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In the early seasons they did use their last names. Then I noticed there was a season where some still used their last names, while others used first and middle before everyone going to first and middle. I've always thought that it was a privacy issue and giving the girls more security. If they want to persue a professional career in entertainment in the future, they can, of course, add their DCC experience to their resume and their last names will become public. On the other hand, if they don't want a public career going forward, they're good.

I saw that. I wasn't sure if they put them in groups based on that, or it was meant to just show them how to work together better. I worked at a summer camp and we did Personality In Colors during pre-camp counselor training. I didn't assign counselors to cabins based on their personalities, it was just a tool to learn how to work with different personalities. Putting all of the same personality together kinda defeats the purpose.

Cool. Thanks for the info. I've always wondered how it worked. 😃

So in other words, you had a motivation to lose your accent. As for Colby, she annoyed the hell out of me. The accent, the plastic surgery, the really bad dancing. They shouldn't have let her get past prelims. I mute the show when she's on. Her fakeness is really that annoying to me. Colby,Vivian and Ashley Paige top my list as THE most annoying TCC's.

Curious about the groups. They're put into groups early on in training camp. I'm wondering if how they are placed in a group might play a part in who gets cut. So like, before training camp starts, they know who is below the line of 36. I wonder if they place those girls in different groups knowing that they are the ones most likely to get cut. Are the groups set in stone when they announce them? Or is it possible someone might get moved to another group to even them out after cuts are made? Does that make sense? Like if 3 girls get cut from one group and another group doesn't have any cuts, how does that work? The deeper question is, does that play a part in who gets cut. Do they sit there and look at the last few girls and what groups they're in and how many each group can lose before making their decision?

Funny how I have friends from England who have lived in Oklahoma for 25 years and still have their English accents and haven't picked up any form of southern accent. Funny how Angela and Jinelle didn't lose their Australian accents after living here for years. You have to want to lose your accent. And by the way, I grew up in Oklahoma, lived in California for years, Nashville, TN, and a small town in east Texas (for 20 years) and never picked up any of their accents. And the east Texas accent is a doozy. Maybe I didn't pick up the southern accent because I didn't grow up with it and didn't want it. On the other hand, we Americans love English and Australian accents, so we might try a little harder to "develop" that accent. I also had a roommate who grew up in a small town in Oklahoma and moved to New York for 6 months - came back with a fake accent and calling her purse and pocket book. As for her being in London for 10 years - how do you know? I've seen that she hadn't been performing for 10 years and that she had lived in London. That does not mean she was there for 10 years. She may have been working here for 9 years before moving to London. I also know her small town in Texas very well. I had to drive through it when I lived in east Texas when I went back and forth to Oklahoma. She's proud of moving to London, because most of the people I met while living in small towns in east Texas have never left their towns. Not even for vacations. I lived around people who thought they had been to the mountains because they had been to Arkansas and thought IHOP was the best restaurant on the planet because they left the coffee pot on the table (they also had to drive 50 miles one way to get to one). Imagine growing up in a town like that and dreaming of getting out. Of course when you come back, you want to show how much better you are - just like my roommate. Also interesting how Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne can live in the U.S. for DECADES and not lose their accents - I can keep going.

Wonder if she's lost her fake English accent yet. So annoying.

Colby has to be THE most obnoxious TCC in history. I had to drive through her hometown of Mt. Pleasant, TX everytime I drove up to Oklahoma to see my family. It's a nothing town on I-30. You stop there for gas on your way to wherever you're going on I-30. It cracks me up when people from small towns do something like move to another state or another country and come back with a fake accent. I just finished watching a recent interview with Meghan Markel who's married to the freaking Prince of England and somehow has managed to keep her American accent. LOL! How Colby ever got past prelims is beyond me. Unless they just added her for a unique story line - the girl with the fake everything.

I'm watching season 2 right now on Pluto where Melissa Rycroft supposedly had mono "last week." As someone who has had mono, I find that very unlikely. #1. She would still be VERY contagious (at least for 2 months), #2. There would be absolutely no dancing for at least 2 months for her spleen to go back to normal size - otherwise she would be at risk of it rupturing. My doctor said no strenuous exercise for a year. #3. She would not have the energy to dance, at all, let alone well, for several months even after her fever was gone and her spleen was back to normal. I love Melissa, but give me a break. She did not have mono. No doctor would have allowed her into training camp with it. And you do not get over it in a week.