So You Think You Can Dance Backstage dipper: Which Solo Was "Horrid"?

Tonight on So You Think You Can Dance we learned that while a extraordinary solo can save a dancer in danger, a totally terrible solo won't necessarily get you sent home if you have previously banked enough "star moments" and sex appeal in the minds of the jury.
We've got the scoop from behind the scenes at SYTYCD that reveals why a "very good" dancer went home in place of the dancer with one of the most unchoreographed and random solos in new memory...

Channing Cooke and Kevin Hunte were eliminated this week, despite a catastrophic solo by Karen Hauer and last week's comprehensive lecture from executive producer Nigel Lythgoe on how the performers always need to dance as if their lives depend on it.

So how bad was Karen? When we talked to judge Mary Murphy afterward, she was still reeling in reaction: "Karen's solo was unpleasant. I'm a ballroom dancer, and she's a ballroom dancer, and after that I shook my head and said, 'I'm not sure what she was doing just now! I didn't even recognize what that was.' " Nonetheless, the judges raved backstage about Karen's earlier star work, especially in her hip-hop with Kevin, and they decided to saved her. (Does anyone else suspect that last season's lack of a breakout personality has led the jury to perhaps slightly overemphasize star quality this season? Perhaps the judges' "producer" tendencies are showing a bit more than is severely smart?)

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Backstage at DWTS: Joanna Admits Her outrageous Elimination "Sucks"

That's gonna depart a mark.

In what can only be called the most jaw-dropping removal so far this season on Dancing With the Stars, Joanna Krupa (who Carrie Ann Inaba thought might win) was sent packing previous night.

We were backstage after the show and can tell you Joanna was emotion the sting.

"Being so close, it sucks not being capable to go to the finals," Joanna tells us. "But I guess it is what it is."

Still, part of her saw it coming. "It was a hard competition and I knew that tonight anything could happen, so I was ready for it."

Oh, and you won't consider who she and partner Derek Hough think may win…

They're all about supporting the girl who snatched the finals spot out from below them with her relentless underdog charm: Kelly Osbourne.

"We're absolutely proud of Kelly," Derek told us. "She's grown so much, you just can't assist but love her and root for her."

Derek and Joanna also hinted that they'll be doing much more than just sitting idly by in the viewers for a camera op after that week.

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Strictly Come Dancing's Tess Daly: the demonstrate must go on!

Daly has flaunted a stunning post-baby figure in a modeling crusade for La Senza's new collection. The Strictly Come Dancing presenter - whose co-presenter veteran Bruce Forsyth was missed Saturday's demonstrate with flu - is appearing in the crusade for the lingerie firm's festive season. The photographs will characteristic on billboards and in all 180 La Senza store windows across the country in the run up to Christmas. The 38-year-old, who is wedded to Radio One host Vernon Kay, gave birth to her daughter Amber in May this year, claims she doesn't do gyms or perspiring workouts. She attributes her weight loss to a busy way of life and a fast metabolism, telling Heat magazine : "I never sit down, I just don't stop - I can't keep in mind the last time I sat down in front of the TV and put my feet up." La Senza said that Tess's Steal The Show crusade, which features her in a showgirl setting with top hat and cane, aims to bring jointly the two sides of every woman - playful and fun, yet alluring and confident.

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Strictly Come Dancing: after Bruce Forsyth pulls exposed, who should step up?

Tess Daly takes in excess of presenting duties after Brucie is laid low with flu – but who should fill her shoes backstage?

Calamity has befallen Television Centre – Bruce Forsyth, the muscular of Strictly Come Dancing, the bulwark of the BBC, the leader of light activity, is off sick with flu. Which means Tess Daly, generally confined to backstage where she subjects the contestants to her own very extraordinary personal brand of interviewing, is stepping out on to the dance floor to present the main show.

So who is going to take her place backstage, to provide solace, congratulation and interrogation? I'm presuming it will be a man, so he can dance with Tess at the start of the show in the agonizing little skit that has become part of the weekly routine. So here are my suggestion (or fears) – let us know who you would put in Bruce's place:

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'Dancing With the Stars' outcome November 10: Aaron Carter and Karina Smirnoff out

Aaron Carter has zipped during his last quickstep.

The pop singer, who continually gushed about how much he loved being on "Dancing With the Stars," had his bubble burst after voters cast him out despite having earned on the whole higher scores from the judges than Kelly Osbourne, who made the semi-finals.

The other couples left to compete for the mirrored ball medal include Mya and Dmitry Chaplin, Donny Osmond and Kym Johnson, and Joanna Kruppa and Derek Hough.

Aaron had developed something of a father son connection with judge Len Goodman, who made what he called a first time report after Aaron was tossed.

