After showing as a choose on Season 17, JoJo Siwa is returning to So You Suppose You Can Dance for Season 18, in any case, changing Nigel Lythgoe following the sequence co-creator’s choice to step down after two sexual assault lawsuits.
Whereas So You Suppose You Can Dance is promising a reinvention of its format for the upcoming Season 18, there’ll now be at the very least one acquainted face from Season 17. JoJo Siwa has been introduced as a choose, changing Nigel Lythgoe, who exited after going through two sexual assault lawsuits.
“I’ve knowledgeable the producers of So You Suppose You Can Dance of my choice to step again from collaborating on this 12 months’s sequence,” Lythgoe informed TMZ earlier this month.
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“I did so with a heavy coronary heart however fully voluntarily as a result of this nice program has all the time been about dance and dancers, and that is the place its focus wants to stay,” he continued. “Within the meantime, I’m dedicating myself to clearing my identify and restoring my popularity.”
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The present’s co-creator and government producer has denied allegations coming from Paula Abdul, first reported by Rolling Stone — who alleges an incident every on American Idol and SYTYCD — and two All American Lady contestants.
Following the lawsuits, the present’s manufacturing companions (Fox, 19 Leisure, and Dick Clark Productions) launched a press release that the season would proceed with out Lythgoe “to make sure the present stays dedicated to the contestants, who’ve labored extremely arduous for the chance to compete on our stage.”
This marks the second season in a row that SYTYCD has needed to do a last-minute choose change. Leah Remini joined the present halfway via Season 17 after it was revealed Glee alum Matthew Morrison had been sending non-public messages to a contestant, violating present coverage.
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Stephen “tWitch” Boss was the third choose for Season 17, himself a former runner-up on the dance competitors. Boss died by suicide in December 2022. This 12 months, Siwa will sit alongside Boss’ spouse and Season 2 contestant, Allison Holker. The brand new panel is rounded out by Dancing with the Stars alum Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
A Dance Mothers alum with years of expertise, Siwa was nonetheless an surprising and considerably controversial alternative as a choose final summer time at simply 19 years previous. She proved educated and insightful, although, providing efficient and pointed critiques to the contestants.
The brand new season will nonetheless award “America’s Favourite Dancer” with a $100,000 grand prize, but it surely additionally promised a contemporary new look, with a extra documentary-style filming strategy to chronicle the contestant’s journeys.
Cat Deeley, who has been with the present because the starting, shall be again as host when Season 18 of So You Suppose You Can Dance kicks off Monday, March 4 at 9pm ET on Fox.
