Katie Holmes danced and sang her way through a Judy Garland tribute on the 100th episode of Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” last night to promote her new charity, The Dizzy Feet Foundation, which helps underprivileged children “experience dancing.” Because if there’s anything poor kids are sorely lacking these days, it’s knowing how to do the Cha-Cha and the Watusi. The Daily Mail says

The routine begins with Katie, dressed in a retro 1940s white skirt suit, stepping out of a classic car onto a pebbled street.

She then leans against a lamp post and begins singing the legend’s famous lyrics.

The scene then switches to a stage routine, with Katie dressed in little more than a hat, black tuxedo jacket and fishnets.

As she high-kicks her way through the song, she’s surrounded by muscular male dancers.

Belting out Judy Garland in a pair of fishnets surrounded by sweaty gyrating mens sounds less like a foray into charity and more like Tom Cruise’s wet dream magically come to life. You know what they say — if you can’t live vicariously through your children, live vicariously through your handler-screened animatronic shell of a wife! Or something like that.

Hi there guys, it’s Sonya, and I’ll be filling in for Abby this week, so to start things off–I know you’ve been wondering what Katie Holmes has been up to. No? Well, I have. I was going to Google her to see what’s new, but that was on my to do list after “purify my soul with self-flagellation”, and well, I just didn’t get around to it. What can I say, it’s summer and I’m feeling a bit unrepentant. Which is fortunate that Digital Spy has already taken care of that for me.

Katie Holmes has been described by her choreographer as a “brilliant dancer”, it has emerged.

The 30-year-old actress has been confirmed to appear on the 100th episode of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance on July 23.

Holmes, who is expected to channel Judy Garland, will help aid her nonprofit organisation, the Dizzy Feet Foundation, with her song-and-dance number on the show.

Choreographer Mia Michaels told People: “She’s really blossoming into a gorgeous triple-threat star.

“So, I’m excited. I saw clips of it and it’s brilliant!”

Well, duh. That’s a given. If a Stepford Wife can’t bust out a mean robot dance routine, I don’t know what this world’s coming to. And if she’s “channeling Judy Garland”, I hope that means that Tom Cruise won’t be expecting to get a set of ruby slippers out of this.

Katie “Mrs. Roboto” Holmes, handler and spawn at the Australian stage production of ‘Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons’ at the Princess Theatre….snore