So You Think You Can Dance judge Nigel Lythgoe is currently auditioning for season seven of So You Think You Can Dance and has warned fans of the show that he is planning big format changes this year.
Speaking to The New York Post the former Pop Idol judge said:
So You Think You Can Dance finalists Lizzie Gough and Tommy Franzén have signed up to appear in the world premiere of hip-hop show Blaze, which opens on March 11.
Writing on his new official website, Swedish dancer Franzén said: “There is one big very exciting thing coming up soon and that is the world premiere of a new hip-hop show called Blaze, which both me and Lizzie Gough will be starring in.
So You Think You Can Dance winner Charlie Bruce has admitted that she would rather be a singer than a dancer. Charlie scooped the title from Tommy Franzen and Lizzie Gough on Saturday night, winning £100,000 and the chance to dance on the final of the American version of the show. However, she has now admitted that she would be more keen to land some singing roles than a purely dance based one.
Speaking to The Sun she said: “I’ve been doing it since I was ten and it’s something I really want to do professionally.
So You Think You Can Dance Nigel Lythgoe has become the second top BBC star to be struck down with flu this week.
Jonathan Ross had to be replaced on his Radio Two show last Friday after catching swine flu and Nigel has canceled all his meetings this week after contracting the illness.
Former X Factor winner Leona Lewis is set to take perform on BBC One’s So You Think You Can Dance
Leona will be performing her new song I Got You, and completes the stellar line-up of musical acts who have appeared throughout So You Think You Can Dance: Alexandra Burke, JLS, Mika, Lemar and – for the grand final on 13 February – Robbie Williams.
Former Take That star Robbie Williams has agreed to make an appearance on BBC’s ‘So You Think You Can Dance.’
Let’s hope it goes better than his last two performances on ITV’s X Factor. The first one saw him get stuck behind a stage door and the second saw him fluff his lines during a duet with finalist Olly Murs.
So You Think You Can Dance presenter Cat Deeley has admitted that she won’t rule out plastic surgery in the future.
In an interview with OK, Cat admitted: “I don’t know. So far I’ve been lucky. I’ve got quite nice skin and I’m ageing well − touch wood! Ask me in 30 years, and I may say something totally different.
Last week saw the first of BBC’s So You Think You Can Dance live shows and what a dance spectacular it was. Almost 7 million people tuned in to see Anabel and Chris getting sent home, but if you missed it then check out our recap above.
So You Think You Can Dance boss Nigel Lythgoe, has admitted that he is much more interested in contestants talent than in their back stories.
One of the things that stood out about SYTYCD’s initial audition show this year, was the distinct lack of dead parents, ill pets and learning difficulties. In an interview with Unreality TV, Nigel explained why he didn’t take the X Factor route and focus heavily on hopefuls sob stories.
The 60 year old said:
Nigel Lythgoe is in the process of bringing his reality-dance juggernaut, So You Think You Can Dance, from America to the UK. Best known on these shores as the first ‘mean’ Pop Idol judge, Lythgoe went on to produce the enormously popular American Idol (you might have heard of it?) and created SYTYCD in response to the rising dance phenomenon.
I managed to pin Nigel down for a far too quick chat at the end of last week, and we chatted about the show and just how hard it is to carve a career in the dance industry. He also gives us a great insight into what SYTYCD can do for a dancer’s career…
Gerard: So You Think You Can Dance is quite a new series to us in the UK, but you’ve had 6 series’ of the show in America and sold the format on to various other countries around the world. Why did it take so long for SYTYCD to come to the UK?
Nigel: Well, I think the BBC were attempting their own shows, because they did Dance X and Strictly Dance Fever and they also were successful with Strictly Come Dancing, so I think they may have felt that “Well, we’ve got a dancing show, and we’ve failed with the more modern versions we’ve tried to do.” With ITV, they’ve got three shows where viewers call in, which is X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent and Dancing On Ice. So, I figure everyone thought “Well we don’t need it.”
Gerard: Was the BBC the only choice for you?
Nigel: No, I’d have been very happy to put So You Think You Can Dance on any television station here – there’s no guarantee of success with any programme that you do. But I would have thought that with the viewing figures we were getting in America and the success of it, like most countries around the world, they would have wanted it.
Certainly, when it went to Australia, it became the number one show there and won their version of the television awards. In Canada it was huge. It’s in France, it’s in the Ukraine, its in about 17 other countries around the world and successful in every one of them.
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