The two cars shuttled back and forth on the narrow asphalt road in East Hampton until they stopped outside a manor near the sea in the south of East Hampton. Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista respectively Get out of the two cars, walk outside the gate of the manor and ring the doorbell. After waiting patiently for a while, a woman's voice came asking.
After notifying their names, the gate automatically opened to the left and right, and the two of them returned to the car again and drove the car into the manor.
Go around the S-shaped concrete corridor and stop in front of the European-style luxury villa.
A middle-aged maid came over, waited for the two to get off the car, and said politely: "Miss Crawford, Miss Evangelista, please come with me."
The two girls followed the maid with their satchels. Cindy Crawford asked the maid, "Where's Eric?"
"Mr. Williams is painting Easter eggs with his wife and the children," the maid replied, leading the two girls into the living room of the villa, ordering another younger maid to help them make coffee, and then walked towards the backyard.
When Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista heard the maid's words, their expressions moved slightly, and they looked at each other, but moved away at the same time.
Ever since Eric notified them to come to New York, the two realized that the position of host of "America's Next Top Model" was likely to be created between the two of them. The secret smell of gunpowder between them became stronger, and at this time they only maintained a superficial politeness.
However, the maid's undisguised words made the distance between the two women inexplicably narrowed again.
Seeing the little maid making coffee not far away, Cindy Crawford leaned over and whispered, "How much do you think this manor costs?"
"Twenty million, who knows, we can't afford it anyway," Linda Evangelista said casually, but she remembered what she saw when she drove into the manor just now. The front yard is only five or six acres in size, and I don't know what's going on behind it, according to the layout of Linhai. There should be a private sandy beach. Calculated, it definitely exceeds 20 acres, which is equivalent to an area of eight hectares.
Although the two of them are considered high-income class. But such a manor, even if you bite your teeth and buy it, you will definitely not be able to support it. What's more, the manor in East Hampton is not something you can buy if you want. The United States has a unique system of neighborhood autonomy. The change of ownership of a property requires not only the buyer and the seller to agree on the price, but the buyer also needs the approval of other residents in the neighborhood where the property is located. The residents of East Hampton are either wealthy businessmen or politicians and celebrities. It is not so easy for the two of them to squeeze into this circle.
The maid brought coffee to the two and asked them politely if they had any other invitations. Seeing the two shaking their heads, they walked away.
The living room fell into a brief silence. Cindy Crawford took a sip of coffee, turned her head to look at the glass door leading to the backyard, and thought about it. He gave Linda Evangelista a look, stood up and walked lightly over there.
Linda Evangelista felt that Cindy Crawford's actions were a bit inappropriate, but she hesitated for a while, and couldn't hold back the strong curiosity in her heart, so she got up and walked over.
The two stood side by side behind the glass door, looking out towards the backyard.
The first thing that catches the eye is a swimming pool, which is a standard configuration in many American gardens. Looking further into the distance, there is a white concrete road and a pocket children's playground on one side. The other one is the lawn. There is a table on the lawn, with all kinds of small and colorful objects piled up on it. Six or seven figures, big and small, surround the table. The maid who had just greeted them stood by, and Eric, who was wearing casual sportswear, was leaning over the table, kissing the woman and child opposite.
It is no secret to many people that Eric already has a child, but it is the first time for both of them to see each other.
According to past experience, both Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista felt that. Eric would definitely keep the matter of illegitimate children secret, and even like many billionaires, he would not admit the identity of illegitimate children at all. But the scene in front of them completely subverted their cognition. Even though they were far away, they could realize from the intimate interaction between Eric and the child that he was really a competent father. .
After being in a trance for a moment, Cindy Crawford looked back, glanced at the luxurious European-style villa beside her, and sighed softly: "It's really frustrating. We work hard all our lives, so we might as well have a child."
As soon as the words fell, Cindy Crawford suddenly woke up and glanced at Linda Evangeline Star. As soon as the two pairs of beautiful eyes met, Cindy Crawford noticed Linda Evange Gorinstad's eyes flickered away, and she suddenly realized that the same thoughts as her must have appeared in her heart, which made her suddenly relieved, and she was no longer so guilty.
Not daring to peek any further, the two went back to the sofa and sat down in silence.
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On the lawn in the backyard, Eric was holding Hawaii and painting on the eggs. Hearing the maid's report, Virginia, who was sitting across from her, immediately rolled her eyes: "You are so busy, you haven't finished painting a basket of eggs. , ran out several times."
"I also want to stay with you at home for a while, so I put my work here, but I promise, this is the last time, and no one will disturb me tomorrow Easter," Eric smiled and let go of Hawaii , Seeing Virginia still looking sullen, she got up and put her hands on the table and leaned over her head: "Come on, baby, let Daddy kiss."
Having said that, Eric leaned towards Virginia's face.
"You bad guy, you took advantage of me again," Virginia said, still turning her face to let Eric kiss her, and then raised Kevin in her arms.
Eric also kissed his son's tender face, retracted his body, and Emma next to him jumped up and came over: "Dad, Dad, I want to kiss too."
"Okay," Eric kissed Emma on the cheek as well, and moved closer to Joanna, intending to be impartial.
When it was Hawaii's turn, the little girl quickly blinked her big eyes a few times. It seemed that this was a good opportunity to get rid of the boring behavior of painting eggs in front of her.
