Kelli Finglass and Judy Trammell Open Up About Their Decades-Long Friendship (Exclusive)
The DCC director and choreographer share decades of memories and favorite trips
Key Takeaways
- Kelli Finglass and Judy Trammell have worked together for decades within the DCC.
- The pair have traveled the world together for shoots, tours and press trips.
- Finglass jokes she's more compatible with Trammell than with her own husband.
Kelli Finglass and Judy Trammell have been working with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (DCC) for decades. They’ve seen it all—travel issues, family expansions and so much more. Throughout that time, they’ve also seen each other grow, learn and become the best versions of themselves. And now, in an exclusive chat with Woman’s World to promote the new season of their Netflix reality show America’s Sweethearts, the two women are opening up about all of that and more. To read what they had to say about one another, keep scrolling.
Kelli Finglass and Judy Trammell open up about their friendship
Finglass, 61, director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and Trammell, 68, is the head choreographer. There was time, though, when they were both cheerleaders, but according to Trammell, “We didn’t cheer together. I was already the assistant choreographer when Kelli cheered, so we don’t have any of those memories to share where we cheered together, except once when I came back and put a uniform on after having a baby, and we did one performance together.”
Even so, the two women love and respect one another in ways that nobody else understands.
“What I love about Kelli is that she’s funny, and she always makes me laugh,” Trammell says with a smile. “She loves joking, but she’s serious when she has to be.”
As for Finglass, she loves that Trammell has and always will be on her speed dial.
“Judy has three children and five grandkids. I have two children, and Judy was always a few years ahead of me in the phases of life of children, but everything that I observed with her and saw her experience became my experiences, too. So we’ve also been in some way loyal mentors for each other, support systems for each other,” she explains. “There’s no one in the world that knows what our lives are like, except the two of us in this interview. It’s such a unique situation of being a coach and being in the excitement and the fast pace of the NFL, and now television entertainment, but at the same time, there’s very, very simple things that make me and Judy happy, like if we’re on a road trip and we see a restaurant and there’s bistro light bulbs, we’re going to the restaurant with the light bulbs and a patio.”
“We’re probably more compatible with each other than we are with our own husbands,” Finglass jokes.
Kelli Finglass and Judy Trammell talk about traveling together
Over the years, Finglass and Trammell have traveled all over the world together for swimsuit calendar shoots, USO tours, press trips and more. Each journey has been different, but according to Finglass, all of them felt like “a permanent girls trip.”
“We room together many times. We had an instance a couple years ago where the whole troop fell down escalators in an airport with suitcases, and it was a comedy,” she explains. “We’ve spent a lot of years in Mexico on photo projects. We love New York City, where we are right now. We’ve both been to Turkey, we’ve both been to South Korea, we’ve both been to Italy—Judy and I shared many Christmases in South Korea and the Philippines, and if I mentioned the Philippines and the officers’ quarters, I know you [Judy] knew exactly what was there waiting on us.”
“Cheetos,” Trammell answers without even thinking about it.
Adds Finglass, “Cheetos in the Philippines and the biscuits and gravy in South Korea at Osan Air Force Base. I’ll never forget those.”
As for their most recent trip, the duo went to New York City to appear on the Today show and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
“It was exciting, it was fun,” Finglass said of the Today show. “They’re amazing people. It feels like home when we show up there every time.”
Season 3 of America’s Sweethearts is available to stream on Netflix now.
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