JoJo Siwa is making her extremely anticipated return to the “So You Assume You Can Dance” judges’ panel!
In an unique sneak peek from Monday’s all-new episode of the dance competitors collection, host Cat Deeley excitedly broadcasts Siwa because the shock third decide to the remaining “High 10” dancers.
“And I wager you all wanna know who the ultimate decide is,” Deeley teases, as fellow judges Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Allison Holker patiently await Siwa’s grand entrance. “Please welcome, JoJo Siwa!”
The contestants couldn’t comprise their pleasure over the reveal, leaping up and down and screaming loudly because the “Dance Moms” alum made her manner onto the stage.
“[I’m] so excited to be right here … I’ve been in your very same place earlier than and it’s arduous, it’s nerve-racking,” Siwa, 20, defined to the group. “There’s going to be numerous strain, however you may’t have worry.”
The clip previews the present’s “Problem #1: Music Movies” episode, through which the “High 10” battle it out in hopes of advancing one step nearer to the “SYTYCD” finale and $100,000 grand prize.
The dancers remaining in the competition – Olivia Alboher, Madison Alvarado, Braylon Browner, Anthony Curley, Avery Homosexual, Mariyah Hawkins, Easton Magliarditi, Roman Nevinchanyi, Jaylin Sanders and Dakayla Wilson – can be break up into two teams to deal with music video challenges choreographed by Luther Brown and Phillip and Makenzie Chbeeb.
Siwa is rejoining the judges’ panel for Season 18 alongside Chmerkovskiy, 44, and Holker, 36. The previous Nickelodeon star is stepping in to exchange Nigel Lythgoe after he stepped down amid a bombshell lawsuit filed by his colleague Paula Abdul in December 2023. Lythgoe, 74, has vehemently denied the claims.
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“19 Leisure, Dick Clark Productions, and FOX can verify the upcoming season of ‘So You Assume You Can Dance’ will proceed, though with out Nigel Lythgoe, to make sure the present stays dedicated to the contestants, who’ve labored extremely arduous for the chance to compete on our stage,” the manufacturing corporations and community behind “SYTYCD” instructed Web page Six in an announcement on the time.
Siwa – who has been dancing and singing since she was a toddler – beforehand judged the present alongside Holker’s late husband, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, and “Glee” alum Matthew Morrison for the present’s seventeenth season in 2022.
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Along with her reprised judging gig, the former “Dancing With the Stars” contestant and “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” alum has additionally been making headlines for her rebranded “bad girl” image.
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Followers on social media shared mixed reactions to Siwa’s new look when she stepped out to the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month in edgy paint make-up seemingly inspired by rock ’n’ roll band KISS.
“Individuals are afraid of issues they don’t know. Issues might be scary for individuals. New issues might be very, very scary,” Siwa told E! News on the star-studded red carpet whereas selling her new “Karma” single.
“The way in which that I’m in a position to preserve going and preserve being like, ‘Wait, really what I’m doing is true’ is as a result of a few of the most revered individuals on the planet have come as much as me,” she continued. “[They’ve] been like, ‘What you’re doing proper now could be so proper. It’s what the world wants, and I’m studying from what you’re doing proper now.’”
Regardless of the continued criticism from some on-line trolls, Siwa has obtained loads of reward from A-listers like rock icon Gene Simmons and actress Tori Spelling, whom known as her “cool” and “kickass,” respectively.
Tune into the all-new “Problem #1: Music Movies” episode of “So You Assume You Can Dance” airing Monday, April 15 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on FOX and the following day on Hulu.