Allowing Eric to kiss her on the cheek, the little girl stretched out her small hand and tugged at Eric's sleeve: "Daddy, can I go with you to meet the guests?"
Before Eric answered, Joanna rubbed Hawaii's little head and said with a smile: "This is not okay, baby, Dad has very important things to talk about."
Hawaii recalled Emma's appearance when she acted like a baby, and pulled Eric's sleeve and shook it again. The voice was soft and tender, and the eyes flickered: "Dad, I'm just a child and I don't understand anything. I won't disturb you talking about things."
"Uh..." Eric showed a speechless expression when he heard Hawaii's words.
The scene was silent for half a second, and Virginia, Joanna, and Eva laughed almost simultaneously.
Eva patted the table twice happily, reached out and hugged Hawaii, and rubbed the little girl's face for a while: "Haha. Hahaha, don't you think that sentence just now exposed yourself, little fairy."
"Oh, Aunt Aiwa is really annoying, don't rub her cheeks, otherwise I will dislike you together with my mother," Hawaii threatened in a coquettish voice, grabbing her aunt's arm.
"Wow, this threat is really too ruthless, let Aunt Eva rub it again."
"Yeah. Let go, or I'll bite you."
"Okay, okay, stop making trouble, Xia Xia, come to mom, don't bother dad."
After laughing for a while, Joanna came out to smooth things over, blasted her sister away, held her daughter in her arms, and waved to Eric. Let him be busy.
After painting eggs for a while, Eric got some dye on his body, changed his clothes in a hurry, and washed his hands again. Then came the living room.
"Cindy, Linda, I'm so sorry, I can only let you come here in person." Eric hugged the two girls and said.
"It's okay, we're not too busy anyway." Cindy Crawford replied with a smile.
Eric nodded and said, "Come with me to the study, let's talk there."
When he came to the study room, Eric took out two prepared documents from the bookshelf, sat down at the desk, looked at the two women who were sitting opposite with a little apprehension, and said with a smile: "Don't worry now, originally there was only " There is a production plan for a show on America's Next Top Model, but I recently had an idea, so you both get jobs."
Cindy Crawford put away some of the messy thoughts she had just had, cheered up and said, "Eric, you mean, Firefly plans to make two fashion reality shows?"
"Yes," Eric nodded, and said, "Among the five of you, I think only you two are more suitable. Now there is only one question left, which is which job you two will accept."
Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista looked at each other, neither spoke, waiting for Eric to continue.
"You already know about the "America's Next Top Model" project, so let me talk about another idea first. This is also a talent show, but the object of the competition is no longer a model, but a fashion designer, so, The tentative title of this show is "Project Runway."
Linda Evangelista heard the words: "Eric, "America's Next Top Model" is better, but the fashion design is too professional, will anyone like to watch it?"
Eric didn't answer, but asked, "Have you two ever thought about starting a personal brand with your own name?"
"Well, yes, it's just been too busy." Cindy? Crawford replied.
"I thought about being a perfume brand," Linda Evangelista said with a shrug, apparently not having a very pleasant experience with that idea.
Eric said: "That's right. In the current entertainment industry, just like you, people with a little bit of fame like to launch their own personal brands. Then, for more ordinary people, they must have After thinking like this, this is the audience base of our program. Of course, another part of the audience base is urban women who are very sensitive to fashion, because "Project Runway" will be broadcast on Lifetime TV station under the AE TV network. The main target audience for television is young women."
"Then, I... can we take a look first?" Cindy Crawford pointed to the document in Eric's hand and asked tentatively.
According to the two documents, Eric said: "These have nothing to do with the program, but some rough budget plans for the project, and the specific format of the program, you still need to think about it yourself."
Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista became puzzled again. Didn't Eric let them be the hosts? Why did they sound more like producers
"It's like this," Eric continued, "I originally had some ideas about "America's Next Top Model," but now I've changed my mind. I'm going to give these two projects to you two. I am only in charge of overall control."
"Eric, I don't quite understand," Cindy Crawford said. It's not that she didn't understand, but she couldn't believe it.
Eric said: "You must understand, what I mean is that the two of you will be the host and producer of "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway" respectively."
Although Linda Evangelista is very keen on the title of producer, she is aware of her abilities and said, "Eric, I... don't seem to know what to do at all."
"Then, let's talk about your compensation first." Eric smiled and said, "As the producers of the two programs, you will receive 10% of the net profits of "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway". As for how much of this 10% you can get in the end, it depends on whether you make the program well enough."
"Eric, do we need to participate in the investment?" Cindy Crawford asked, his eyes lit up.
"Of course not, Firefly will provide a production budget of 20 million US dollars for each project, and you don't need to participate in the investment."
"Then what do we need to do?" Linda Evangelista was also inspired by the 10% net profit sharing. Although Eric said that he would completely entrust the two projects to them, as long as he Linda Evangelista knows that the risks of these two programs will be reduced to a very low level. Even if the ratings and profits of "Survivor" are not as horrible, the commercial returns are definitely very objective. of.
"That's the point," Eric smiled, and said, "Don't think that the 10% profit share will be taken easily. The reason why I entrust these two projects to you is mainly because of my respect for the fashion industry." I don't know much, and you two have been in this circle for so many years, you are familiar with all the rules, and you have enough vision and experience. Therefore, although Firefly will provide some staff, as for the professional creative team, But you need to build it yourself." (To be continued.) xh:.254.198.194