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Last night So You Think You Can Dance Canada crowned a winner – if you’re into it, I’m sure you already know who (I won’t spoil it, just in case)! But I’m not here to recap or talk about the finale – I’m just here to give some completely biased love to one of the final four contestants: Natalli!

A couple years ago Kat kept gushing about this class at her gym that mixed cardio with hip-hop, super dope tunes and an amazing teacher. She pulled me along and I was hooked – not only were we blasting our abs to Salt ‘N Pepa, but the teacher was a freaking firecracker, a ball of infectious energy named Natalli. Soon we were lugging other friends along and it wasn’t long before we garnered up enough interest to start our own Thursday night classes close to work. Natalli would whip our asses (she: barely cracking a sweat) and then teach us a new choreography routine (dumbed down for the rhythmically challenged) each week. It was the best class ever. Sometimes we’d sit in a pow wow and ask her questions about what she eats to get abs like that (progress: stalled). Then she went on tour with Nelly Furtado and we were all very happeh for her. Fast forward to now, and the lady was a top 4 finalist on SYTYCD Canada’s inaugural season – colour us misty-eyed and proud!

It’s kind of surreal to see someone you’ve known in real life compete on a reality show, but also really exciting. When you meet Natalli in real life, you can’t help but love her – and so that’s why Kat and I were glued to our phones on Wednesday nights, voting for the ripped blonde that could. Get it, gurrrl!

Posted on Monday, December 8th, 2008 at 2:38 pm by Wendy and is filed under We <3 TV.

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