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Editor’s note: The season finale of Sweet Home Alabama airs Thursday (Sept. 1) at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Sweet Home Alabama star Devin Grissom has made her final choice, yet she’s staying tight-lipped about who it is.

“At this point, we’re not allowed to be seen together or talk to each other very much,” Grissom tells CMT Insider. “It’s going to be interesting to see how it progresses once everything can be revealed, but I definitely feel like I found something special.”

The remaining finalists are Adam Moyer, a horse trainer from Tennessee, and Tribble Reese, a former quarterback who is a bartender and entrepreneur in Birmingham, Ala.

Because the series began with 20 men — 10 from the city and 10 from the country — that means Grissom has broken a few hearts along the way.

“A breakup is hard no matter what,” she says. “Even if it’s two people sitting alone in a room, it’s tough. It’s hard to break up with someone. I felt for these guys. They’re getting broken up with on national television. That makes it even harder for me, too, especially when some of the guys would come back and be like, ‘Please give me second chance!’ I was like, ‘Oh, that makes me hurt.’”

However, Grissom adds, “I definitely got good at it by the end. But it didn’t make it any easier. It was definitely still hard, but on some of the other dating shows like this, you give them a token. And the ones that don’t get it, it’s just like, ‘Sayonara, see you later.’ I think that’s definitely something unique about this show. It’s a lot more personal and really is a lot more real. I have real relationships with these guys, so I had to end them in a real, respectable way.”

Grissom only spent time with the men on dates or in group scenes and rarely saw them at all when the cameras weren’t rolling. Thus, she only began to discern the heated rivalries between her suitors when the series began airing. Most of the internal drama between the men takes place in the Fairhope, Ala., house where they all lived together.

“This process is such an unconventional way of dating,” she says, “so it amplifies everything. You’re getting into these relationships, and they’re progressing so much faster than any normal relationships would. You’re under such different circumstances if you’re dating two guys at once. You don’t want them to talk to each other. You don’t want them to know they’re dating the same girl. But all of mine were living in the same house together.”

Grissom says it was difficult to send home the first few contestants because she didn’t know them very well. But as the show progressed, the men’s personalities began to shine through.

“I love seeing how they are just being themselves,” she says. “I definitely formed relationships with all of them. Obviously, some of them are stronger than others. Some I formed were just friendships, but they’re still great friendships. I talk to pretty much every single one of these guys still.”

Looking back, she concludes, “Toward the end it got really hard for me. I’m not typically an emotional person, and on the [final] decision, I got teary. I cried, for sure. It was tough. There were definitely real relationships there.”

Courtesy CMT

Great article about Cody Harris after SHA! Part of the article included below…for more follow the link:

ROBERTSDALE, Ala. – Life for Cody Harris these days is somewhat of a whirlwind.

A planned face-to-face interview had to be done over the phone on Tuesday because of another commitment.

It’s been about two months since Harris, 22, left filming of CMT’s reality dating show “Sweet Home Alabama,” but he has yet to adjust to life outside the show.

“It’s been really crazy,” he said. “You have no idea how crazy it’s been.”

Set in Point Clear and filmed primarily at various locations in Baldwin County, “Sweet Home Alabama” brings country girl Devin Grissom of Tuscaloosa to the Gulf Coast to meet 20 potential suitors, 10 from the South dubbed “Country Guys” and 10 from the North and West dubbed “City Guys.”

Harris a native and resident of Robertsdale, was billed on the show as a “true cowboy,” and indeed, he has been around the cattle industry all of his life. He left Robertsdale High School his junior year to devote himself to rodeo fulltime and received a high school diploma through the Central Christian School homeschool program.

The show’s producers discovered Harris through the Professional Rodeo Association website. While they did not find a contact number for Harris, they were able to contact someone at the Summerdale Saddle Shop, who was able to put them in touch with him, Harris said.

“I really didn’t want to do it at first,” he said. “They contacted me a couple of times and I said no.”

Over 700 young men auditioned for the show, which airs every Thursday on the CMT network. While he never officially auditioned, Harris said, he was contacted one final time.

“I was told that the spot was mine if I wanted it,” he said, “so I decided to go for it.”

And, Harris said, he has no regrets about his decision, even though he was late arriving for the first day of filming. At 10:30 a.m. on the first day of scheduled filming in Point Clear, Harris was hundreds of miles away in Fort Smith, Ark., participating on the rodeo circuit.

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