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Posted: 5/26/11 at 7:32pm
It's that time of year again. My favorite TV show of the summer is back. This season will return to the old format of 20 finalists hoofing it together, and bring back the “All Star” partners once the contestants are cut down to a Top 10. Plus Mary Murphy is back on the judges panel. She also revealed why she did not return as a judge for season 7, and she also talks about her cancer:
"It was never quite clear why you weren’t a part of the season and Mia Michaels replaced you. What happened?
You have to understand that [before season 7], we did two seasons [in one year]. I was involved in the Australian and Canadian version [of So You Think You Can Dance]. When they laid the second season on us, which was like in June [2009], we had just finished doing the auditioning. I went right back out on the road and was doing the auditions again. It was the busiest year of my life, because I had already booked out my fall. I had so many commitments and I really like to live up to my word. I literally was red-eyeing it back and forth, criss-crossing this country.
Fox did make me an offer [for judging on season 7]. Things fell down in negotiation on my side, and I started having some major tragedies in my personal life and was absolutely dead exhausted. We came to the conclusion that I would choreograph, and I came back for Las Vegas week, and then my house started spiraling out of control. I was taught to be keen and very vigilant. I knew I had a tumor in my throat, but I was so confident and in denial that it would never turn to cancer. I went along my merry way.
Then in the summertime, I started becoming extremely exhausted. Then I slowly became losing my voice, and then I started having a hard time swallowing. My friends were insistent that I see a doctor. In September, there are so many judges on the finale, you don’t really get to say anything, which was fine with me. [Laughs] I was just getting through it, which nobody knew at that time. I didn’t discuss it with anybody. Honestly, I didn’t really think I had a problem. [Laughs]
In September, we negotiated and I said yes, I would come back for a three-year deal. Two weeks later, I was told I may never talk again, and that I [likely] had thyroid cancer. It was a little bit of a roller coaster. I had some personal deaths that year — two were not expected and one was. Everything happens for a reason, and looking back, as much as I hated not being on the show, it was definitely a time in my life where I needed to be off."
"How is your health right now?
Right now, I’m doing really good. In February, after the radioactive isotope treatment, I am cancer free. I was back on the roller coaster again, going back uphill again and doing the [SYTYCD] auditions."
'SYTYCD': Mary Murphy on returning to the judges chair, and the cancer scare that almost took her voice
"It was never quite clear why you weren’t a part of the season and Mia Michaels replaced you. What happened?
You have to understand that [before season 7], we did two seasons [in one year]. I was involved in the Australian and Canadian version [of So You Think You Can Dance]. When they laid the second season on us, which was like in June [2009], we had just finished doing the auditioning. I went right back out on the road and was doing the auditions again. It was the busiest year of my life, because I had already booked out my fall. I had so many commitments and I really like to live up to my word. I literally was red-eyeing it back and forth, criss-crossing this country.
Fox did make me an offer [for judging on season 7]. Things fell down in negotiation on my side, and I started having some major tragedies in my personal life and was absolutely dead exhausted. We came to the conclusion that I would choreograph, and I came back for Las Vegas week, and then my house started spiraling out of control. I was taught to be keen and very vigilant. I knew I had a tumor in my throat, but I was so confident and in denial that it would never turn to cancer. I went along my merry way.
Then in the summertime, I started becoming extremely exhausted. Then I slowly became losing my voice, and then I started having a hard time swallowing. My friends were insistent that I see a doctor. In September, there are so many judges on the finale, you don’t really get to say anything, which was fine with me. [Laughs] I was just getting through it, which nobody knew at that time. I didn’t discuss it with anybody. Honestly, I didn’t really think I had a problem. [Laughs]
In September, we negotiated and I said yes, I would come back for a three-year deal. Two weeks later, I was told I may never talk again, and that I [likely] had thyroid cancer. It was a little bit of a roller coaster. I had some personal deaths that year — two were not expected and one was. Everything happens for a reason, and looking back, as much as I hated not being on the show, it was definitely a time in my life where I needed to be off."
"How is your health right now?
Right now, I’m doing really good. In February, after the radioactive isotope treatment, I am cancer free. I was back on the roller coaster again, going back uphill again and doing the [SYTYCD] auditions."
'SYTYCD': Mary Murphy on returning to the judges chair, and the cancer scare that almost took her voice
Updated On: 7/8/11 at 07:32 PM
