While American Idol changed up their judges and Dancing with the Stars changed up their co-host, So You Think You Can Dance is changing up the competition. Fox announced the changes yesterday and they are…
Instead of 20 dancers competing there will only be 10. Instead of a boy and a girl being eliminated each week, only one person will leave the competition. How will they do that then? Well this year the dancers will not be paired up with another contestant, but a past all-star contestant from the past 6 seasons. Yes our favorite dancers will be back dancing in their style with one of the contestants and they will be changing partners every week. Nigel Lythgoe also Tweeted this after the Fox Press release went out, “Only the competitors will be judged not the “All-Stars.”. America votes for their favorite and one of the bottom three dancers will go home.” I wonder if that means we still get to vote the dancer off or the Judges will be deciding from the bottom three. I hope it is still out choice because they have made a lot of mistakes eliminating the Top 20 down to the Top 10 in seasons past. But you know Nigel, he loves himself and thinks he knows it all.
I am curious how the changes will play out, I just wish they got rid of the three judges while they were at it. Nigel hits on all the girls that are a 1/3 of his age that is when he is not trying not be Simon Cowell. Mary just screams or says you earned a ticket on the hot tamale train. And All Adam Shankman is does is kiss everyone’s a$$ and tell them how he will use them in his next movie. Cat Deeley is the only thing that doesn’t need to be changed on the show. What do you think of the changes?
Nigel Lythgoe is dating Mick Jagger’s ex-wife Jerry Hall according to The Sun.
A friend said: “Jerry and Nigel have been pals for a long time. But it’s blossomed into something much more recently.
“They kept bumping into each other at various social functions around London over the last year and always ended up making a beeline for each other. One thing led to another and they started dating in October.
“Both Jerry and Nigel have been unattached for some time.
“Neither of them were looking for love, but it found them anyway. They’re a great couple and gloriously happy.”
Jerry Hall could do better than Nigel, but I guess after Mick Jagger’s huge mouth she is one of the very few women who could actually tolerate looking at Nigel’s capped teeth while they are having sex. Imagine his orgasm face with those teeth? So ewwwwww.
So You Think You Can Dance’s Cat Deeley did an interview with Radio Times and according to IOL when she was talking about the other hosts in America she kind of dissed them.
“It’s a lot easier to get Americans to scream and shout and dance and clap. In Britain, it’s almost as if we’re ashamed of having ambition and drive.â€
The presenter, who grew up in Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, said: “When I watch shows in America, I feel that some of the hosts are a little ’Stepford’ – in the nicest possible way.
“It feels as if they’re more worried if the light is in the right place and they’re standing right than they are about communicating with an audience.
“The fundamental part of my job is to communicate with an audience in a very real way. I think I’m maybe a bit ’realer’ than typical American hosts.â€
Deeley said of working in the US: “As much as you hear that you have to be size zero, you have to be Botoxed and have your lips and boobs done, no-one has ever said to me ’Fix your nose’ or ’Get big boobs’.
“I’m comfortable in my own skin and I think that helps enormously.â€
Deeley said of her life in LA: “I can host a show, then just hours later be riding my horse, and no one bothers me because Tom Cruise and Will Smith live down the road and are much more interesting.
“When I land in LA, it feels like LA, but when I land in London, and you see the Thames and St Paul’s on the plane’s final approach, it feels like home.â€
I have to admit after reading what she said, I kind of lost some respect for her. While I agree some of the hosts seem a little Stepford as she put it, I am wondering if she said what she said because she is bitter that the Emmys have yet to nominate for best Reality Show host?
Shane Sparks who is/was a choreographer on Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance and a Judge on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew was arrested on 9 counts of alleged child molestation according to TMZ. The charges go back to 1994 and depending if you read his IMDB or the court papers will determine whther he was either 20 or 25 at the time of the alleged crime. According to court papers acquired by TMZ, “The lewd acts include oral copulation and other acts “with the intent of arousing, appealing to, and gratifying the lust, passions, and sexual desires of the defendant, who was at least 10 years older than [the victim].”” The victim was under 14 at the time of the alleged crime according to court papers, but no age was specified. So gross if it is true.
Sparks is currently be held on $590,000 bail.
No word if he will continue on America’s Best Dance Crew that will be back in January or on So You Think You Can Dance that had its season finale on Wednesday.
Sparks is the second choreographer from SYTYCD to be arrested in the last year, Alex Da Silva was arrested for alleged rape. Who knew Fox really needed to do background checks on their choreographers?
via Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Before Nigel Lythgoe was judging dancers on So You Think You Can Dance, he was a dancer himself with Young Generation. What can you say about the 20 year old’s dancing in that 1969 performance, but wow.
BTW here is a bonus clip of him dancing and singing with Young Generation, but not sure how much of a bonus it is…
