Nigel Lythgoe
Nigel Lythgoe
Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, television dance competition judge, former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol and creator and executive producer of, and a regular judge on So You Think You Can Dance. He also created the 2009 competition Superstars of Dance...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth9 July 1949
voting logic program
The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.
race shows
There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.
idols people television
That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.
casting people unique
We're casting a show here where we want unique people to take back to Hollywood,
frank move quite
To be quite frank with you, we have to move on.
achieved broken changed destroyed discovered dreams egos fame great incredibly littered lives seen stardom talented
In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.
becomes breathing entity experience life rather sensuality sexuality
With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.
tolkien
'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.
became home
'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
screw takes
It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.
genre life truth
Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'
accustomed
I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes.
dancer form tap trained
I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.
everybody
We've had nothing but support from everybody in the dance world for a National Dance Day.