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Small Screen
Fox Rains On The SYTYCD On-Air Vagina Parade
6:34AM Brian Moylan | Looks like Rupert Murdoch isn’t going to have to open up his gargantuan wallet to pay off the FCC because of a So You Think You Can Dance vagina slip. Why? Well, there was no vagina. More »
Small Screen
SYTYCD Tour Is Like Watching TV With 20,000 Strangers
8:10AM Brian Moylan | Last night I ventured all the way out to Newark, New Jersey to catch the live version of So You Think You Can Dance. It is simultaneously worse than you would expect and more awesome than you could hope for. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Did Katie Holmes Perform On SYTYCD To Arouse Tom Cruise?
9:30PM the cajun boy | Katie Holmes appears on So You Think You Can Dance (Video!), Gerard Butler is getting fat, Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler reunite, Gwyneth Paltrow cooks a chicken, Avril Lavigne parties really hard and Gwen Stefani looks pretty damn good. More »
Small Screen
If Paula Abdul Wants A Job, She Should Learn From Mary Murphy
5:06AM Brian Moylan | It’s no secret that Paula Abdul’s position on the judging panel of American Idol is as tenuous as her grasp on reality. Where should she turn for inspiration? Try So You Think You Can Dance’s resident loon, Mary Murphy. More »
People
1:27PM Jess McGuire | It would be terrible of me to forget to mention on Defamer Australia the fact that a So You Think You Can Dance? contestant has been swept up in a sex scandal, if by sex you mean “vaguely racy pictures taken by the good folks at Zoo Weekly”. Which saucy jiving miss posed with her knockers out for a lads mag? Why, it’s self-professed angry cheerleader Penny Higgs!
Topless photos have emerged of So You Think You Can Dance favourite Penny Higgs. Producers of the series were shocked to learn Zoo Weekly magazine was set to publish revealing snaps of the contestant, one of which shows Higgs on all fours with nothing but bikini bottoms on.
The folks at So You Think You Can Dance are cool with it all, though. Really. More »
So You Think You Can Get Your Cans Out?
1:27PM Jess McGuire | It would be terrible of me to forget to mention on Defamer Australia the fact that a So You Think You Can Dance? contestant has been swept up in a sex scandal, if by sex you mean “vaguely racy pictures taken by the good folks at Zoo Weekly”. Which saucy jiving miss posed with her knockers out for a lads mag? Why, it’s self-professed angry cheerleader Penny Higgs!
Topless photos have emerged of So You Think You Can Dance favourite Penny Higgs. Producers of the series were shocked to learn Zoo Weekly magazine was set to publish revealing snaps of the contestant, one of which shows Higgs on all fours with nothing but bikini bottoms on.
The folks at So You Think You Can Dance are cool with it all, though. Really. More » 
Blind Item: Which Assistant-Dating Dance Show ‘Staffer’ Wants You to Watch His/Her Peacock?
4:45AM STV | An eagle-eyed, Craigslist-scavenging informant today points us to a compelling career opportunity for the ambitious dreamer in you: A “high-ranking staffer on a hit dance reality show” is in dire need of a new assistant after the last one apparently agreed to assist him (or her, we suppose) full-time in bed: More »
Fox’s Reality Sweatshop ‘Dance’ Puts Two In Hospital
7:05AM Seth | Celebrity Hospitalization Week continues here at Defamer with some distressing news from the sweat-soaked-leotard world of So You Think You Can Dance. No sooner did we note that Fox had picked up another season of the series—a reality competition seeking America’s Top Krumping Ballroom Cha Cha Champion—comes news that two of the final four contestants were hospitalized for failing to keep up with the grueling demands of the show’s whip-cracking, belegwarmered creator, Nigel Lythgoe. From People.com: More »So You Think You Can Dance Australia Contestants Spotted, Judged, At Airport
5:22PM Clem Bastow | Defamer Australia just received an excited text from one of our many moles (not in that way), who was waiting for a flight in Sydney. She was seated next to the Australian So You Think You Can Dance finalists and can confirm the following details:
One curly-haired blonde girl, three Idol-style ‘ethnics’; one wearing pork-pie hat, all with ‘fro.
Names include Mac, Maddie and Steph. Maddie went shopping and made Steph cry because she nearly missed flight.
All tired, all making jokes; ‘So you think you can sleep’.
So there you have it! Remember those names, they’re gonna live forever etc.
Come next year you’ll just be gagging for a bit of Maddie, Mac and Steph action. As we can see from their HILARIOUS jokes, they’re obviously going to be totally memorable and lovable, and sure to parlay their SYTYCD appearances into career longevity and respect. More » 
Our Worst Fears Are Realised; Next Up: Pizza Shapes To Be Discontinued, Comet Set To Destroy Earth, Etc
2:07PM Clem Bastow | We told you Natalie “Greedy Use Of Consonants” Bassingthwaighte was in the running to host the Australian version of So You Think You Can Dance, well, turns out she’s snared the gig.
Read on while we stroke our double-barrel and mutter “soon, soon…” have a little sook.
As an accomplished actress, rock-chick and musical theatre performer, Bassingthwaighte is perfectly poised to host the anticipated series – one of Ten’s biggest offerings for 2008.
Joined by judging panel Bonnie Lythgoe, events guru and choreographer Jason Coleman and dance talents Matt Lee, Bassingthwaighte kicked off the show’s national auditions in Adelaide yesterday ahead of grooving into Sydney on November 3 and 4.
The very thought of Natalie “grooving” into anywhere is enough to make us seethe with rage.
All we can hope for now is for Rhonda “Rooter” Burchmore to make as many appearances in the guest judges’ seat as humanly possible, before whipping off her suit to reveal a spangly outfit and taking everyone through a rousing tour of the Ann Miller songbook. More »
Our Hopes For The Australian ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Just Fell Considerably
10:28AM Clem Bastow | We had been crossing our fingers that somehow Channel Ten would be shipping Cat Deeley and pals to our shores for the local version of the greatest reality comp of all time, So You Think You Can Dance.
However, like in so many aspects of our life, we are set to be disappointed, given that Natalie Bassingthwaighte is in contention to host.
Her manager has confirmed the pint-sized rocker is in contention but nothing is locked in as yet.
If she gets the gig she will join recently announced judges Jason Coleman and Matt Lee to front the local version of the US franchise.
Muh! We will, however, take this opportunity to put out our wish-list for guest judges and choreographers: Please, Santa, bring Gideon Obarzanek, Steven Heathcote, Meryl Tankard, Graeme Murphy and Wade Robson (because he is Australian) to the party!
Although, knowing our luck, it’ll be Dein Perry’s Tapdogs all the way.
For the official Ten presser and deets on the announced judges, see after the jump.
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