Telling Aaron he'd grown so much over the course of the contest, Len told him, "If you were my son, I'd be so arrogant of you."

Aaron and partner Karina Smirnoff had frequently impressed the judging panel with their faster dances. Their 1990s version of the samba earned 9s from all three jury on Monday night as each pair did a Latin dance set in a different decade. "I thought you were striking it," Carrie Ann Inaba told the pair.

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Glenbard East alum moves on to 'Dancing With the Stars' semifinals show

He shed tears on the demonstrate and once fought for his spot with a dance-off, but Aaron Carter has performed his final dance on " Dancing With the Stars." The 21-year-old singer and his proficient partner, Karina Smirnoff, were eliminated from the hit ABC show Tuesday. That foliage Donny Osmond, reality star Kelly Osbourne, singer Mya and Joanna Krupa, an alum of Glenbard East High School in suburban Lombard, Illinois.

According to Krupa's "Dancing" bio, the model, who partners with Derek Hough on the show, was born in Poland but raised in Chicago. She "ultimately headed west to L.A. where her striking looks and diverse talents have made her one of the most sought-after models on the planet." Krupa will appear on the cover of Playboy's December issue, which hits newsstands November 13. She also appeared on the magazine's July 2005 cover.

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So You Think You Can Dance: Top 16 dancers Perform, Live Thoughts

It's time for the top 16 dancers to take the phase and it is lastly time for America to have a say in who will be crowned America's Favorite Dancer. In my opinion, that means the competition truly gets started tonight. You never know who America is going to love or hate and we'll finally have an inking about what couple has captured America's heart and claimed their dialing finger. Beyond lastly voting, I'm eagerly awaiting being completely wowed by a presentation tonight, because it just hasn't happened yet. (Then again, I half blame the stage.)

Watch along with me tonight as the top 16 take the stage, we're introduced to a bevy of fresh choreographers, a couple new dance styles, and we have a say in who dances for their lives tomorrow night. As always, you can go behind along with me right here and in 140 characters or less on BuddyTV's breathtaking So You Think You Can Dance Twitter.

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Groovy baby! Kelly Osbourne dances amazing Sixties jive in a psychedelic green wig

Style chameleon Kelly Osbourne has dyed her curls an array of colours in new years, but she's never risked green hair.

Appearing on American talent show Dancing With The Stars previous night, the actuality TV star tried out a neon lime-coloured wig.

The 25-year-old was dressed in a black and green ensemble for her Sixties-themed jive with expert partner Louis Van Amstel.

Stepping on to the phase in a black mini-dress with green collar and cuffs and matching green shoes, Kelly looked like an additional from Austin Powers as she moved to the sounds of River Deep, Mountain High by Ike and Tina Turner.

Combining conventional jive moves with popular Sixties dances, Kelly and Louis pretended to fight over a rag doll, one of the themes in the classic song.

Kelly admitted she in her constituent with the Sixties theme because she loved the decade and had learned moves from era during her pop profession.

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Dance ‘icon’ Ziya Azazi whirls on İstanbul phase

“I'm now listening to my heart, and I believe that it is telling the fact,” says Ziya Azazi, regarding both the praise and censure directed at his style of dancing.

The pioneering Turkish dancer of international acclaim, best known for his unique modern choreographies based on the whirling rituals of Sufi dervishes, is this year celebrating not one but three anniversaries: his 40th birthday, the 20th year of his dancing career and the 10th year since he first incorporated Sufi revolving into his choreography.

Azazi's tale begins in the south of Turkey, in Antakya, where he was born, then moves to İstanbul for his education and continues in Vienna. While studying engineering at İstanbul Technical University (İTÜ), Azazi was introduced to aerobics, which laid the foundation of his career in contemporary dance. Working with the İstanbul City Theater from 1990 to 1994 as a dancer and choreographer, Azazi went to Vienna in 1994 and worked with a variety of dance companies until 1999, when he began to research Sufi whirling and incorporating elements of the Sufi ritual into his choreographies.

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"Dancing with the Stars" star Slate Slimmed by Two After Double Elimination

(AP) Michael Irvin and Mark Dacascos have been booted from the ballroom dance.

The football player and TV celebrity were eliminated Tuesday from "Dancing with the Stars." Irvin failed to capture enough viewer votes to keep him in the competition, while Dacascos lost his spot for the period of a last-ditch dance-off.

Former Dallas Cowboys receiver Irwin finished his run on the hit ABC show with his uppermost score of the season: He earned 23 points out of 30 for his fox-trot with expert partner Anna Demidova on Monday's episode.

Judges' scores are combined with watcher votes to determine which contestants are eliminated each week.

