Dancing Queens: Who is Colette Marotto?
Get ready to hit the dance floor, as the first season of Bravo’s new series, Dancing Queens is set to premiere on Tuesday, May 9.
The show revolves around six ballroom dancers as they face off against one another in competitions across the country.
Colette Marotto is one of them.
Colette is a Reality TV star as well as a physical therapist currently working at her own company, Wheels on the Bus Pediatric Therapy, Inc. She is from Scottsdale, Arizona, United States.
Colette is yet to share her exact birthday but was born in 1974. She is 49 years old as of 2023.
However, she celebrates her son, Kelvin’s birthday on February 20 every year.
She was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, and currently resides in Laveen (31 minutes from Scottsdale).
Colette loves keeping her parents and siblings out of the limelight.
There is little to no information about her parents’ names, and also her siblings.
All we know is that she has a son named Kelvin.
Marotto attended the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 1992 and graduated with Bachelor’s in Biology.
Later, she went to St. Catherine University in 1997 and graduated with a Master’s in Physiotherapy.
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Colette is a therapist, who works on physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and habilitates children and adults born with developmental delay.
She started working as a physical therapist at Easter Seals Arizona in September 2000 and left it around 3 years later in September 2003.
Colette, while working in Easter Seals, started her own therapy company, Wheel on the Bus. She has been active in the company for two decades now.
Colette believes in working hard rather than taking shortcuts in life. So, she has been working as a therapist for more than two decades and still is continuing to do so.
According to US News Money, physical therapists earn $95,620 annually. However, in Arizona, they make $88,837 a year as per DPT USC.
As an owner of a physical therapy company, Colette might be earning around $100,000 a year. Her net worth is thus estimated at around $250,000.
Colette is a single mother to Kelvin, her son with special needs. A special needs child is a youth who has been determined to require specific necessities and special attention that other children do not.
Clinical diagnostic refers to individuals who require assistance that may be medical, mental, or psychological.
Whether she was married or not, Colette has never revealed anything about it.
In Dancing Queens, she had a pro dance partner, Kristijan Burazer, who left her to compete with Pooja. Colette has a new partner now, Oleksiy ‘Alex’ Pigotskyy, with whom she had to start from scratch.