Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 230 Do it at your own risk

 “Ms. Anna is here!”

 At around eight o'clock, Anna arrived in front of the hotel. The media reporters in the lobby were like mice who discovered the cake. In less than ten seconds, they all swarmed around Anna and asked her questions one after another.

“Ms. Anna, has Mr. Baker gotten up? Can he accept our interview?”

“Ms. Anna, yesterday a reporter photographed you entering the hotel with a mysterious lady. Who is that person?”

“Ms. Anna, it is said that Link and Miss Knightley had a very happy chat at the Dior fashion show. Is the mysterious girl Keira Knightley?”

The reporters held their microphones high and rushed to ask questions, each with a louder voice.

 “Everyone, please be quiet!”

Under the protection of Bob and the hotel security personnel, Anna walked up to the steps and said, "I want to explain three things here: First, Miss Taylor arrived in London at noon yesterday and came to the O2 Arena to watch the game. She paid tribute to Lin at the scene. Come on, Gram, we will go back to the hotel together after the game, there is no such thing as a mysterious lady;

 Second, we will file a lawsuit with the local court in London to pursue relevant responsibilities in response to the false reports of the Sun, Daily Mail and other media;

 Third, Mr. Baker will respond to the rumors online at a later date. Until then, please exercise restraint and refrain from spreading rumors. We will hold individuals or media responsible for infringing on Mr. Baker's reputation. "

In the crowd, "Sun" reporter Gary had not slept all night, but his face was red. After hearing Anna finish, he raised his hands and shouted: "Ms. Anna, when will Mr. Baker respond? Will Miss Taylor attend at the same time?"

“I will inform you of the specific situation via Twitter later, please be patient.”

 “What time is our flight?”

 In five minutes, it received more than 33.2K likes, 68.1K retweets, and more than 11K comments.

Taylor clapped his hands, got off the bed with his long legs bare and only wearing suspender pajamas, picked up the hair tie on the table and tied it into a ponytail skillfully.

Link shook his head, opened the curtains, took a few photos of the holes in the floor-to-ceiling windows, and casually posted them on Twitter, with the caption "Look what this is."

If it were revealed that Link was cheating at this time, he would be able to gain a lot of attention in a very short time.

 “Don’t try to accuse me wrongly, I’m not that stingy.”

 “Hate! I also want to give you a surprise.”

 More online media got involved and started hyping up the news.

 “Then it will be held at one o’clock.”

Not long ago, at the MTV awards ceremony, Link stood up in public to support Taylor, fully demonstrating his boyfriend power and winning the favor of many fans.

　　Wow!

　　After the tweet was released, it took just a moment for the online traffic to flow in like the Thames River outside the window.

“Boss, when will we hold a press conference? Public opinion is very hot now, so I think it’s better to do it earlier.”

"Come and see, there are many people on the Internet who say you are a scumbag. They also say that boys with your looks are very carefree. They also said that they had predicted that you would cheat, but they didn't expect you to do it so quickly, haha. !”

Taylor rolled her eyes at him, took a toothbrush and brushed it casually a few times, then sat on the sofa to eat breakfast.

Anna suggested.

In addition, his real girlfriend is Taylor Swift, a popular singer in the music industry, who is extremely famous.

Tyler covered his mouth and laughed so hard.

 Anna said calmly.

 “This is Miss Taylor’s private matter, no comment!”

Anna said.

 After the two fell in love, they were hyped by the media as the "golden couple" and the next "Britney and Justin Timberlake".

Link pinched the tip of her nose and said.

 “Two thirty in the afternoon.”

Just after the interview, the news on the Internet about Link’s secret meeting with the mysterious lady at the Tower of London Hotel not only did not disappear, but became more lively.

 “Okay, I’ll go and notify them right away.”

Reporters from other media also rushed to ask questions.

 “Ms. Anna.”

The reason is very simple. Link is famous enough that news related to him is liked by the public, and scandals are even more popular.

“Ms. Anna, you just mentioned that Miss Taylor rushed to London yesterday to cheer for Link. Why didn’t she appear in public?”

"It's not enough to scare you! You sneaked over here, you must have wanted to see what I was doing in the hotel, and whether I was fooling around with any woman, right?"

Mainstream media are also hyping the two as 'the most perfect couple in the entertainment industry', 'the most enviable couple', and 'making people fall in love again'.

"what are you laughing at?"