"Last night was a excellent night, and to see the audience here standing up, it's their way of saying they be thankful for the hard work," Irwin said after learning his fate.

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So You Think You Can Dance Backstage Scoop: Why the "Stunned" jury Sent Bianca Home

It was a hard night for the tappers on So You Think You Can Dance. Both Bianca Revels and Phillip Attmore were sent home, but we caught up with the jury backstage and learned it didn't have to be that way.

In fact, Bianca's fate wasn't sealed until the last minutes of tonight's episode, when two judges outvoted the third and sent home Bianca, saving Noelle Marsh to dance a different day.

What made the dissimilarity? Here's what we learned...

what made the dissimilarity for fellow judges Adam Shankman and Mary Murphy? Adam told us, "I think Noelle's solo changed it, I think in our heads she was sort of on her way out and the alone changed it. I turned to them and said 'How could we possibly send her home after what we just saw?' I don't think it's inequitable to say that we were stunned."

Mary tells us, "Judge Nigel Lythgoe wanted to save Bianca, but it didn't go his way: "I didn't desire to lose two tappers tonight, but we decided it was Phillip [going home for the guys] near the beginning on. I think we were unanimous on that tonight, and then we had to decide on the girl. Neither one of [the bottom two girls] impressed us tonight in their duets. For me, Noelle was always a truly good dancer, but Bianca has grown, so my money goes on the one that's grown and that isn't just another contemporary dancer...but I was outvoted."

AndGoing in, with Noelle, I was thinking of taking her off the show, but after her solo I just thought to myself, There's no way, there's no way. She went up and down on both knees [even though she was lately injured], and I was like, Holy smokes. I think that was a real message to us: 'Don't even distantly think of taking me out. If you think I'm not gonna be able to handle it, I can handle it.' It was very imposing to me."

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Strictly Come Dancing: Watch all the performances from this weekend's demonstrate

This weekend’s Strictly Come Dancing saw Zoe Lucker get designated off the show, after she landed in the bottom two with previous favourite Ali Bastian. Len Goodman blasted the results as “ludicrous”, explaining that there were five couples who were inferior than Zoe and Ali in the programme. Just previous in the show, Len had told Zoe that she could be a shady horse in the final. But after the Bad Girls actress received the slightest public votes at the side of Ali, the judges sent her home.

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Footballers’ Wives luminary Zoe Lucker voted off Strictly Come Dancing

Footballers’ Wives star Zoe Lucker became the latest celebrity to leave Strictly Come Dancing after audience compulsory judges to make a “ludicrous” choice between two of their favourite couples.

Lucker was fifth on the jury’ scoreboard but was sent into the dance-off with third-placed Ali Bastian when audience’ votes were added.

Head judge Len Goodman was left with the deciding vote and said: “I know the viewers’ can do what they like and it’s a popularity contest but this is ludicrous. It’s nonsensical.

“There’s five couples that are inferior than these.”

Mr Goodman had prior told Lucker - who scored 32 for her lively samba - that she had the latent to challenge the show’s leading couples if she could contain her nerves.
Bruno Tonioli gave his vote to Bastian and her colleague Brian Fortuna but said neither pair should have been fighting to stay in the competition.

“It’s silly. Whoever we save it’s not fair on the other self,” he said.
Craig Revel Horwood also voted to save The Bill artist - who scored 33 for the paso doble - but recognized it a “heinous dilemma”.

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Jackson collaborators search for debt payments

LOS ANGELES -- Michael Jackson's collaborators on "Thriller" say they are due more than $2.3 million from the singer's domain.

George Folsey Jr., the maker of the iconic 14-minute "Thriller" video, filed a claim Thursday for more than $1 million he says he's allocated.

An legal representative for the video's director, John Landis, filed creditors claims against the singer's estate - also on Thursday - saying they are likely due more than $1.3 million. Landis and his company sued Jackson before his death, claiming the singer hadn't paid Landis his distribute of profits in recent years.

Landis also sued to discontinue Jackson from exploiting new "Thriller" projects, such as a Broadway demonstrate. Those cases are still pending.

Jackson's past manager, Leonard Rowe, also claimed Thursday the singer allocated him more than $300,000.

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So You Think You Can Dance: First Day You're In, and the Next Day You're Out

This actuality-contestant merry-go-round is dizzying. Can we get off?

Thanks to baseball playoffs wreaking havoc on Fox's schedule, So You Think You Can Dance is all assorted up this season. generally the two-hour competition episode would air on Tuesday, fans would vote overnight and an removal episode would air Wednesday, but until the World Series is done, contest and elimination happens on the same night, and there's no fan voting to save couples from elimination. The judges decide among themselves who's going home.

