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So You Think You Can Dance Australia Round-Up: Rhys Renovates The House That Jack Built

Australian Post Posted by Clem Bastow at 9:53 AM on April 22, 2008

Jack SYTYCD.jpgIt's the pointy end of So You Think You Can Dance Australia and that means we're close to finding out who is Australia's Favourite Dancer™, out of a choice of Jack, Rhys, Demi and Kate. We'd actually be pretty happy about any of those four winning, though the odds are on Jack, with Rhys steadily gaining in second place, and Demi and Kate coming third and fourth in the betting respectively.

Assuming SYTYCDAus is following the US model, we should be able to look forward to a 'greatest hits' package for the finale - the only problem is, we can't think of more than a handful of routines we'd care to see again.

Are we the only ones having this problem? As we draw to the close, what is your take on this inaugural season of the local version? Personally, we can't wait for - and hope Channel Ten bloody well show - the next round of "the real thing".

So You Think You Can Dance Round-Up: Melbourne Shuffle

Australian Post Posted by Clem Bastow at 3:19 PM on March 31, 2008

dance-logo.jpgOnce we'd recovered from hearing that the So You Think You Can Dance Australia kids were happy to shag anything with a pulse, and then suffered the indignity of having respected choreographers calling their high-stepping "hideous", we kind of forgot about the show. Its momentum wasn't exactly captivating and we'd begun to realise that there was about as much personality in its combined cast as there is in fat-free granola.

So, along those lines, comes the scintillating news that Melbournites Rhys and Demi took a well-earned break this week just past. And, er, that's it:

They both let off steam at their favourite nightspots.

Rhys Bobridge dropped into Prahran's the Market, where he works as a drag queen, while Demi Sorono visited South Melbourne club Seven and tried a few of her moves.

"I wasn't up on a podium or anything but I busted out a few freestyle moves and I got a bit of a circle around me watching," she said. "It was pretty cool."

Bobridge also caught up with his boyfriend and said it was hard saying goodbye again and returning to the high pressure of being in the final 10.

Uh oh! Did you read that, sexuality-blind girls and excitable boys everywhere? Rhys is TAKEN!!

There goes whatever tenuous reason most people were using to watch the show. Now they'll have to, like, actually dance well and entertain the viewers, shock horror!

Confidential's Breathless 'Sytycd' Coverage Hampered By Laughable Knowledge Of Melbourne Drag History

Australian Post Posted by Clem Bastow at 9:10 AM on February 14, 2008

rhys_591x301.jpgNews Ltd's Confidential, in this instance its Melbourne-based Herald Sun incarnation, love to think of themselves as the all-seeing, all-knowing orifice oracle of entertainment gossip, and get particularly excited about themselves when they think they've got the scoop.

So it was that they breathlessly started going on about So You Think You Can Dance Australia contestant Rhys and his apparent double life as a drag performer:

Melbourne's Rhys Bobridge who made the cut on So You Can Think You Can Dance, has been slogging it out as a real-life Priscilla.

Bobridge, whose drag queen alias is Zowie Knox, has been working at Prahran's Market Hotel in Commercial Rd for seven years.

As well as doing drag, Bobridge, 26, was a regular dancer at the pub for its mid-morning shows.

Isn't that camp?!

What a pity, then, that Confidential haven't done a jot of research.

Zowie Knox is indeed a well-loved drag superstar and show producer who did the hard yards on the live circuit... in the mid-'90s.

Rhys' alter ego is the beautiful and glamorous Miss Regime Dettol, as we hinted rather heavily when we got word that he'd made it to the Top 20, and as anyone who knows anything about Melbourne's drag scene would be well aware.

As for describing Miss Dettol as a mere "Priscilla", those gossip folk better wash their mouths out with soap and learn a thing or two about how to talk to a lady.

Then again, those hilarious gays and their make-up and spangles - they're all the same, aren't they Confidential?