Columbus Short

Columbus Keith Short Jr. is a choreographer, singer, and actor of America. Columbus was born in the Kansas City of Missouri. He describes his family as ‘musicial.’ Janette- his mother owns a talent management company. He relocated when he was five years old to Los Angeles. Soon after that, he started working in a youth theatre. He did his schooling from Marcos De Niza High School in Arizona, El Segundo High School and the Orange County High School of Arts. Then, in senior year in high school, he was offered two months early graduation and joined the Stomp’s Broadway (travelling production) tour. He has two siblings- John and Chris. From the age of three, Columbus started impersonating relatives, dancing and putting on a show to entertain and make people laugh. This quality of Columbus made everyone feel his ability to steal the spotlight. Columbus, after moving to Los Angeles, got work in television commercials of ‘Mountain Dew’, ‘Pizza Hut’, ‘Denny’s Restaurant’ and ‘Nike.’ He was paid quite well for these advertisements. He said, “Money drove me early, and artistic quality drives me now”. In 2004, he bagged a role of background dancer for Britney Spears Britney Jean Spears or Britney Spears is an Americ >> Read More... in her Onyx Hotel Tour. After spending two weeks with the megastar (Britney Spears), Columbus was upgraded from background dancer to the designation of choreographer and creative director. There were reported rumours of the two (Columbus Short and Britney Spears) being in a relationship, but Columbus denied them. Their break-up (as according to the rumours) was the reason for their professional split.

But soon afterwards, he landed in the film industry of Hollywood. In the same year (2004), he starred in the Chris Strokes’s “You Got Served” as a street dancer. The next year (2005), Columbus was seen as a soldier in “War of the Worlds” movie directed by Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg is an American producer, director >> Read More... . Subsequently, he made appearances on Television shows like ER (as Loose), Judging Amy (as Thomas McNab), That’s So Raven (as Trey), Studio 60 on the Sunset Trip (as Darius Hawthrone) and Scandal (as lawyer Harrison Wright). He also starred in many motion pictures like Save the Last Dance 2, Accepted, Quarantine, Stomp the Yard- Part 1 and 2, This Christmas, Whiteout, Cadillac Records, Armored, The Losers Click to look into! >> Read More... , and Death at a Funeral. His recent works include The Girl Is in Trouble, Mr. Right, and Lucky Girl. Columbus is right now shooting for the Preston A. Whitmore’s True to the Game. The American Drama is the adaptation of Teri Woods’s novel which goes by the same name. Columbus won the award for Best Ensemble in 2008 and Outstanding Supporting Actor (in a Motion Picture) in 2009. He got married to Brandi Short and had a son from the marriage, but they separated in the year 2003. Later, he confessed that the reason for the breakdown of his marriage was his close relationship with Britney Spears. Then, he got married to Tanee McCall- dancer in 2005.

They got divorced in 2013 following the domestic violence charges against Columbus. Reportedly, Columbus held a knife to Tanee’s throat and threatened to kill her for cheating on him. Columbus has a daughter Ayala from Tanee. Following this controversy, Columbus was let go from the Scandal TV series. In 2015, Karrie Steffans claimed that she legally married Columbus Short. According to the recent news, Karrie Steffans alleged that Short has cheated on her.