Halfway through lunch, Simon Fuller, president of Virgin Records, rushed over.
In the past six months, while Simon Fuller was in charge of the operation of Viking Records, a large part of his energy was devoted to the operation of the "Pop Idol" reality show.
After the success of the Spice Girls, the public idol audition jointly organized by Virgin Records and Sky TV attracted more than 200,000 applicants in the UK alone.
This also caused "Pop Idol" to attract a lot of attention from the beginning. After several months of audition campaigns, in September, "Pop Idol" gained more than 5.24 million viewers just after it aired. As the competition progressed, the average viewership of the most recent episode had reached 7.91 million. This kind of ratings data may not be a big deal in North America, but it is definitely a phenomenon in the UK, where the population is only one-fifth of North America.
Therefore, although the first season will be finished in a few months, TV stations in many countries and regions have already contacted the producers of "Pop Idol", hoping to obtain the production authorization of this program. In North America, Eric has also decided to hand over the production rights to ABC.
Although Elizabeth has thought carefully, seeing the popularity of "Pop Idol", she also knows that it is impossible to get this show to FOX again. After all, Eric must also consider the thoughts of ABC executives. However, the girl unceremoniously took the Australian production authorization.
After having lunch with everyone, Eric and Simon Fuller came to visit the recording site of "Pop Idol", and then learned about the operation of Virgin Records.
In order to beat the jet lag, Eric returned to the villa on Kensington Garden Street early in the evening to rest.
Fly to Dublin, the capital of Ireland, early the next morning.
As a tax haven in Europe, the headquarters of Firefly Electronics' European branch is also located in Ireland.
Had a morning working meeting with the executives of Firefly Electronics European Branch, and walked around a Fireflyer component factory that had just started operation near Dublin. Returning to England in the afternoon, Eric rushed to Pinewood Studios again, and met with Tim Burton and others who were making "Sleepy Hollow" here.
After two days of non-stop busy work, I finally completed most of the schedule for this trip to the UK.
It wasn't until nightfall that Eric returned to downtown London by car.
In the black Mercedes-Benz compartment, Mayer sat beside Eric, quietly recording today's work log on the memo.
I don't know what happened, the car bumped a bit, and Eric sat up straight with his eyes closed all the way, looked at the lights on the street outside the car window, and asked the girl beside him, "Where are you? "
Mayer raised his head, looked at Eric with a slightly tired face, and said, "We'll be on Kensington Street soon, Eric, do you want to have dinner before going there?"
Eric raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It was already a quarter past seven, less than an hour before the Victoria's Secret show officially started. Although he was a little hungry and hesitated for a while, Eric still said: "Go directly to the Earl's Palace."
Mayer nodded, glanced at the memo on his knee, and said, "Also, Eric, I have already sorted out the scripts and novels you asked the British branch to collect and put them in the study yesterday afternoon."
Eric froze for a moment before remembering.
Last time at the "Midnight Ring" celebration party, Eric inadvertently remembered the "Two Smoking Barrels" that should have been released but actually had no shadow, and felt that it would be a pity if such an interesting movie disappeared , The next day, he casually ordered Caroline and Mayer to collect some of the latest novels and scripts here before they came to the UK this time.
Over the years, Eric has often asked people to do this on a whim. Many projects in the Firefly system were selected by Eric in this way, and most of them achieved good results. Therefore, although Eric just said it casually at the time and almost didn't remember it just now, Caroline and Mayer took it down as a very important thing.
Leaning back comfortably on the back of the chair, Eric said: "This one, watch it when you have time, and don't watch it if you don't have time."
At most, Queen Mai is missing one ex-husband, and she is not the savior of the world, so she can control so much.
Mayer smiled, and looked down at the memo. There were still a few things to report to Eric, but seeing the absent-minded look of the man beside her, she closed the book casually.
It was getting colder in London at night, but the Earl's Palace was full of heat.
Eric still directly entered the backstage of the big show from the internal passage, greeted the girls who were wearing pink pajamas or had already changed into the latest fashion and were nervously waiting to go on stage, and found rows and rows of dressing tables familiarly. Every Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, it is routine to prepare all kinds of energy-enhancing snacks for girls who have been on a diet for many days. This is the rule set by Eric himself.
After running around all day, Eric felt that now he was the one who just needed to replenish his energy.
Noticing that Eric sat down on an empty seat at the edge of a row of dressing tables, Quss Gauff, who was asking the stylist to do her hair, immediately made a pause gesture, and took the corner of the pink nightgown to get together When they came over, the other girls who were still in the make-up area saw that Quss Gauff had seized the opportunity, so they had to sit back in their seats regretfully, and greeted Eric from near or far.
Responding to the girls' greetings, Eric brought a box of nuts in front of him, turned to look at the baby-faced girl beside him, nodded and smiled, "Qusi, you are so beautiful tonight."
"Thank you," Quss Gauff dismissed the stylist behind her, and said with a sweet smile, "Eric, will you attend the premiere of "The Fast and the Furious" next month?"
Eric asked curiously, "Why did you suddenly ask this?"
"Loken invited me to go to Los Angeles next month to help her out." Quss Gauff put her face on one hand, with a delicate look: "If you go too, we can meet at that time."
Eric remembered that absurd night in New York, and said with a smile: "Kristana Loken?"
Eric felt that Christana Loken, who used to play the TX Terminator, was more suitable for the role of Letty, a wild female driver, than Michelle Rodriguez, so he arranged for her to go to Los Angeles to participate in the audition. Because of the good audition results and Eric's personal recommendation, the role finally landed on her smoothly.
"Yeah," Quss Gauff nodded, probably because she also thought of that night in New York, a little blush appeared on her fair and tender face.
