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Reality TV fans know Joshua Allen can bust a move. The guy did win this past season of So You Think You Can Dance.

But Allen told The Fresno Bee this week that his dream profession might be behind a microphone, as opposed to on the dance floor.

“Overall, I want to be a recording artist. I want to be singer,” Allen said. “I still want to push my dancing career. And I believe if you want to be a good dancer, you have to be well-rounded. You really have to know your stuff. At an audition, they might want a hip-hop dancer who can do pirouettes."

Two days before Joshua Allen was scheduled to leave for the So You Think You Can Dance top 20, his young 13-year-old cousin, Danny, was shot and killed during an altercation over an iPod.

When a local news report aired the story, footage was actually shown of Allen's aunt crying over his cousin’s body. Understandably, this incident almost prevented the eventual champion from continuning on the show.

"I wasn’t going to go on the show," Allen recently told The Star Telegram, a local newspaper in Forth Worth, Texas. "I told my mom, 'I just can’t, I just can’t’.”

However, the finalist's family convinced him that Danny would have wanted him to go on with his life. From there, Allen headed to Los Angeles and set out to win the competition. He accomplished that goal of course, and is grateful for the experience.

"So You Think You Can Dance has opened so many doors for me," he said, adding that he hopes to open a dance studio in the future. "I hope to go to bigger and better things."

So You Think You Can Dance thought he could dance and he was proven correct last week. The hip-hop dancer was crowned winner of So You Think You Can Dance last week.

Below, he answers a few questions from our friends at BuddyTV. Check out the excerpts now...

What has the last week or two been like for you?
Pushed, really. It has really been a push, they really want you to work for it, they’re not giving you anything. They really want you to work for it and push and push and push, so that’s what we did. You know, we were so tired, I looked at the TV and I was watching myself like oh my god, I was gray at one point.

Are you looking forward to getting away for a little bit and just relaxing?
I am, I am. We’ve been going so much and I think it’ll be best right now to get a little break and then start pushing hard. We want to do a great job for the tour also, so we’re going to push our bodies even more. I can’t believe we have 45 or 46 numbers that we’re going to be doing.

Is there anything you’d like to say to your fans now?
Thank you guys so much for voting and for believing in me that I could do it, believing that this year we could do something. It just really means a lot, everybody that voted just means so much to me. I never can express how much that means to me, so I just really want to try to say thank you, thank you, thank you. I just feel so blessed and so humbled by this experience, and you’ll never know the way you changed my life. Thank you again.

The long journey came to a close tonight on So You Think You Can Dance.

After a stirring Parts I and II of the four-part finale (seriously), the final four dancers - Joshua Allen, Twitch Boss, Courtney Galiano and Katee Shean - came back to find out which of them has won the title of America's Favorite Dancer (plus the added bonus of $250,000).

Courtney Galiano was eliminated first. No surprise there.

Then Katee Shean, but there was a surprise in store for Katee.

This year, Nigel Lythgoe and the producers of So You Think You Can Dance wanted to award the top guy and the top girl, so Katee came away with a second place prize of $50,000.

Not a bad way to get eliminated in the end, was it?

So it was down to the two hip hop boys.

The tension was thick. In the end, Twitch Boss came in second as Joshua Allen was crowned the fourth winner of So You Think You Can Dance. Congrats to Joshua - and all of the final four!

All of a sudden, Joshua Allen and "Twitch" Boss have more to worry about this week than the So You Think You Can Dance finale on Thursday night.

The pair of finalists was rushed by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after collapsing at a weekend rehearsal.

"The two dancers rushed to the hospital were Joshua Allen and "Twitch" Boss – both [of the] remaining male contestants," a source told Us Weekly.

Boss and Allen were treated for dehydration and released.

They square off off against Katee Shean and Courtney Galiano this Thursday as the show crowns the country's favorite fancer.