The age cutoff for casting is 24.

V1man, Do you know of any cast members that tried out moe than once before finally getting on?

I don't know of any, but that is not something a cast member is going to boast about. I do know that at least two of the Fresh Meat cast were almost used during earlier RW/RR seasons. I don't have permission from those people to disclose their names, however. When I'm told something in confidence, it stays that way.

i thought Nick said something about being interviewed previously, and not just for Hollywood, but for a previous season.

V1: you have to expand your connections! I sometimes get to talk to these people (mostly the females b/c of what i do) but now that i post on this forum i'll try to be a little more curious, and find reasons to maybe talk more than once. I spoke to Danny from New Orleans once because i was sitting next to him in a shoe store trying on shoes. but New Yorkers generally don't like to annoy 'celebrities' on the street. It's too tourist.

I know Janelle was a semi-finalist twice before being selected, and Kelly for New Orleans was a finalist twice, and I'm pretty sure Parisa tried out for Denver and was selected for Sydney instead

Why not? What are they afraid of anyway? I'm pretty sure I know whom they are...

very interesting subject !

Well, good for you, I guess, if you know who they are.

The MTV challenges are cutthroat and always brutal psychologically. You never give an opponent an advantage beforehand, especially not by giving them any ammunition to allow someone to say in a challenge interview that you were a "loser" and an only an "afterthought" on their season of RW or RR. It's clearly just stupid game play. It is not a matter of being "afraid."