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Marissa is under 21 as well, right?

I miss them, always loved their take on things.

I read the comment as, “yeahhhh... this unselfish / brave commentary is BS”.

If Kelli really wanted to capitalize on this, wouldn’t she have done the cut on camera?

Thank you for sharing! I certainly don't want to get you in trouble! I wonder how it truly went down. There are always three sides to a story - my side, your side, and the truth somewhere in the middle, am I right? I have to imagine our insider is getting the details from the VK camp as to make VK look sympathetic and now Kelli is the big bad meanie for using this for storylines? I can see a world where VK has been warned all season, and finally, Kelli pulls her in, tells her "no more warnings, here's where we're at - you're not going to make it past finals / into camp" (however they are doing it this year). Which then leads to her and VK getting into an argument about it(since we know VK will push back on / lie to Kelli) and Kelli just getting exasperated with it and yelling. I assume nothing was filmed so we will never know....

I don't have Facebook - was anything else said in that post?

I wonder why the comment about TK not being the villain was left out here.

That must be the season where they threw Daphne a fake graduation ceremony, but then also tried to use the death of Shaina's friends as content...

If I recall correctly, boyfriend was a generous interpretation of their situation. I believe he recently had a second child with the mother of his first child and those two are together.

I love her dress too! I’m curious what the stated dress code actually is... you’ve got some wild interpretations goin’ on in that photo. My best guess is semi-formal? Most of the outfits would be totally normal to see at a ( on black tie or more formal) wedding up here in Boston... and others look like they’re for a tea party... not to mention the beach cover up!

I felt the same way and I wonder if the pandemic and this year’s set up contributed to that feeling. Normally, lots of candidates travel to Dallas (if they don’t live there) for prep classes and of course tryouts. If a TCC makes it to camp, they are generally at least finding short term housing for the summer. So in a normal year, you’re already more invested in the process while this year was just all video work until TC. I think it was awesome that housing was paid for this year for camp due to the “bubble”, but I can see where you don’t feel as invested to fly in and have a super condensed TC and get cut midway through. It just feels like a regular ol’ audition at that point. I also think that you may have had more people try out on a whim this year rather than committing to being in Dallas for tryouts, so it was no harm no foul for them to get cut and fly back to their “normal” life.

Many girls share outfits or rewear them. After a wild 2020, I have grace for people who may appreciate a subsidy for classes. A good way for teams to invite diversity to their squad is to remove barriers that would preclude all qualified applicants to try out and rock it.

A good ambassador shouldn’t outweigh a total dance risk though!

It looks like she is in her 3rd year of med school and transferred to UNLV from wherever she was going to in Mexico.

I agree with you. I’ve had to do a lot of layoffs recently because of COVID and had hard conversations related to performance when leading teams throughout my career. I didn’t see anything unprofessional from the three vets. Kelli needs to learn how to manage and have tough conversations with people. Why did Lily have to ask point blank if she was getting cut? Why is Judy even in the room if she says nothing? I feel as if J&K were ruder to the cut vets than the cut rookies. Maybe that’s why people felt that the conversations were unprofessional? It was IMO stemming from J&K’s end, not the vets. Also if more virtual events were happening in 2020 (per a cut rookie’s Zoom), why would you cut vets for dance related reasons... Brennan especially should’ve been your #1 all around ambassador in that regard. She has a serious career and you can tell her interactions with J&K this week when on zoom.