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Creative Loafing
Maybe we’re too hard on reality stars. Sure, they’re generally narcissistic and walk around with a pseudo-importance during, and even years after, their 15 minutes of fame are up. But how many of us would turn down the opportunity to spend a summer in an LA mansion, being VIP at every club, and of course, drinking from a seemingly unlimited supply of alcohol provided by the show’s producers. I’d say, “Fuck my internship,” too.
Everyone you see partying, fighting, crying, bitching and ultimately building alliances to “survive” on reality TV has their own reason for auditioning — and Charlotte native
Kendra James’ was a whim.
She decided to road trip from Greensboro, where she was in college, with her girls to attend an open casting call in Charlotte, and after months of calls backs she found herself on season four of Oxygen’s
Bad Girls Club. Sounds way hotter than the
Biggest Loser.
We recently caught up with the Queen City resident turned reality show hottie and talked about her TV experience.
Creative Loafing: How long was the audition process for the Bad Girls Club?
Kendra: I started doing
The Real World. I did seven interviews with Real World, and then they called me and said you didn’t make the Real World but do you want to try the
Bad Girls Club and then I had three or four interviews with the
Bad Girls Club.
Was it hard for you to drop everything and say, “I’m gonna go out here and live with a bunch of girls on TV”?
Well, Initially it was over the summer, so it was easy. I wasn’t in school, I didn’t really have any obligations, so it really easy for me to say I want to take this opportunity. But it ended up going over into the school year, so I had to push back my graduation date. I definitely wouldn’t change anything, but it definitely changed my plans a little bit.