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So You Think You Can Dance fan favorite Billy Bell has been forced to leave the show due to illness. He exclusively tells Life & Style that before this month, he'd never had such unfortunate luck.

"I've had no physical roadblocks, really," Billy says.

Before earning his spot in the So You Think You Can Dance top 20, his ballroom partner in Las Vegas hit him in the face and injured his nose.

"[She gave me] a nice elbow into the left eye socket," Billy tells Life & Style. "It ended up fracturing a tiny part of my nose. I'd never had an injury before Vegas."

Billy's early departure from the show has left SYTYCD viewers wondering what might have been in this dancer's future. Billy's replacement joined the show Tuesday night.

Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe has issued a statement conveying his sympathy for Billy: "We are disappointed that Billy cannot continue dancing in the competition on the advice of his doctor and wish him a speedy recovery."

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So You Think You Can Dance judge Nigel Lythgoe tells Life & Style that he still wants the former American Idol judge to join the SYTYCD team.

"I love Paula. I can't think of anybody better for So You Think You Can Dance with her experience as a dancer, choreographer and judge, and there is an empty seat waiting for her. I'd be very happy to have her any time she wants," says Nigel.

But there may not be room for Paula to join the panel permanently this season. Film director and choreographer Adam Shankman was recently named the new judge of So You Think You Can Dance. Adam has appeared several times as a guest judge in the past and is set to start on the show Oct. 27.

Nigel tells Life & Style that he hasn't heard back from Paula but hopes she's considering being at least a guest judge. "I think she's probably taking stock of what she's going to do. She's certainly doing very well with Divas at the moment," he said of the star's turn hosting and performing at VH1's Divas Live concert.

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Katie Holmes has been spotted arriving -- in dance clothes -- at the So You Think You Can Dance studios in LA, confirming Life & Style's exclusive report that Katie is working with the popular dance show.

Life & Style reported exclusively last week that Katie had been talking to the show's producer Nigel Lythgoe about doing a special performance. Then yesterday Katie turned up at CBS Studios, where the show is filmed in front of a live audience.

Insiders tell Life & Style that Katie has been in intense rehearsals either for a performance this season or next.

They say Katie is working on a slinky Broadway-inspired number.

Nigel also turned up at CBS Studios Saturday, telling X17online, "I'm going to have a meeting [with Katie]."

Questioned about whether he's planning anything big in the near future, Nigel said, "Something very, very, very special."

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