Divas

If you caught the second episode of Celebrity tonight, you know already I had to show my mug on screen, which is something I intended not to do when setting out on this adventure… however I don’t think any of us could have prepared for the curve ball thrown at us during that evening.

We literally waited up until filming time and then over an hour and a half beyond hoping with all hope that the two missing contestants would arrive. Ultimately, it became painfully obvious that wasn’t going to happen. The cast was always kept in a public chat and on SL voice while the crew communicated via skype so we wouldn’t impede on their conversations. As you can imagine, with two contestants missing it threw everything off the mark - everything! Our mentor didn’t have a full cast to mentor, and we couldn’t allow any contestant to skip a session… that would have been unfair to those who arrived. I remember Robustus asking everyone on the crew if we should just cancel or reschedule. It’s difficult scheduling everyone to begin with, with so many different calenders to accommodate, including those of very busy mentors who are professionals lending us their valuable time as well as a crew in two different countries - not to mention at all the fact that it would have put us a whole week behind in our own production schedule, it didn’t seem like an option.

The cogs were turning in my head, everyone was waiting, there was still no Micah and no Viktor - so in an impulsive moment I made a decision without really anyone knowing what I was doing. I told the cameramen to put the camera on the doors and told Trinity I was coming in. There was no time to explain, it was already very late. As I walked in I was watching chat and seeing them say “What is she doing!?” but fortunately they trusted me - Heaven knows why… but it seemed the most appropriate thing to do was put the fate of these two contestants in the hands of those who DID show up and who had been waiting for almost two hours for something to happen. It kept us on schedule, and as planned, we were one down, 5 to go…

Watch it here! Or, alternatively, in HD here http://blip.tv/file/2087819