After lawsuits, Deadline reported that Lythgoe was being investigated by Sony Footage TV’s 19 Leisure, which co-produces SYTYCD with Dick Clark Productions.
Lythgoe stepped down from SYTYCD shortly after.
“I’ve knowledgeable the producers of ‘So You Assume You Can Dance’ of my choice to step again from collaborating on this yr’s sequence. I did so with a heavy coronary heart however fully voluntarily as a result of this nice program has all the time been about dance and dancers, and that’s the place its focus wants to stay,” he introduced final week. “Within the meantime, I’m dedicating myself to clearing my identify and restoring my popularity.”