'DWTS' : Cody Rigsby Wishes He Could've Danced with a Sub, Cheryl Burke Talks What's Next

On a new episode of Burke’sPretty Messed Uppodcast, the pair recounted their experience being shut out of the ballroom this week due to Burke, 37, testing positive for abreakthrough case of COVID-19.

After she began to feel “strange” last Friday, Burke — who is fully vaccinated — said she suspected “there was something off for sure.” The pro dancer then got tested and broke the news of her diagnosis with fans on Sunday.

The Peloton star continued, “So I woke up to that paragraph thinking that you had like, broken up with me, to be honest. Then I read all of it and I’m like, ‘Oh wow, okay, that’s a lot.’ … I was just worried about you, because I’ve been through COVID. It sucks. I remember times when I had COVID. I was crying on FaceTime with my boyfriend, obviously, this was [in] a pre-vaccinated world.”

“Do I wish that instead I got to perform with a sub instead of our rehearsal footage? Yes, of course,” he continued. “We had worked on it, you had worked on it with me. I took all those notes that you had given me, came to the hotel room, mentally went through it. I was running through it on Sunday because I didn’t know what was going to happen, and there were all these little details and textures that I wanted to really perform. And how fierce was our costume? It was like, this fierce black floral print and I was so excited for it.”

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“[It could] be me last-minute showing up on Monday morning and being like, ‘Okay let’s do this without any practice.’ Meaning that he’s going to have to train with another professional dancer and I’m going to be there via Zoom,” Burke said. “He’s going to be going back to New York, so there are a lot of moving parts.”

Fellow season 30 contestantAmanda Kloots, who was also a guest on Burke’s podcast, said she and partner Alan Bersten will be dancing to Spears' “Circus” for week 3.

Dancing with the Starsairs Mondays (8 p.m. ET) on ABC.

Breakthrough cases— COVID-19 infections that occur in people who have been fully vaccinated against the virus — are rare, but possible and expected, as the vaccines are not 100% effective in preventing infections. Still, vaccinated people who test positive will likely be asymptomatic or experience a far milder illness than if they were not vaccinated. The majority of deaths from COVID-19 — around 98 to 99% —are in unvaccinated people.

source: people.com