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Brooke Burke<\/a> is providing some clarity to her <\/span>controversial comments surrounding a potential affair<\/a> with her former\u00a0<\/span>Dancing With the Stars<\/em><\/a> partner,\u00a0<\/span>Derek Hough<\/a>, as well as the reaction that her fianc\u00e9,\u00a0Scott Rigsby, had to her statements.<\/span><\/p>\n Sitting down with host Tamron Hall on her eponymous show, Burke, 50, said that she was taken aback by the reaction to the comments, in which she said she was not only \u201ccrushing\u201d on Hough, but that she was tempted to have a \u201clove affair\u201d with the dancer, 38.<\/span><\/p>\n “Honestly, it kind of blew me away too because it was headline after headline after headline,” Burke told Hall on Monday\u2019s episode, trying to explain her mindset at the time when she shared her now-viral statement about Hough. “What I was talking about is the chemistry between pro and celebrity — when you’re on a show like that, you’re dancing, you’re breathing, you’re in each other’s arms.”<\/span><\/p>\n “You’re learning the dance, the rhythm, the struggle, the challenge, the triumph, the fear that you share when you step on down to that floor. It’s an extremely intimate experience.” Burke also answered Hall\u2019s questions about how her fianc\u00e9 reacted to the widely circulated story, sharing that he was “so fine” and understanding about what she said.<\/span><\/p>\n “You know he\u2019s so cool and we have such strong boundaries — and I had those in my other marriage — which is why I feel so free to be honest,” Burke said. In the interview from early October, Burke joked that she was “crushing on Derek, for sure\u201d while they competed together in 2008 on the show.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHad I not been married,” Brooke said in the previous interview, “I would have actually hoped we would have had a love affair.”<\/span><\/p>\n Talking with Hall, however, the TV personality said that it wasn\u2019t that she “wanted” to have an affair with Hough, but that she was trying to explain the chemistry that happens behind the scenes on the show.<\/span><\/p>\n “It wasn\u2019t that I wanted to [have an affair], or we could\u2019ve, or we should\u2019ve, it was the reality in an adult conversation of that beautiful chemistry that happens,\u201d Burke said. “And that\u2019s why some people fall in love, but with Scott, I had to say, \u2018Sorry baby, but you\u2019re probably going to read about this a lot tomorrow,\u2019 but he\u2019s so fine.”<\/span><\/p>\n