Chapter 123 New Variety Show, New Niece
Ebony received a call from Dolores on the third day after she had returned to Sluvale.
Dolores had arranged a new variety show for her.
Ebony was stunned when he saw the screenshot sent through WhatsApp, "A talent show?"
Dolores said, "The part that you danced with Alfredo a while ago was popular on the Internet, wasn't it? After that, several talent shows would like you to join. Of course, we will definitely not go as a participant, but this is different, and you are to be a celebrity recommender."
Ebony did not understand, "What?"
Dolores said, "In the show, in addition to four mentors and a hundred participants, three celebrities will be invited to be celebrity recommenders who will each represent one of the three teams. In the show, the eliminated participants will have the opportunity to join the teams of the celebrity recommenders, and then during the performance, the recommenders' teams will draw lots to challenge the teams that make it to the next round. If the challenge is successful, the participants in the recommenders' teams will be revived and continue to participate in the competition."
Ebony roughly understood, "Does it mean that if someone is eliminated, I will take her in, and then help her to challenge those who are not eliminated, and if the challenge is successful, then she will be resurrected?"
"That's what it means."
Dolores said, "It's very easy, and you don't have to do anything. The production team of the show will arrange for a dance teacher and a singing teacher to teach them, and you'll just have to say some words of encouragement."
It really did not sound difficult to Ebony.
She asked, "Then how much is my pay for one episode?"
Dolores snorted, "I know you care about this. They'll give you eighteen thousand per episode. After the company takes its share, you can get around a hundred thousand for twelve episodes."
Wow, a hundred thousand!
Ebony agreed quickly, "Okay, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go!"
This talent show was called The Shining Light.
Ebony arrived in the recording city the day before the recording.
In order to maintain a sense of mystery, the production team did not let the celebrities meet in advance.
They said it was to film their reactions when they saw each other while they were recording the next day.
Ebony laughed, "So? There are people I know among the mentors or the recommenders?"
The crew nodded, "You definitely know."
The next day, Ebony found when she got into the set that there were indeed people whom she knew.
The idiot, Victor Torres, was sitting on the mentor's seat!
When Ebony passed by in front of the mentor's seat, she saw that Victor Torres was also looking at her in surprise.
Obviously, he did not expect her to be there either.
Ebony shook her head; she had already guessed the trick of the show.
Ebony thought at first that Victor Torres was enough to "surprise" her.
It turned out that a bigger surprise was yet to come.
Later, several mentors and recommenders came in.
Then, Ebony saw Belinda Bowman who appeared last.
Belinda smiled and walked to the front of the stage.
No one had ever expected she would come to this show.
The mentors and recommenders all exploded in an instant.
Everyone rushed up and hugged Belinda.
The cameraman seized the time to shoot.
At the same time, there was another camera dedicated to Ebony.
Ebony and Belinda had participated in Amazing Tour, but they had hidden conflicts due to Lloyd's choice in the show.
Ebony and Victor had participated in two shows together.
However, Ebony had not been nice to Victor in both shows.
Putting the three of them on one screen was already enough to make the show appear in at least five hot searches when the first episode was launched.
There were so many talent shows nowadays that a show would not be popular if there was no hype about it.
Ebony did not feel like saying anything when she saw Belinda.
But she did not expect that there were more surprises.
Then, when a hundred participants came out, Ebony saw surprisingly that Lorena Gibson was standing at the center of the hundred people.
Lorena, like Victor, did not expect to see Ebony here at all.
Lorena's looked horror-struck.
Ebony felt a little helpless instead.
Defeating Lorena was as easy as crushing an ant, and she was tired of it.
After everyone arrived, the show began, and the first stage performance of the participants began.
A hundred participants seemed a lot, but their performances were basically group dances, so it would not take much time to watch them all.
The evaluation of the first stage performance had nothing to do with the recommenders.
It was basically the mentors who were talking.
Ebony was idling until a participant performed a solo dance.
The participant was a girl with short hair who dressed in a unisex style and looked cool.
She danced well and exhilarated several waves on the scene.
After her performance, Belinda first commented, "Stella, is it? Excellent. I think your dancing skills are already of professional level, but you're only sixteen years old, so I think you are awesome."
Stella did not speak, nor did she say "thank you". She just stand there calmly.
Belinda felt a little awkward.
She looked at Victor beside her.
Victor said, "Did you make up the dance just now? It's interesting."
Stella picked up the microphone and said coldly, "I didn't make it up myself, but I learned it from watching Miss Gibson's dance video some time ago."
Ebony's name was suddenly mentioned.
Everyone turned to look at her at once.
Ebony nodded and smiled on her seat at the girl on the stage, "I recognized it too. You imitated it very well."
A blush suddenly appeared on Stella Gibson's initially indifferent face.
She lowered her head, concealing her unnatural inner joy.
Stella was graded B finally.
Of the four mentors, Belinda graded her B, Victor graded her C, and the other two mentors graded her A. After summing up, Stella got grade B.
After the grades came out, the other two mentors looked at Belinda and Victor in unison.
Belinda smiled warmly, "I'm not a professional, so I don't dare to grade randomly."
But didn't you say that she danced professionally?
The two mentors had their own ideas in mind, but they did not talk much.
Victor was outspoken.
He said to Stella, "I don't think this dance suits you."
After that, he shouted, "Next."
After a while, it was Lorena Gibson's turn.
Lorena danced with four other girls in a group dance. She was in the central position.
The whole dance was similar to radio calisthenics.
After coming down, the four mentors all gave Lorena the grade A sign.
Lorena got into team A without any suspense.
Ebony laughed when she saw this.
This was the so-called talent show royal family.
The day's recording finished at nine o'clock in the evening.
When Ebony was about to leave, Victor suddenly stopped her.
"I have something to tell you," Victor blocked Ebony at the backstage and said straight to the point.
Ebony put both hands in her pockets, looked at him coldly, and said coldly, "I'm sorry, but I don't want to talk to a dog."
Victor's face was ashen, and he asked suddenly, "You do it on purpose, don't you? Whenever I'm with Lorena, you'll surely come. You pretend like you don't care about me, but in fact, you try your best to be by my side. You just want to get my attention, don't you?
Do you really want to see me so much, Ebony?"
Ebony was speechless.
She looked at Victor who was in front of her.
She was silent for a long time, and asked curiously, "What do I want to see you for? This circle is so big; it will definitely reach my ears if you die. Whether I see you or not, I won't send you a wreath, don't you know?"