Paula Abdul
The empty chair will remain for now.
While she finds Nigel Lythgoe's invite to guest-judge So You Think You Can Dance "intriguing," Paula Abdul says she's still undecided about taking him up on the offer.
"I haven't made ...
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Nigel Lythgoe and Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul still has a judge's chair with her name on it — on So You Think You Can Dance.
So You Think You Can Dance Top 20 finalist leaves due to illness
Keeping true to his word that he would consider having Abdul as a guest judge on Dance, Nigel Lythgoe extended an open invitation and an empty chair to Abdul to join him, Mary Murphy and Adam Shankman on the panel on Monday's "Meet the Top 20" episode.
"I've asked somebody to come along and be a guest judge ...
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Billy Bell and Brandon Dumlao
Top 20 finalist Billy Bell has left So You Think You Can Dance because of a health problem, Fox announced Monday.
Hip-hop dancer Brandon Dumlao is scheduled to replace him.
Bell, a 19-year-old contemporary dancer from Palm Beach, Fla., made new permanent judge Adam Shankman cry during Las Vegas auditions. A Fox rep declined to offer specifics about Bell's health.
Mia Michaels leaving So You Think You Can Dance
"We are disappointed that Billy cannot continue dancing in the competition on the advice of his doctor and wish him a speedy recovery," executive producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe said in a statement...
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Mia Michaels
So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Mia Michaels is stepping off.
Michaels, following in Paula Abdul's footsteps, first tweeted the news of her departure Wednesday night. She wrote that she had...
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So You Think You Can Dance
Fox released two photos Thursday that purport to debunk the So You Think You Can Dance flashing rumors once and for all.
On Tuesday's episode, which covered auditions in Atlanta, an unnamed female contestant appeared to accidentally flash her...
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Nigel Lythgoe
One So You Think You Can Dance contestant appeared to show that she has the naked ambition required to succeed — literally.
On Tuesday's Atlanta audition episode, Contestant No. 22036 fell to the floor in excitement after getting the nod from the judges and seemed to accidentally gave viewers a peek at her lady business. The contestant was shown only in a montage and was not identified by name, but the potentially offensive clip was not blurred or edited in any way.
Check out photos from So You Think You Can Dance
Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe...
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Mary Murphy
Fall means the start of a new TV season and for the first time ever, the start of a new season of So You Think You Can Dance. Just five weeks after wrapping up Season 5, Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy & Co. are back Wednesday (8/7c, Fox) in search of Jeanine Mason's successor. "I think it's good for our fans that absolutely go through withdrawal and write me by the thousands: "Oh, I can't believe it's over! I can't wait 'til next summer,'" Murphy tells TVGuide.com. "So it's for those fans we're back and hopefully we'll pick up some new fans." And perhaps a new judge too in Paula Abdul? Get the latest from Murphy and see which familiar face will return.
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Paula Abdul
What happens in Vegas will soon be Paula Abdul.
The former American Idol judge is working out the kinks for her own show in Las Vegas, she tells Access Hollywood.
"That will be more... really announced later, when everything's worked [out]," she says...
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Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul made the decision not to return to American Idol, says Fox entertainment chairman Peter Rice.
"We very much wanted her to return," Rice said during a Fox executive session at the fall TV previews Thursday. "We made an offer that we feel is very fair to Paula, it was a substantial raise, and Paula has decided not to return."
But is she already interviewing for a new job?
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Paula Abdul, Nigel Lythgoe
So You Think You Can Dance will "certainly" invite Paula Abdul to the show's finale, judge and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe exclusively told TVGuide.com Wednesday. The former American Idol producer has wanted Abdul on Dance for years, and her sudden departure from Idol on Tuesday leaves her "no excuse" not to appear, he said. (Abdul's rep didn't return a call for comment.) Talking and walking through the Kodak Theatre during rehearsals for Dance, Lythgoe didn't reveal what's to come on Wednesday and Thursday's two-part Dance finale. But we did catch a bouncy, rollicking Slumdog Millionaire-inspired number we loved.
Read the full Q&A after the jump.
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