had been asking me who my favourite companion was and who did I hate probably the most. And I answered, ‘Ian Ziering,’ and I mentioned one thing alongside the traces of ‘I’d quite slit my wrists than dance with Ian Ziering once more.’”
She continued, “I really am so sorry for being so thoughtless and simply speaking attempting to get a response and placing him as my punching bag actually. I took it to that subsequent degree of nastiness. I used to be so nasty. And I’m right here to publicly apologize to Ian and his household. I misplaced a number of respect for myself. It haunts me until today.”
