Chapter 58 I Can Laugh for A Year
After sending it, it took two minutes before someone responded.
Rita Obrien: [?]
Ebony Gibson: [The next show will be without me.]
Teri Holland: [?]
Jacob Silva: [?]
Du Lan: [Is it that bitch who did it?]
Rita Obrien: [Damn, Teri was swearing????]
Ebony Gibson: [@Teri, the reason was not told. I guess they might not want to increase my pay, so they replaced me.]
Jacob Silva: [Yes, Ebony has become popular now. It stands to reason that her pay should increase, but has it been increased a lot? Generally speaking, it should be about thirty percent higher.]
Ebony Gibson: [Maybe it has been increased too much, and the production team is unwilling to pay.]
Ebony Gibson: [My manager said it was at least five times.]
Jacob Silva: [...]
Teri Holland: [...]
Rita Obrien: [...]
Jacob Silva: [Seven hundred and fifty thousand? Yes, it's a little expensive...]
Ebony Gibson: [? Fifteen thousand dollars.]
Jacob Silva: [?]
Teri Holland: [??]
Rita Obrien: [???]
Ebony Gibson: [It used to be three thousand dollars per episode, and now I want to increase it to fifteen thousand per episode, but the production team refused.]
Jacob Silva: [?]
Teri Holland: [?]
Rita Obrien: [?]
Teri Holland: [You, you...why did you accept it for three thousand dollars previously?]
Ebony Gibson: [I was short of money at that time.]
Teri Holland: [No matter how short of money you were, you shouldn't have accepted it at this price...But I won't be in the next episode either. My manager has already talked about the termination of the contract.]
Jacob Silva: [?]
Teri Holland: [@Jacob, you and Lloyd are the only ones left. Good luck for you guys.]
Jacob Silva: [???]
On the other side of the city, in a luxurious and spacious high-end apartment, Lloyd was naked from the waist up, with a bath towel around his waist. He heard his phone ringing on the bed just as he came out of the bathroom.
He walked over, picked up his phone, and glanced at the messages in the WhatsApp group.
His expression turned cold gradually while he was reading them.
After a while, he exited WhatsApp and made a phone call.
Ebony was not depressed because she could not participate in the show.
The production team felt that she was not worth fifteen thousand dollars, and nothing could be done about it if they wanted to replace her!
She told it in the group only because everyone got along very well just like friends during this time. Since she would not be going for the next episode, she felt that she should tell her friends.
Ebony Gibson put this behind her after informing about it in the group.
Ebony had forgotten about this in the next few days of filming, and it was Director Bass who said suddenly to her, "Ebony, are you going to the variety show tomorrow?"
"No," Ebony, who was sitting on a stool reading her script, looked up and said, "I won't be going from this episode onwards."
The director was taken aback, "Hey, why aren't you going? I see that the show is very popular!"
Ebony shrugged, "There was some disagreement on the renewal of the contract, so I stop going."
The director did not know about the details, so he said, "If you're not going, then I'll schedule your scenes tomorrow, okay?"
Ebony raised her hand and made an "ok" gesture.
Moses Smith, who was sitting next to her, heard these words. He hesitated for a while, then took out his mobile phone and sent a message to his brother.
Carlton had forced Moses to inform him immediately if there was any news about Ebony.
Moses did not think it was possible for Carlton to date Ebony though!
But after all, Carlton was his full brother, so he could only help him for the time being!
The next day, Ebony did not have any scenes until noon.
She slept in, and after getting up, she went downstairs for breakfast after ten o'clock.
There were very few people in the cafeteria at this time. She took some soy milk and fritters, and found a relatively remote place to sit down.
Not long after she sat down, a man and a woman came behind her.
Ebony did not take it seriously at first, but she suddenly heard the man scolding irritably, "Damn, why wasn't there Ebony Gibson?!"
Ebony was taken aback and she turned to look.
The man and woman were looking at the phone and did not notice her.
The woman also frowned and said, "Why didn't Ebony Gibson come? Hey, Teri Holland was gone too! Damn, why wasn't Lloyd there as well?!"
Ebony Gibson was stunned.
She knew Teri was not there, but Lloyd was not there too?
The two seats were not too far apart. Ebony heard the muffled voice of the production team's director issuing from their mobile phone, "Welcome back, Clay..."
"What? I didn't believe it when they said Lloyd was only standing in for Clay Ramsey who was hospitalized, but it turned out to be true. Now that Clay Ramsey has recovered, Lloyd will probably not be on the show from now on," the woman at the back said disappointedly.
"Lloyd, Ebony Gibson, Rita Obrien and Teri Holland were all gone. What else is there to watch in this stupid show? I don't want to watch it anymore," the man turned off the phone irritatingly and stopped watching.
Ebony turned back and continued eating her breakfast.
After a while, the man and the woman left. Ebony thought for a moment, took out her phone, and opened her Twitter.
It stuck at the login page for a long time, and finally prompted that the password was wrong.
Sure enough, her password had been changed again.
Ebony cracked the password in twenty seconds.
After logging in, she was about to search for the official blog of the show when she saw the entry #Amazing Tour members reshuffle# appearing at the top of the current hot searches.
She clicked it.
She saw that the latest tweet was posted ten minutes ago.
It was posted by a famous verified variety show account, saying that the regular guest lineup of Amazing Tour would be reshuffled from this episode onwards, and Clay Ramsey would be back while Lloyd Vasquez, Teri Holland, and Ebony Gibson would all quit.
Ebony clicked the comment section.
The most popular comment was the single word -- [Quit.]
This comment had been liked over twenty thousand times.
Ebony scrolled down. The comments below were basically all saying they would quit watching the show!
Someone even stated the latest statistics, saying that when the last three episodes of Amazing Tour were on the air, the lowest number of viewers watching the live broadcast at the same time was fourteen millions.
Today, the number of viewers did reached thirty millions at the beginning of the broadcast, but when they knew just now that the guests had been replaced the viewers quitted watching right away!
The number of viewers now watching the show at the same time had hit a new low. There was only five million viewers left, and the number was getting lower and lower.
After Ebony had been watching for a while and had roughly grasped the situation, she exited Twitter.
She entered the WhatsApp group again and saw a message from Rita five minutes ago: [@Lloyd, you've quitted too?]
Lloyd only replied after a while: [Yeah.]
Rita Obrien: [Hahaha, I watched the live broadcast. Jacob was almost crying, hahahaha.]
Teri Holland: [image] [image] [image]
Ebony clicked on the images sent by Teri and saw that they were all screenshots of the live broadcast, in which Belinda Bowman's face turned as dark as the bottom of a pan when she heard that Lloyd was not going for the episode.
Teri Holland: [Hahahahahaha, I can laugh for a year at these!]
When Ebony looked at Belinda's expression which was as sour as a slop bucket in the images, she could not help but snorted and laughed too.