Don't forget to watch So You Think You Can Dance tomorrow night at 6.30pm on BBC1.
I've just been chatting to the farming contestant, Alastair Postlethwaite, as he grabbed a few minutes' break from rehearsals - and I'll definitely be voting for him.
Alastair's a real-life Billy Elliot, having attended dance classes by chance as a boy (a mate happened to go, so he tagged along) only to find his prodigious natural talent took him to the Royal Ballet School at the age of 11.
"I live in the middle of a farming community in Lancashire," says the 28-year-old, who's made it to the finals of this nationwide contest offering the winner £100,000 and the chance to dance in Hollywood.
Presented by Cat Deeley and featuring 'Nasty' Nigel Lythgoe as one of the judges, the show sees contestants attempting to master different dance styles each week.
"Nigel calls me farmer boy, but I'm proud of it," laughs Alastair.
"I was born to be a dancer," he adds. "Whether it is ten people in a studio or ten million, it makes no difference to me!
"I absolutely love what I'm doing at the moment, but I also love going home. London's too busy!"
Alastair, who'll be performing the Cha Cha Cha with Mandy on this week's show, reckons he nearly didn't apply for SYTYCD. "I only auditioned on a whim. And I felt sick with excitement when I heard I'd got through!"
The experience is, he says, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in terms of the exposure it brings and will help his dancing as he could face styles as varied as hip-hop, jazz, Broadway and lyrical, along with the chance to work with world-class choreographers and mentors.
He's picked up a lot of supporters and his routines are popular with the live audience (his mum and dad are travelling down from Sollom to support him).
Surely, though, the whole experience is terrifying?
"My biggest fear would have to be falling over, especially from a leap. The thing about leaping, in ballet, is that from the top of the jump you know if it's going wrong, you can feel it in your balance. It's scary, you can feel your heart stop for a second."
Two people will be kicked off the show every week (who goes is decided partly by the judges and partly by a public vote) before the live final on February 13.
Whatever happens, he then plans to spend some time back in the countryside at home.
"I've been banned from driving tractors, though, because I keep crashing them."
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Good luck for the final on the 13th Feb , from all at Rufford , Hesketh Arms,and Sollom Go for it Alastair !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sid
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