Cat Deeley will host the 17th season of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, which will premiere on May 18 at 9/8c. The multi-Emmy Award-winning dance competition series host is a television personality and model with a $15 million net worth. The multi-talented 45-year-old personality is said to demand about $60,000 each episode. Do You Believe You Can Dance? is Fox’s popular reality dance competition. After auditioning hundreds of individuals around the nation, a group of talented dancers is chosen. They continue to compete in the program for the crown and a large financial reward.

According to the show’s official synopsis:

“This season will showcase highly experienced dancers aged 18 to 30 displaying their abilities in a variety of dance forms such as contemporary, tap, hip-hop, ballroom, animation, breaking, and more. Those that are chosen advance to the SYTYCD studio, where they will train with world-renowned choreographers and compete in a variety of genres each week, with brand-new twists and turns incorporated into the competition.”

Cat Deeley

Who exactly is Cat Deeley?

Cat, who was born on October 26, 1976, in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England, was 14 years old when she competed in a regional version of a BBC competition for The Clothes Show, reaching the finals. Following the presentation, she drew the notice of a Storm Modeling Agency representative, who signed her as a model. She was a full-time fashion model by the age of 18. However, by 1997, she had left the profession to work as a TV presenter.

Cat Deeley hosted the Saturday morning children’s show SMTV Live from 1998 until 2002. Deeley also won the Scorpio Multimedia Cable TV Awards for Favourite UK Cable Personality. She also started her career as a presenter in 2006. She began hosting So You Think You Can Dance’s the second season. She was one of several speakers at the Diana Memorial Concert in 2007.

Cat Deeley

In January 2011, she began her acting career by starring in the Disney Channel series Shake It Up as a vice principal who is secretly a dancer or a presenter. She then went on CNN’s Icon and chatted with Nancy Cartwright. Cat Deeley, Yahoo!, and Collective Digital Studio collaborated to create a “behind-the-scenes” online series in June 2011.

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