HARD TO BELIEVE IT’S BEEN 14 YEARS: ‘Spellbound’ star reflects on a Spelling Bee life. “When I was a speller, that was one thing you totally hid. I remember like not even wanting to tell people what I was doing over the weekend when I was competing in the regional spelling bee. It was that big of a liability. And now I see that, yeah, people want to be nerds. I think that’s great.”