Cheryl Burke Recalls Teaching Charlie Sheen to Dance for ‘One Day’ Before Realizing His DWTS Casting Was a ‘Hard No’

Cheryl Burke looks back on her only dance lesson with Charlie Sheen.

In the latest episode of her podcast Sex, lies and spray tanningthe professional dancer, 39, revealed that she taught Two and a half Men star, 58, made some moves when considering the competition Dancing with the stars.

Burke surprised her guest Denise Richards, who is Sheen’s ex-wife, by admitting: “Fun fact: I danced with Charlie for a day.”

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Burke recalled being asked by the show’s casting director Deena Katz to coach a potential celebrity contestant.

“She said, ‘Look, we’ve got somebody who’s a big name and his team wants you to coach him,'” Burke explained. “I said, ‘Are you sure?’ Because if I’m trying to convince someone to do a show, I might not be that person. Because I hate lying. I just don’t want to lie [about] what is the process.”

The TV personality admitted that the show is a big undertaking, explaining: “It’s beautiful, but it’s a lot of bloody work. I won’t even deny it. There’s a lot of press, there’s a lot of interviews.”

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Burke recalled meeting Sheen in Dancing with the stars rehearsal studio.

“I taught him a few steps,” she said of the star, who struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. “I’ve been sober now for almost six years and I just had a lot of compassion for him. He seemed so cool. We had a lot of fun.”

However, she recalled how Sheen “asked me questions” about the intensity of the show, adding: “He asked me, ‘How many interviews do we have to do? Do we have to go do the press?’ And I told him: ‘Yes, we have.’ We will do GMA. As we will do Good morning America.”

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Burke revealed that Sheen was skeptical of his ability to perform on the show, saying, “He immediately judged himself, he said, ‘I’m bad at this.’ I said, ‘No, this is just the first few steps.’ I taught him a waltz or something. We talked more than we danced, to be honest.”

She still believed Sheen could be a “great candidate” for the ABC dance competition, but Richards, 53, said he would be a hard sell.

“He doesn’t like to exercise,” she said. “There’s a lot of physical activity with dancing… It would be a big challenge for him and something he should do, but he doesn’t like to sweat.”

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Burke remembers Sheen as “really sweet and good and humble,” adding, “He was grateful. But I knew as soon as we finished that it was probably going to be a hard no.”

Sheen has previously spoken about being offered the chance to join DWTS. “I was very flattered by ABC and their offer,” Sheen said Us Weekly in 2019. “But at the end of the day, I have two left feet and I just can’t dance.”

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