"It depends on whether I have time at that time, but even if I can't go, you can come to Los Angeles to visit Pointe Manor."
Quss Gauff was a little excited immediately: "Really?"
"Of course," Eric said with a smile, "You can come here with Christana."
Quss Gauff immediately misunderstood Eric's meaning, and gave him a light, harmless look: "Eric, you are really bad."
"When you remind me like this, I really want to do something bad."
With a smile on the corner of Eric's mouth, looking at the tender baby-faced girl in front of him, he thought of Christana Loken's wild appearance. High offensive, weak, strong CP, and a beautiful Lily CP that straight men like to see.
Noticing Eric's malicious smile, Quss Gauff shrank her neck prettily, making people want to pinch that baby's face even more.
It's just that this charming atmosphere was quickly broken by someone: "Eric, why are you here now? Oh, you can't stay in the backstage and disturb the girls preparing for the catwalk this time, come on!" Get up, I have arranged a seat for you in front."
Eric looked at Emily's furious appearance, and raised the nut box in front of him: "Amy, I haven't eaten yet."
"My girls haven't eaten for three months." Emily gave him a blank look and said, "Get up and follow me."
Eric made a chatty face to Quss Gauff, picked up the box of nuts and stood up.
Emily reached out to snatch the nut box, but Eric dodged it easily, so she had no choice but to say: "Okay, but Eric, you should pay attention these two days, the paparazzi in London are more crazy than New York Now, I don't want any messy gossip to appear in the tabloids."
Eric felt a little aggrieved immediately. Maybe many people thought that he would be surrounded by many people when he came to London to participate in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, but in fact, he didn't touch the ground at all these two days. Over the years, Eric has also gradually realized that the life of many rich people is definitely not as luxurious and glamorous as ordinary people imagine, but most of the time they are busy like dogs.
"Emily, I don't have time even if I want to spread the news, do I?"
Emily is naturally aware of Eric's tense schedule for the past two days, and walked ahead in high heels, without looking back: "I know this, but others don't. Anyway, you should pay attention."
At this moment, the front desk of the big show was already full of audiences, and the atmosphere was extremely lively as it approached the opening.
Emily took Eric to an empty seat in the first row on the left side of the runway. Several guests who were talking around saw Eric appear and stood up one after another.
Because of the close relationship between the families of the two parties, Emily often puts on the air of a big sister in front of Eric, and Eric gradually gets used to this, and never shows any strong posture in front of Emily.
However, this does not mean that other people can behave casually in front of Eric. The guests who can be arranged in the front row of the big show are all famous figures from all walks of life in the UK, but seeing Eric appear, they all show a warm gesture of making friends actively.
Emily also took the initiative to introduce him: "Eric, this is Mr. Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, Virgin Group is one of our partners in this big show."
Eric naturally knew that Richard Branson, Virgin Records used to be an industry under the Virgin Group, so he reached out and shook his hand.
After Eric greeted Richard Branson, Emily continued to introduce other people: "Also, Eric, this is Mr. Charles Delevingne, he is a successful real estate Merchant, this is his wife, Pandora Stevens, Ms Stevens is the Buying Director of Selfridges."
Eric noticed that when Emily introduced Pandora Stevens, he gave him a wink, and realized that it was Emily who asked him to get in touch with him more.
He also understands Emily's intentions. Although Victoria's Secret will open flagship stores in major European cities such as London and Paris, other clothing brands under LTD will still enter the counters of major department stores. The position of Selfridges department store in the UK is second only to Harrods department store, which is the main luxury brand, which happens to be the main target of LTD's clothing brand.
After introducing several other guests, everyone sat down one after another, and Emily hurried backstage to preside over the overall situation.
Eric happened to be on both sides of Richard Branson and the Delevingne couple. There were still more than ten minutes before the opening. Everyone was very talkative, so naturally there was no shortage of topics.
After chatting for a few words, Eric saw a blond girl who was about twelve or thirteen years old and had a somewhat slim temperament running over from behind, shyly hugged the Delevingne couple beside her, and then leaned against Charles Delevingne looked at Eric with bright eyes.
"Eric," Charles Delevingne pushed the girl up with a smile, and introduced, "This is my daughter, Bobby, and she is your fan."
Eric smiled and stretched out his hand, and said, "Hello, Miss Delevingne."
The girl shook hands with Eric politely, and said, "Mr. Williams, you can call me Bobby."
"Oh, then you can call me Eric."
Feeling Eric's easy-going attitude, the girl also relaxed a lot. After rubbing against her father a few times, the Delevingne couple smiled and gave way to the side. Eric and Richard Bran on the other side Seeing this situation, Sen didn't mind moving aside to give the girl a vacant seat.
Sitting down beside Eric, Bobby Delevingne took out a notepad from the exquisite Prada handbag: "Eric, can you sign me?"
"Oh, of course," Eric nodded with a smile, took a notepad and a pen from Bobby Delevingne, skillfully wrote his signature and a word of blessing on the notebook, and then returned it to the girl .
"There is one more." Bobby Delevingne took back the notebook, but handed over a pink notepad: "This is my sister's. She didn't come over today, but she also wants your autograph."
Eric took it and opened it on his knees, and said, "What's your sister's name?"
"Carla," Poppy Delevingne said, "Carla Delevingne."
Eric hummed, smiled and signed again on the notepad, but couldn't help but start complaining in his heart, Bobby Delevingne, Cara Delevingne.
Poppy, Kara, Poppy, Kara...
If you don't consider other things, if you read it a few times, two Chihuahuas with big ears and innocent eyes will definitely appear in your mind.
Look at what kind of ghost names they gave their children, what a pair of parents who don't care about it.
How wonderful Hawaii is!