If you take pleasure in seeing bad things happen to good people, you might want to catch MTV&rsquo;s new reality show &ldquo;Styl&rsquo;D&rdquo; this weekend. We have a feeling Brett Nelson is gonna get the ax.</p><p>Nelson, 22, who grew up in Lee&rsquo;s Summit, is one of four &ldquo;junior stylists&rdquo; working at MMA, a styling agency in Los Angeles. If you&rsquo;re a celeb who needs help figuring out what to wear to an awards show or a photo shoot or whatever, you&rsquo;ll probably consult a stylist.</p><p>&ldquo;Styl&rsquo;D&rdquo; (9 p.m. the next seven Sundays) is not supposed to be one of those shows in which someone is fired (or voted off) every week, but last Sunday&rsquo;s premiere let it slip that one of the apprentice stylists &mdash; who are competing for a contract at the agency &mdash; will be canned.</p><p>And the most likely candidate is Nelson, who made the apparently unforgivable mistake of agreeing to style a boy-band member on his own time &mdash; instead of sending the guy to his boss at the agency.</p><p>Nelson can&rsquo;t discuss whether he was fired or not. An online trailer shows a fair amount of footage of him, so perhaps it&rsquo;s one of those temporary firings that occur only on reality TV.</p><p>Anyway, when we talked to him by phone this week he sounded upbeat. After all, he and the others were selected from 200 applicants to be in MMA&rsquo;s program. Maybe more amazing is that, unlike the other junior stylists, Nelson didn&rsquo;t come from a design school or a prestigious internship.</p><p>After graduating from Lee&rsquo;s Summit High School (and working at Abercrombie & Fitch at Oak Park Mall and the Buckle at Independence Center), Nelson decided to visit a friend in L.A. That friend had a friend who worked on a cruise ship, so Nelson thought maybe he could get a gig there.</p><p>He&rsquo;d done some musical theater in Kansas City, including for Eubanks Productions. &ldquo;For some reason I thought there was a musical theater world in California,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s not.&rdquo;</p><p>So he ended up waiting tables and working in retail clothing stores. He was so broke at one point, he lived out of his car for a few months, even though he had three jobs.</p><p>&ldquo;I actually didn&rsquo;t know that until not too long ago,&rdquo; says his mom, Teri, who owns the Blades hair salon in Lee&rsquo;s Summit. &ldquo;I remember the night he called me and told me he couldn&rsquo;t take it anymore.&rdquo;</p><p>As a high school kid, his mother says, he developed a knack for dressing people, so it&rsquo;s no surprise to her that he landed in a styling agency. And &ldquo;it probably didn&rsquo;t hurt him being raised by a hairdresser.&rdquo; (Brett has a twin brother, Craig, who lives in Lee&rsquo;s Summit.) </p><p>Nelson&rsquo;s up-by-his-bootstraps story &mdash; along with charisma to spare and an eye for fashion (he prefers T-shirts and denim but likes putting others in &ldquo;crazy, Bob Mackie-type costumes&rdquo;) &mdash; probably got him in the door at MMA and MTV.</p><p>And before the boy-band incident, his prospects looked promising. Early on, senior stylists at MMA ranked Nelson No. 1 of the four assistants.</p><p> The first episode showed him asking Janna, one of his peers, what to do about the boy-bander. She urged him to take the job &mdash; then ratted him out.</p><p> &ldquo;I think I put a lot of trust into someone I didn&rsquo;t know real well, which is a Midwestern quality,&rdquo; Nelson says. &ldquo;I trust people way too fast.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Styl&rsquo;D&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t just about the junior stylists&rsquo; triumphs and travails on the job. The cameras also follow them home, so we get to see Nelson&rsquo;s &ldquo;dump&rdquo; of an apartment and meet his roommate. If it seems a little like &ldquo;The Real World,&rdquo; there&rsquo;s a reason: &ldquo;Styl&rsquo;D&rdquo; comes from the same production company.</p><p>&ldquo;There are so many shows out there that show the lavish lives of all these people sitting around drinking martinis and working with Karl Lagerfeld,&rdquo; Nelson says.</p><p>&ldquo;But there&rsquo;s such a nitty-gritty side of the fashion industry. To get where you want to be, you don&rsquo;t always start at the top. We&rsquo;re showing the real life of the fashion industry and kids wanting to do something they have a passion for.&rdquo;</p><p>Which is great, of course, unless you get fired in the second episode.