Update: Corrected to show none of the men have been cut from the cast.

It could’ve been potentially disastrous.

On So You Think You Can Dance, the final group started with six men and five women. After a few weeks of cutdowns, more women saw the door than men, leaving six men and three girls. Now, while it was still possible for each guy to pair off with a female counterpart, the powers that be decided the time had come for two guys to be paired up.

And so classically trained ballet dancer Alex Wong — of the Miami City Ballet — was paired with hip-hop master Stephen “Twitch” Boss.

But what could’ve been an out-and-out train wreck turned into one of the show’s top routines of this season and possibly any other.

Take a look at Alex — who also talks glowingly of his boss, Edward Villella — showing that because he’s pretty much up for any style, he has to be considered the clear favorite to take this season’s crown:

Billy Bell (top); Alex Wong.

Zap2It columnist Korbi Ghosh pulled in a big scoop for long-time So You Think You Can Dance watchers.

She got Nigel Lythgoe on a quick on-camera interview to talk about the show. One of the twists this year, as Lythgoe notes, is that because the finalists will be paired up every week with one of the show’s all-stars, there will only be 10 finalists instead of the usual 20.

So when Korbi gets Lythgoe to mention the top dancers, he talks about both Billy Bell, the 20-year-old dancer from Loxahatchee Groves who made last year’s final 20 but had to quit due to mononucleosis, and Alex Wong, the Miami City Ballet dancer who was unable to reach the finals two seasons ago because the company wouldn’t allow him to leave his contract.

And Lythgoe says only one of them makes it into the final 10. Like I said, kind of a shocker, considering how well-liked both Bell and Wong are among fans.
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