Link asked as he looked at his watch.

 Anna answered a few questions, left the hotel lobby, and returned to the hotel room.

 The "Daily Mail" reporter raised his hand and asked.

Link asked as he put down his breakfast.

Link came to the bedroom carrying a dinner plate and saw Taylor with disheveled hair, sitting cross-legged on the bed and playing with his mobile phone, laughing while watching.

“You did all these things, how dare you laugh?”

 Anna nodded and left with the computer.

The scandal spread across both sides of the Atlantic in six hours and even circled the earth, as evidenced by this.

The love story between the two has also become a "top topic" in the entertainment industry.

 Lady Gaga left a message saying: It’s really scary. Fortunately, you’re okay.

 Carrie Underwood commented: Are British entertainment reporters so crazy? Be careful next time you go to London for a concert.

Paul Walker left a message: "007: The Adventures of World Boxing Champion in London"

Katy Perry left a message asking: I just tried it and the sound of scratching the glass was very loud. What were you doing at that time? Why didn't you hear it?

　In addition to these messages from acquaintances, there are even more messages from fans, asking who is the mysterious lady? Asking him to come out and explain quickly, some people left messages calling him a scumbag and cheating on Taylor's feelings.

What made Link dumbfounded was that someone zoomed in on the picture and saw a blurry figure through the reflection of the floor-to-ceiling window, claiming that the owner of the figure must be the mysterious girl, but she did not look like Taylor.

Then someone teased Link, saying that he wanted to refute the rumors in this way, but accidentally did it.

 Also, he asked Anna to inform the media and hold a press conference when leaving London at 1 pm to explain what happened last night.

But the British media believed that this was Link's delaying strategy.

 Depending on the flight speed, it only takes about 12 hours to get from Los Angeles to London.

If Taylor had been arranged to get on the plane and fly directly to London after yesterday's incident, he would most likely have arrived in London before one o'clock to coordinate with Link's performance.

Link shook his head, these media are too unscrupulous.

After they determine a fact, no matter what the truth is, they only interpret it in a direction that is conducive to their hype, and then lead the people who don’t know the truth into the ditch.

“Hey, beauty, a lot of people want to know who the mysterious lady is right now, how about showing her face?”

Link held his cell phone and said to Taylor who was eating.

“No! I haven’t washed my face yet, so don’t take pictures randomly.”

Taylor moved her hips so that her back was facing him.

“How about taking a back photo?” “Okay, remember to take a good picture.”

 Taylor put down her fork, straightened her hair and suspenders, and straightened her slender waist.

Link took five photos of her back and showed them to her for review. Taylor looked at them several times and selected the better one for him to send out.

So Link posted another tweet with the caption "The truth has just woken up, and the rumors have already circled the earth three times."

“Why do you say I just got up and didn’t get up until after nine o’clock? Fans will say I’m lazy when they find out.”

Tyler patted him on the shoulder and complained.

 “This is just a metaphor, and you just got up.”

 “I woke up early and was just playing with my phone.”

 “Okay, I’ll definitely pay attention next time.”

After the tweet was sent out, critics popped up again, asking why it was a photo from the back. If it was really Taylor Swift, why wasn't it taken from the front?

 Some netizens left a message saying that the photo was photoshopped and was taken by the public relations team looking for a model whose back looks like Taylor's. The purpose was still to delay time.

If it is really Taylor, a photo of the two of them should be released, and the photo should be taken standing in front of the holed floor-to-ceiling window to prove that Taylor is really in London.

Also, if the ‘mysterious lady’ is really Taylor, why didn’t she like Link’s two tweets?

　　In the past, she would like and retweet every tweet posted by Link.

Taylor’s lack of likes today shows that she is angry and the communication between the two parties is not pleasant.

Link looked at these messages and smiled helplessly.

 He ​​believes that even if Taylor's frontal picture is shown now and Taylor is asked to like it, those people will still close their eyes and shake their heads and say, "I don't believe it, I don't believe it."

He decided to ignore it for the time being and let the media spread rumors. For an entertainment star, it would be better to have some scandals.

 Because he was too lazy to explain, and because he had just defeated British boxing star Carl French, many British media were very unfriendly to him.

 After seeing him exposed to scandals or even scandals, he began to spare no effort to publicize the matter, trying to use this "scandal" to defeat him and regain the lost face.

For this reason, the day after Link won the WBC gold belt, the media was full of news about his cheating.

