Tom DeLay’s Dancing With the Stars partner Cheryl Burke recently admitted she was a little nervous that the former politician was going to be a "grumpy old man." She was happy to learn otherwise.  [hammer or softy?] "He’s a really nice guy and he’s such a family man," Burke says. …

Apparently she’s a professional of sorts – has appeared in Maxim magazine and was born in 1984. DeLay announcement here.