Here's what happened for the period of tonight's Top 20 dance competition, complete with pairings, dances and the identities of the two eliminees who got the full Cat Deeley valuable-darling treatment on the way out:

Philip & Channing performed a Jason Gilkison-choreographed jive that was able and full of cuteness, but a small stiff on the flips. Judge Adam Shankman said it was a "classy pairing," but judge Nigel Lythgoe wanted to see more chemistry between the two going promote.

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'So You Think You Can Dance' get together The Top 20

The new set on 'So You Think You Can Dance' looks wider, flashier, but a bit distract at first. Cat, Mary, Nigel, and Adam are all back, but new are the new crop of dancers. In a new move the first show isn't an elimination episode but a pre-season showcase to introduce the top 20 to the audience. This is a good idea: the die-hard audience will be able to have a look at each dancer in their element before the elimination episodes begin. Each dancer performs in their favorite style of dance just this once, and next time the pairs will be made and the random styles of dance will be assigned.

The show is opened by a Wade Robson collection number. With most Wade numbers, an exciting, interesting idea results in a badass and unforgettable routine for the show. The group number has a chic 1930s theme, reminiscent of the gang wars from West Side Story. The 20 are split into four groups that are showcased in segments. A few parts were less than coordinated, but being the first number with ALL the dancers, I'll let it slide. Some eight counts used big groups motions that looked like the wretched dance scene from She's All That done in the correct context - an actual dance showcase. There were no factual sore thumbs sticking out in the premier group number.

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So You Think You Can Dance Canada: The day later than

MONTREAL - “When I heard my name, I went into shock. I just collapsed. I had to strength myself to breathe,” Tara-Jean Popowich said yesterday.

The 20-year-old contemporary dancer from Lethbridge, Alta., was crowned Canada’s familiar dancer Sunday on So You Think You Can Dance Canada. Quebec ballroom dancer Vincent Desjardins, 20, was named runner-up.

“When I heard Tara-Jean’s name called, I was as happy as if it had been my name called,” Desjardins said from Toronto for the duration of The Gazette’s phone interviews yesterday with the final four contestants.

Popowich wins $100,000 and a latest car. Desjardins also wins a car. Luckily, they both have licences. In fact, “I was looking for a new car, so this has worked out well,” Desjardins said.

Popowich’s mother was in the audience Sunday. When they lastly had a moment collectively, it was “one big, happy, crying circle.”

Popowich’s dad left when she was 3 years old, and she hasn’t seen him since. Her mom raised her and her older brother as a single parent, driving one to hockey and the other to dance class. There wasn’t a lot of currency.

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GIBRALTAR DANCER CHAMPIONSHIPS JUDGING IN OSLO

Michael Prescott, President of the Gibraltar countrywide Dance Organisation and renowned international judge for the globe governing body I.D.O. has been selected as judge for the Norwegian National Dance Championships.

The Championships are being held in Oslo, Norway, this weekend and allow the GNDO to see and compare the standards of dance in each nation, especially when time comes to travel to Germany for the Olympics of Dance.

Michael has been an worldwide adjudicator since 1988 and has judged over 15 international competitions and festivals of dance.He is a founder member of the world governing body International Dance Organisation since 1981 and was awarded the prestigious IDO Golden Award in 2003. This has allowed him to gain a high standing as an international judge and be highly respected by all the IDO family from around the world.

Q&A with So You Think You Can Dance Canada's Top 4 winner

On Sunday, the champion of So You Think You Can Dance Canada's second season will be crowned, bringing an end to months of training, injuries and enthusiasm. It seems like the season only just started, but already the competition has been narrowed to the Top 4: Tara-Jean Popowich, Everett Smith, Jayme Rae Dailey and Vincent Desjardins. In between their demanding rehearsals, we caught up with the Top 4 dancers to find out how they think going into Sunday's finale

'So You Think You Can Dance's' Mia is send out

an additional Fox judge bites the dust -- this time, it's "So You Think You Can Dance's" Mia Michaels.

The visitor judge and Emmy-winning choreographer on the dance competition show has pulled a Paula Abdul by Tweeting her resignation.

"Thank U for 5 wonderful yrs . . . thanks SYTYCD and look forward to whats [sic] ahead for me . . . lookout world!!!!!" Michaels wrote, in a three-part message posted in all caps, on her hardly ever updated Twitter feed on Wednesday night.

She followed up the Tweets with a declaration on her Facebook page, adding that, "Today was my authorized resignation of the US show and look forward to what's ahead for me."

Michaels' resignation comes less than a week after she expressed lackluster feelings in excess of the past summer's fifth season of "SYTYCD."