It was a no-brainer.

Kim DelGrosso did not want to fly her daughter, Ashly DelGrosso, to Los Angeles. Money was tight. She could hardly cover the cost of a plane ticket out of Utah. And besides, DelGrosso considered the LA audition a dead-end opportunity.

All six of her daughters had grown into highly skilled dancers, and the older girls were thinking about moving to England. This was in 2005, and Europe was the place to build a successful dance career, not the new celebrity competition show, “Dancing with the Stars.”

DelGrosso had co-opened Center Stage Performing Arts in Orem, Utah, just over a decade earlier.

Any reality dance competition series featuring non-dancers was a foolish idea. DelGrosso was certain it would tank.

“That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life,” Del

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