Cheryl Burke isn't dancing around rumors about her and Gilles Marini.
The Dancing With the Stars competitor shut down speculation that she hooked up the married Sex and the City alum while he was her celebrity partner on season eight of the reality competition show.
"We had that thing without having that thing," Cheryl told Gilles when he guested on the April 14 episode of her Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans podcast. "Chemistry."
Admitting she was aware of the rumors circulating at the time that she had "jumped your bones," Cheryl went on to insist that anything romantic between the pair was "just not the case."
"Nothing has ever happened physically between us," the 39-year-old continued. "We were very close, intimate, like in that sense, like, we were great friends. We went through our ups and downs."
As for where the speculation originated from? Cheryl reiterated that her chemistry with Gilles—who shares two kids with wife of 26 years Carole Marini—was rare.
"You can't teach that," she said. "You either have it with someone or you don't, and it was hot."
And while her professional relationship with the Switched at Birth actor never turned into something more, Cheryl—who split with ex-husband Matthew Lawrence in September 2022 after three years of marriage—previously shared that she hasn't closed the door on the possibility of finding love in the future.
"I'm looking for someone who can really inspire me that makes me think that supports me and vice versa," she previously told E! News. "[Someone] that is his own person and I'm my own individual person but then we come together because we enjoy each other's company."
Keep reading to catch up on Dancing With the Stars romances that did happen off camera.