The Emerald Belles will be back on your screens this week. The Carroll drill team is slated to appear and perform on the daytime talk show, “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” on NBC at 2 p.m. on Thursday. This comes after the group of high schoolers competed on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” last summer.
Emerald Belles director Melissa Page says she reached out to the show to see if they would be interested in featuring her team. Along that way, she learned just how connected Southlake can be.
“I found out there was a former student who graduated from Carroll that worked for ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show,’” Melissa explains.
After pitching themselves to the show, sending in a video to Kelly Clarkson and figuring out when they could fly out to California to take part in a taping, Melissa says she had a limited time to choreograph something for the girls to perform.
“I had less than two weeks to prepare,” Melissa says, “but we didn’t want to miss out on the opportunity."
The Emerald Belles will perform a routine to Kelly Clarkson’s own “Whole Lot of Woman” when the episode airs on Thursday. Kelly Clarkson also interviewed Melissa Page and two Carroll seniors for the show.
“It was a little nerve-wracking,” Melissa says. “But once I sat down, she was the nicest and just funny and genuine so it was OK.”
Melissa says that part of the excitement was hearing Kelly Clarkson talk about the Emerald Belles’ talent.
“It was just so surreal,” Melissa says. “That just doesn’t happen to high school teams for sure. It was really spectacular.”
And this time, instead of sharing the stage with other talented acts like in “America’s Got Talent,” the Emerald Belles were given the celebrity treatment.
“We even had a green room with our name on it! We had to take a picture in front of it after we saw that,” Melissa says.