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"Thousands auditioned for the seventh season of So You Think You Can Dance but just three remain going into this week&amp;#039;s finale: Lauren Froderman, Kent Boyd and Robert Roldan will each compete for the title of &amp;#039;America&amp;#039;s Favorite Dancer&amp;#039; on tomorrow and Thursday&amp;#039;s instalments of the Fox competition. We caught up with host Cat Deeley as she shared her thoughts on the season... With the exception of finding out the winner, what are you looking forward to most in the finale? &amp;quot;We have lots of interesting performances and there will be some very, very surprise special guests which obviously I can&amp;#039;t tell you about! There will be some moments that will be must-see TV and water cooler conversation like, &amp;#039;Oh my goodness, did you see who performed that routine with Twitch?!&amp;#039; He will be performing the Alex Wong hip-hop piece that Tabitha and Napoleon choreographed with a very special guest dancer.&amp;quot; Who do you think will win? &amp;quot;I think it could be any one of the three. I think that Robert is exceptionally strong, Lauren is the last girl left and has been for weeks now, and Kent has that charm that viewers find incredibly endearing. If I was a betting woman and had to put money where my mouth is, I would probably go for Kent. That&amp;#039;s not to do with his technical ability, it&amp;#039;s more to do with the reaction I see from the screaming girls in the studio. It&amp;#039;s literally like Beatlemania when he hits the stage! Hormones are rushing everywhere and there is general high-pitched screaming!&amp;quot; Did you think these would be the final three or were there any surprises? &amp;quot;There were elements of surprise, definitely. I think I&amp;#039;ve always seen Kent as a real competitor, actually. Right from the moment when he was in Vegas. He just had something about him that was so endearing. He has a very childlike quality and is a little green, but in the most wonderful way and he says what comes into his mind. He doesn&amp;#039;t try to play the show or the cameras and I think people find that incredibly refreshing. So I kind of knew he would make it on to the show from seeing him in Vegas, but I didn&amp;#039;t know he would get this far.&amp;quot; What did you think of the cast this year? &amp;quot;I loved the cast this season. That&amp;#039;s the whole thing, we are casting a TV show so it wouldn&amp;#039;t be great to have all the same type of people in one show because nobody would watch. And we&amp;#039;re looking for America&amp;#039;s Favorite Dancer. If you look back on previous seasons, quite often the best technical dancer hasn&amp;#039;t won and that&amp;#039;s because they have to be able to communicate with the audience too. They have to have that certain star quality, whatever that x-factor or magic fairy dust is that makes people connect with them. America votes. They have to get up off the couch and they have to use their phone and call for them. What we try to do is balance it all out. Yes, of course they have to be great technical dancers - because there is no way they could stay in the competition this long if they weren&amp;#039;t - but they have to have that connection with the audience which normally involves having a great personality and sense of humor, being able to tell stories and think on your feet.&amp;quot; What are your thoughts on the number of injuries this season? &amp;quot;I really don&amp;#039;t know. In terms of the amount of time they spend dancing and what we&amp;#039;re asking them to do physically, there is really nothing that different this season to the past six seasons. I really don&amp;#039;t know other than to say it&amp;#039;s been the curse of season seven. That&amp;#039;s definitely something we&amp;#039;re looking into because we don&amp;#039;t want people to be injured either. We want them to learn from the experience and to push them as far as we can, and certainly don&amp;#039;t want injuries. It&amp;#039;s definitely something we&amp;#039;re looking at, but in terms of it being something simple as, &amp;#039;Oh, now they&amp;#039;re doing 15 hours of rehearsal a week instead of seven&amp;#039;, that just simply isn&amp;#039;t the case. There isn&amp;#039;t an obvious, finite reason why they are getting injured this season.&amp;quot; Can you share any stories of funny things that have happened behind the scenes?! &amp;quot;When I had all the dancers around at my house for the July 4 barbecue one of the make-up artists came to the house as well and was administering suncream on all of them saying, &amp;#039;The last thing I can deal with is anybody with sunburn&amp;#039;. Kent got in the pool and did a somersault and bumped his nose twice. He didn&amp;#039;t just do it once and learn his lesson! He did it twice! The next week it literally looked like he cut open all his nose from being in my swimming pool. I was in big trouble with the make-up artists!&amp;quot; Did you ever expect the show would become this big? &amp;quot;To be perfectly honest, I didn&amp;#039;t. I kind of dreamed that it might be and I wanted it to be a huge success but you can never envisage that kind of level of success. People are really passionate about it too. It&amp;#039;s not just the figures that we get but the people that watch are absolutely, 100% dedicated fans who are completely passionate about it. It&amp;#039;s not as though our audience dips in and dips out, they follow the show every single week and feel as though they know every single dancer and that&amp;#039;s what I love most of all about it - the passion behind it and the audience really getting involved. That&amp;#039;s something we never take for granted and it&amp;#039;s why we wanted to mix it up a little bit this year and have the all-stars on the show and Mia [Michaels] on the panel. I think we have to try to constantly surprise, delight and entertain.&amp;quot; How have the season seven changes affected you? &amp;quot;To be honest, I&amp;#039;ve loved it. On a professional level I think the all-stars upped the ante a little bit and really helped the dancers. They have been invaluable to them, not only in terms of their professional and technical dancing, but also in terms of what the experience is all about and the things to remember. They are very good at giving advice too. On a personal level I like having them back because I get the chance to see them all again. It&amp;#039;s like they&amp;#039;ve gone off to college! Twitch has done Step Up 3D, Mark&amp;#039;s been on tour with Lady GaGa... They&amp;#039;ve all been doing their own things and then they come back and I can catch up with them all, find out exactly what they&amp;#039;ve been doing, how much they&amp;#039;re enjoying life, who&amp;#039;s kissing who - all that kind of great stuff!&amp;quot; What did you think of the first season without Mary Murphy? &amp;quot;I think we all miss Mary Murphy, she was definitely part of the panel. I think she will definitely come back and that&amp;#039;s one thing about the show, it really is a family and the door is always open and everybody can always come back. Mia didn&amp;#039;t do a season with us and came back. It&amp;#039;s mixing it up a little bit. On a personal level I miss having Mary Murphy around because she is so enthusiastic and so full of fun and energy and craziness, I kind of miss that.&amp;quot; Have you got a favorite season or cast? &amp;quot;I actually do really like this year. I think we kind of got it right with the kids we chose. I think they were brilliant. I also like to see people from previous seasons who go on to do amazing things like Mark who has gone on tour with Lady GaGa and then he comes back to the studio and all of a sudden he&amp;#039;s a man! And Travis Wall, who was on season two and is now doing the most incredible choreography. He used his experience on the show and the platform that we elevated him to and ran with it and turned that luck into opportunity. He&amp;#039;s now choreographing the most amazing work and I&amp;#039;m in no doubt that he will win an Emmy.&amp;quot; So You Think You Can Dance airs this Wednesday and Thursday at 8pm ET/PT on Fox "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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