Even though Link held a press conference at Heathrow International Airport that afternoon, he gave some explanations and walked into the airport side by side with Taylor in front of many media reporters.

 There are still many media outlets who are unwilling to accept the facts.

Think that 'Taylor' is a stand-in, not the real Taylor.

 Some said that Taylor came from the United States to come to the rescue, and praised Taylor as "America's good girlfriend."

 This matter even involves several British actresses, including Keira Knightley, Emma Watson, Adele, and models who walked the Dior fashion show.

　　The news about ‘Link’s cheating’ was noisy in the British media for half a month before it gradually subsided.

 Because of this scandal, Link's popularity in the UK has skyrocketed. Even ordinary British people know that there is a boxer and singer named Link Baker.

 The publicity is better than the millions of pounds spent on advertising by promotional companies.

According to statistics from the Kingston Data Survey Company, before the boxing match, among the 5,000 survey respondents, 1,059 people had heard of Link's name, 658 people knew that he was a singer, and 297 people knew that he was a boxer. .

After the scandal, 3,858 of the 5,000 respondents had heard of his name, 3,617 knew that he was a singer, 3,522 knew that he was a boxer, and 3,809 said that he might be a playboy.

Link's fame in the UK skyrocketed and he became a "black and red" celebrity.

 In this fake news incident, the media that gained the most were the Sun and the Daily Mail. During that time, their news almost attracted the attention of the whole world.

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“Haha, thank you Link for making us a lot of money, I would like to call him my lucky star.”

 At The Sheaf small bar on Thames East Bank Pier, Detective Charlotte looked at the news and smiled.

 “Jack, this is yours!”

Reporter Gary took out a wad of pounds, about ten thousand, and pushed it in front of detective Charlotte.

 “Ten thousand?”

Detective Charlotte squinted her small eyes, looked at the pile of bills on the table, and then looked at Gary opposite, and said with a half-smile, "Bernard, I am a detective and am good at inquiring about information. I heard that you With this news, I became the head of the photography team of the entertainment news department of "The Sun" and received a bonus of 100,000 pounds. Other royalties should be tens of thousands. If you only gave me 10,000, would it be a little less? "

Reporter Gary adjusted his glasses and said with a smile: "Jack, you are right, it is 100,000 pounds. It's just that we distribute it according to work this time. The more you do, the more you get. I think 10,000 pounds is very reasonable."

"Farke! Bernard, I was not afraid of hard work a few days ago. I followed you around and even followed Biggs to the rooftop of the hotel. I risked going to jail to help you make big news, but now you say What did I do the least?”

Charlotte said angrily with a cold face.

Gary frowned, "Jack, this time it's not just you who takes the risk, but James and I too. In comparison, the risks we need to take are greater."

"But your gains will be greater. You will get a promotion and a salary increase. James also made a contribution to catching Biggs and will be reused in the future. I am the only one who has not received any credit. I think I am qualified to share more money."

Charlotte said firmly.

Reporter Gary shook his head, took out another pile and pushed it over.

"Is it enough?"

"I think it would be better to wait until James comes to discuss the matter of dividing the money."

Charlotte said, crossing her arms.

As he was speaking, Officer Ryder strode into the small bar with a sullen face.

“James, today is the celebration banquet, why are you here so late?”

Charlotte asked.

"problem occurs!"

Officer Ryder glanced at the two of them and lowered his voice and said, "I told you not to cooperate with Biggs at the beginning, but you didn't believe it. Now that **** has sent a message to me, asking us to get him out as soon as possible. Prepare 500,000 pounds for him, otherwise he will expose what we are planning."

  “500,000 pounds?”

 Gary and Charlotte couldn't help but exclaimed.

“That **** is a robber, we shouldn’t have cooperated with him in the first place.”

Officer Ryder picked up the glass and drank it down in one gulp, and said with a gloomy expression.

"What should we do now?"

Reporter Gary looked at Officer Ryder and Detective Charlotte nervously.

If Biggs reveals the matter and lets everyone know that the four of them conspired to create fake news, he will not only lose the opportunity for promotion and salary increase, but may also be fired from "The Sun".

 This is definitely not the result he wants.

 “If we are stabbed out by him, will we go to jail?”

Charlotte looked at Officer Ryder and asked.

Officer Ryder nodded silently.

 Gary and Charlotte's expressions suddenly became ugly.

 (End of this chapter)