Delta Burke
Delta Burke Trivia
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Delta's autobiography entitled Delta Style: Eve Wasn't a Size 6 and Neither Am I became a best seller.
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Delta was a judge in The 2007 Miss America Pageant.
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In 2006, Delta appeared in a television commercial for Liberty Medical.
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In 2001, Delta was nominated for a TV Guide Award in the category of Actress of the Year in a New Series for her role on the show DAG.
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If Delta would have remained on with Designing Women, Suzanne would haved married Anthony.
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Designing Women's creators did not want to fire Delta in the first place, but was forced to by the network.
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Delta was fired from Designing Women because she gained weight and therefore did not fit the role of the vain Suzanne.
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Delta's favorite dessert is chocolate cake with pudding in the mix.
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Delta's favorite perfume is Magi Noir by Lancome.
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Delta has many pets including 7 dogs and 2 parrots.
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After Delta was fired from Designing Women, her relationship with Dixie Carter deteriorated. The two have since rekindled their friendship in recent years.
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In 2003, Delta made her Broadway debut as villainess Miss Mears in the musical comedy Thoroughly Modern Millie.
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She has a huge following the gay community.
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Delta was originally considered for the role of "Scarlett O'Hara" in the CBS miniseries Scarlett, but was deemed "too fat" for the role.
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Delta admits she still loves tiaras after all her years she spent doing pageants.
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Delta was proposed to by Gerald McRaney on their second date.
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Delta still keeps in touch with all of her Designing Women castmates.
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Delta's favorite episode she did on Designing Women is about her having a foster child.
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Delta's very first noteworthy TV role was on The Love Boat.
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She has become an advocate for plus-size people.
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Delta actually starred in the CBS series Filthy Rich with Dixie Carter before they starred together on Designing Women.
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In 1974, she represented Florida in the Miss America Pageant and ended up winning a talent scholarship. She used it to attend a two-year study program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
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In 1974, Delta graduated from Colonial High School in Orlando, Florida.
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Delta has suffered from chronic depression since her teens.
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Delta is a diabetic.
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Meet her husband when he guest starred on Designing Women as Suzanne's ex-husband.
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(March 2005) Starring on Broadway in Steel Magnolias (Truvy - the Dolly Parton role in the movie)
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Delta has been married to actor Gerald McRaney since 1989.
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Delta was nominated for an Emmy in 1990 and 1991 for her role as Suzanne Sugarbaker on Designing Women.
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Delta: There weren't many 1980s TV shows I didn't make an appearance on. I even made return engagements: I was on The Love Boat three times. Nine times out of ten, my character was an oversexed vamp. I changed in and out of an awful lot of nightgowns.
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Delta: (on her compulsive hoarding syndrome) At one time I had 27 storage units. I don't have a big enough house! My mom had it, it's my mother's fault. She saved the diaper I came home from the hospital in!
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Delta: If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap"
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