DanniRae
Primrose - Maybe your friend didn't have much to say for herself and was a bit quiet. If you watch it you will realise that the sewers have to have a bit of personality as well as sewing talent.
She is bright and vivacious, a chatterbox, works in the medical profession, wife, mother and passed a phone interview which lasted nearly an hour and involved some very difficult questions about various sewing techniques. She also passed a screen test.
Sadly, many of those chosen now are selected for their piercings, purple hair, ethnicity or whatever they identify as. Not for any sewing skills. I am a very basic sewer but when they are given instructions to make something and they do not even recognise simple terms then you know why they were chosen.