TK4ever

This could be directly from my high school yearbook. I would be the blonde on the bottom left.

The thing that makes DCC different is that you sign a contract at the first meeting, committing to a season. Many entertainment jobs involve contracts, and many contract entertainers are financially penalized (and sometimes blackballed) if they break contract.

All-stars visit the luxury suites during halftime to pose for photos. Since it’s a paid gig they likely were told they had to make their regular appearances instead.

Yeah, but that still makes her top 10, and significantly higher than Group Leader Lexie, who hasn’t seemed to move much on the leaderboard.

I see what you’re talking about in Kelli, and I kind of get it. After this many seasons of TV show, you think these training camp candidates would know some of this. I just cannot imagine trying out without watching a few seasons, practicing the kicks and jump split and trying to learn the field intro. And I’m sure the tryout paperwork offers social media guidance. But geez, at least make your accounts private during camp, or clean up anything questionable. They should know enough about DCC to know what’s appropriate.

I agree with this completely. Several years ago I had a summer internship in a different city. The company told me that the intern each year stayed with a specific family and did summer work on their farm (and still paid room and board, so it wasn’t free or officially part of the job.) I wasn’t excited about staying with a family I’d never met, so I made arrangements to move in with some of my friends instead, and there were a lot of hard feelings. But it’s just not in my comfort zone to move in with another family for three months, and I’m sure there are others who feel the same way. If they want to show Kleine and Natalie together, the conversation they had seemed appropriate, or they could shoot some footage of Kleine rehearsing by the pool to showcase the house in a more subtle way. The tour of the house was a bit too much.

Most of it is either free or heavily discounted from “sponsors” who pick up a ton of business from the free advertising they get from the work they do on the DCC. Plus a lot of these ladies come from money. Dancing is an expensive hobby.

Did anyone catch what was said about Kleine during the judges’ deliberations? The dog started to bark and I missed it.

I think Sydney and Jenna got to stick around past year 5 because both were only 23 or 24 when they hit 5 years. I feel like the powers that be will point Lexie toward retirement and put her on All-Stars.

Honestly, it’s not Tom Pennington’s fault. When you shoot for Getty they own every single photo you shoot, so he’s contractually obligated to send every shot. Some editor at Getty is responsible for this one getting posted. They seem to love the shots that inspire Schadenfreude.

Ugh, they used to do that stuff for “team building.” It was super popular during that era. I was a camp counselor one summer and we had to scale a 12-foot wall as a team, then later hop onto a rope and swing across a giant ravine. If one person failed, we all failed. The whole exercise ended the next year when our boss — part of a different team of older management types as opposed to my more athletic college student group — fell off the rope and broke an ankle.

I can’t read any of this without thinking of thIs:

This is the curse of the wide-angle shot. Anyone on the far left will look wider than they are. TV cameras are even worse than still photography, and it isn’t just people. Realtors use this trick att the time to try to make rooms look bigger.

That’s not all that difficult, there are flights from Dallas to O’Hare and Midway as early as 5:45 am.

I haven’t seen 50-yard-line Kelsey recently, but she got implants after she retired that were in the ballpark of what Kelli would call excessive, so who knows what she’d look like in the uniform. Also I suspect they don’t approve of the level of Instagram sponsorships she has, like they felt she wanted to come back to boost her influencer career. And making it back after retiring tends to be challenging in general. They seem to prefer the younger and more malleable ladies.