A few days later.
After finishing the housework and making sure she was fine, Ning Xi called Lin Zhizhi and made plans to go to the TV station to record a show tomorrow afternoon.
After Jiang Muye learned that she was going to record this episode, he was originally planning to parachute in as the male guest, but was firmly blocked by Lu Jingli using his boss's privileges.
Typical: if I can’t eat it, then you can forget about it too!
Finally, the male guest for this episode is still the one originally planned by the program team.
A third-rate male star with mediocre fame, who looks a bit chubby and often plays funny supporting roles.
The program "Beauty's Private Recipes" was very popular when it was first aired. Although most of the dishes cooked by the female stars were unpalatable, the fact that they were unpalatable was also a hot topic. The process of the male guests eating those dark dishes became the biggest joke and highlight, and the audience quite liked this kind of program design.
However, "Beauty's Private Kitchen" is a food program after all, but the production team has obviously deviated more and more in order to gain ratings. Gradually, the audience has become tired of the joke that the more beautiful the female stars are, the darker the dishes they cook.
There are even many radical viewers who directly criticized the program team for being rubbish and vulgar, questioning whether this is a food show at all, but simply a survival challenge show and a spoof show. It is really inhumane to force the male guests to eat all those disgusting foods just for the sake of ratings.
The fans of the male guests protested the most, and the most violent one was undoubtedly the one about Jiang Muye. Jiang Muye's fans almost blew up the program team's forum, and the official Weibo was also full of curses.
As more and more voices like this were heard, it became difficult to invite any male guests. The program team was later forced to make adjustments and invited some female celebrities who could cook.
But the tragedy is that in most cases, appearance and cooking skills cannot be achieved at the same time. There are very few female celebrities who can cook and look good.
Even if there are people who can cook it, the quality is definitely not that good, at best it is just so-so and edible. For variety shows, if the cooking skills are not outstanding enough, it is better to have terrible cooking skills!
However, if beauty is sacrificed for food, and the show's biggest attraction - beauty - is neglected, the ratings will be even worse.
In the end, there was really no other way, so the program team came up with a rather unethical idea: find a substitute for the beautiful guest!
What it means is to spend money to hire a chef to cook, and when the chef is cooking, only take pictures of the chef's hands, and at other times take pictures of the beautiful guest, creating the illusion that the beautiful guest is cooking.
This idea would have been a win-win situation if it hadn't been discovered. Tragically, it was discovered by the sharp-eyed audience. The ring on the female guest's hand appeared and disappeared, which was a complete insult to the audience's IQ!
At that time, the audience criticized the program team for fraud, and the female guest was also scolded badly.
Later, the program team could only go back to relying on appearance and spoofs to maintain the ratings. Although they couldn't fool the old audiences, they could still fool the new ones.
The ratings of food shows can’t be compared with other variety shows, but this show is still the most popular among similar shows…
The next afternoon, Ning Xi and her assistant Xiao Tao arrived at the TV station's studio on time.
Today, Ning Xi wore Ze Ling's latest spring dress with a one-shoulder neckline and floral patterns. In order to make it easier to cook, she tied her loose hair into a high ponytail. She looked full of the spring sunshine and youthful liveliness.