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Two of the four So You Think You Can Dance finalists were hospitalized over the weekend for dehydration according to
People. Who those two are that has not been revealed.
“Two went in [Saturday] and so there was no more rehearsals, and today [Sunday] all the rehearsals were called off,” ballroom expert and SYTYCD judge Mary Murphy confirmed to PEOPLE at Fox’s 2008 Teen Choice Awards in L.A. on Sunday. “The kids are completely dehydrated – two of them. I’m sure they’re doing a lot of blood work to see if there’s anything else."
Murphy went on to explain that in all fairness, “the other two [dancers] could not rehearse as well, and so hopefully everybody is going to be in the same boat…hopefully everybody will be refreshed by having a full day off.”
Leading up to the finale, the dancers have been putting in 10 to 12 hour rehearsals a day, because “they want it so bad,” says Murphy, adding “so, they keep pushing themselves and pushing themselves and not letting anybody know that, ‘Hey, I’m running on empty,’ and then it catches up on them and then they collapse.”
A source from the show told People that the two dancers were doing better and were expected to rehearse today before they tape the final dance show of the season.
Hopefully all four will be OK for tonight's taping because it would suck to get this far and lose out at the end. What are they doing to the dancers this season? One had to drop out because of broken ribs and now two of them are hospitalized for dehydration.
UPDATE: It was the boys Twitch and Joshua who were rushed to the hospital according to Us Weekly. And the two men aren’t the only injured ones, Mary Murphy sprained her ankle yesterday at TC08.
“She tripped down a shortened stair a few inches from the Jonas Brothers as they were walking in front of the stage at the Gibson Amphitheater,†the source explains. “She was treated by medics, her ankle was wrapped, and she was wheeled out in a wheelchair as the show was ending.â€Â
Imagine how loud Mary Murphy must have screamed when she fell?
