Chapter 57 Don't You Think She Looks Familiar?
"Yes, Uncle Darryl, she is Ebony Gibson," Carlton said cautiously.
Darryl remained silent.
A trace of suspicion flashed in his cold and sharp eyes, and he stared at the girl on the stage for a long time.
At this moment, the girl suddenly turned around and left.
"Where is she going?" he asked immediately.
Carlton explained, "She seems to be a dance partner, and she went off the stage after finished dancing. That man is the contestant, and he's waiting for the judges' comments."
Darryl frowned.
Carlton said tentatively, "Uncle Darryl, she..."
"Where is the backstage?"
Carlton was stunned, "Huh?"
Ebony went backstage and changed her clothes. When she came out after changing, she saw on the TV broadcast that Alfredo was still listening to comments from the judges.
Ebony did not watch any further. She zipped up her thick clothes, turned around and walked out of the dressing room.
Just as she went out, she bumped into someone at the doorway.
It was a man in his thirties, with deep eyebrows, handsome features, and a look of cold sternness.
Ebony raised her eyebrows. She did not know him. She turned around to leave.
The man suddenly grabbed her arm.
Ebony took a quick step back, freed her arm, and looked coldly at the man.
Darryl was also stunned for a moment. He looked at his hand in mid-air, frowned, put his hand down, and looked at the girl in front of him, "Ebony Gibson?"
Ebony said coldly, "Yes, what do you want with me?"
Darryl was speechless.
This girl seems a little fierce, he thought.
Ebony sneered. She was used to men who were good-looking outside but filthy inside.
She was sure that a man who touched a girl without knowing each other was not a good person.
After Ebony finished her sentence, she saw that the man was frowning and looking at her silently, so she said, "Get out of my way! Don't you know you're an eyesore?"
Darryl knitted his brows tightly.
But Ebony walked past him and left.
It was not until Ebony had disappeared completely that Carlton got out cautiously and stood beside Darryl, "Uncle?"
Darryl glanced at him with a sullen face, "You said she is filming with Moses now?"
Carlton nodded hesitantly, "...Yes."
Darryl looked down and stared at the direction where the girl disappeared, "Don't you think she looks familiar?"
Carlton said immediately, "Yes, she looks familiar. Do you think she looks like your future niece-in-law, which is my wife?"
Darryl was speechless.
Carlton muttered, "I wonder if she would be my girlfriend if I gave her a Ferrari."
Darryl slapped Carlton on the back of his head, "You need a good spanking!"
Ebony walked to the gateway of the TV station and saw that Dolores and another girl were already waiting for her there.
She walked over only to find that there was something wrong in the way they were looking at her.
Ebony scratched her face, "What's wrong?"
Dolores was silent for a while before she said, "Get in the car."
The three of them got into the car. Kelly sat in the passenger seat.
Ebony sat alone in the back seat with her legs crossed.
Dolores was annoyed to see her smug air in the rearview mirror.
She asked, "When did you learn street dance? Why isn't it written in the company's talent file?"
Ebony said while shaking her legs, "I didn't know it before."
"When did you learn it?"
Ebony thought for a while, "Half an hour ago?"
Dolores scolded, "Tell the truth!"
Ebony said innocently, "I really just learnt it half an hour ago. Didn't you see me watch the video then? I watched it several times, and was learning it very seriously."
Dolores frowned, "Forget it, forget it if you don't want to tell, but thanks to you, Alfredo made it to the next round, and he got grade A. He had a great start."
When Ebony heard this, she put down her legs immediately, leaned forward, and asked tentatively, "So, will I get any money for this?"
"Pfft," Kelly could not help but laughed out loud in the passenger seat.
Dolores said angrily, "Money again! All you care about is just money. It's almost the end of the month, and you're about to get your salary!"
Ebony fell back to her seat disappointedly, "It's not much. My base salary is only three hundred dollars."
Dolores glanced at her, "The money for Amazing Tour will also be paid with your salary, and it will add up to three or four thousand."
Ebony straightened up at once, "Three or four thousand?"
Dolores said, "You've participated in three episodes. The agreed pay for one episode was three thousand dollars. Now after three episodes, it's nine thousand dollars. After the company takes half of it, and after it's taxed, you can still get more than three thousand dollars."
Ebony was contented, "That's fine!"
Kelly could not help but said, "Only three thousand dollars for one episode? I heard that the pay of other guests for a single episode were all above ten thousand, and Lloyd's pay was even higher, which was above a hundred thousand."
Dolores said, "She was the caretaker, who was responsible for miscellaneous tasks, and she was replacing Alfredo, so the agreed pay was a discounted one, and that's the amount."
"But isn't Ebony famous now? "Everyone in the company knew now that Ebony was going to be super famous with her knife skill challenge video in Amazing Tour.
"Well," Dolores said, "so starting from the next episode, the pay will be increased. The PR department is already negotiating with the production team of Amazing Tour."
The manager came just as Dolores arrived at the company after she drove Ebony back.
"What? They want to replace her?"
The manager looked very unhappy as well, "We don't know why, but the production team of Amazing Tour said that she must be replaced, and Ebony would not have to go for the next episode."
Dolores's face was so gloomy that it seemed to be dripping ink, "Why?!"
The manager was silent.
Dolores looked at her, "Do you know the reason? Why exactly? Was the asked pay too high?"
"The pay asked was definitely not high," The manager looked at Dolores and sighed. "It seemed to be because of Belinda Bowman."
"Belinda Bowman?"
"You should have noticed that Belinda Bowman had been actively participating in activities lately for the nomination of the Goody Award. She had been coupled with Lloyd Vasquez since a long time ago. Many viewers were waiting for the pairing of Belinda and Lloyd in the previous episode, but Lloyd chose to be in a group with Ebony in the end. As soon as this episode ended, Belinda's manager put pressure on the production team to replace her. If Ebony appeared in Amazing Tour again, Belinda would not participate."
"I don't care whether she wants to participate or not!" Dolores was furious, "Does this woman think she is the queen, and everyone has to listen to her?"
The manager shook her head, "That's what happened anyway. The production team chose Belinda Bowman at the expense of Ebony Gibson. Find a time and talk to Ebony."
Ebony knew on that night that she had been replaced in Amazing Tour.
She fell back on the hotel bed after hanging up the call from Dolores. She thought for a moment, took out her mobile phone, and entered the five-person WhatsApp group. The last message in the group was sent on the night when the group was established. Ebony hesitated for a while, but typed in it all the same.
Ebony Gibson: [I was replaced.]