The broadcast rating of Taste of Childhood, particularly the live streaming data, was going well at the moment.

Maria's performance had greatly improved the program. She certainly made a significant contribution to Taste of Childhood!

Leif was even thinking about focusing the program on Maria.

It was a common occurrence in this industry for their rivals to malign a successful reality show.

If a certain reality show was getting the views of the majority of online users, it meant that other programs were getting less attention.

Leif had been in the industry for a long time. Every now and then, he would run into a problem such as this.

This time, though, he sensed it to be true, thanks to his keen intuition.

“Mr. Brooks, what do you think we should do?" asked the assistant director, also frowning as he read the news.

Lief thought for a while and then said, "We'll continue shooting for now. No more discussion about this matter."

Continue shooting?

For a brief moment, the assistant director was speechless.

They were talking about rearranging the program's material so that Maria would be the main focus.

So what Leif meant about continuing shooting the program was... he wouldn't allow the show to center on Maria.

“What a pity! If Maria hadn't lied, she could have been the most popular celebrity after this.”

The assistant director shook his head regretfully.

Actually, Leif was still kind to Maria.

Maria had, after all, lied. Even if Leif fired her from the show, she had to accept it because it was spelled out in the contract that the guests of the show couldn't do anything that would hurt the program's reputation either through their words or actions.

The directorial group believed that such a resolution to this issue was acceptable. Quite unexpectedly, however, Jacqueline, who was major sponsor and producer of the show, took the initiative to look for Leif during the break in the program's filming.

“Mr. Brooks, have you seen this?" She turned on her phone to show the news about Maria.

“It's not a big deal," Leif said in a raspy voice as he wiped the sweat on his forehead.

“We can think of it as Maria making a joke.”

In any case, it wasn't against the law to lie about her grades in a reality show. She didn't deserve to be criticized so severely, even if she truly was an underachiever.

Leif was not only taking care of Maria, but he was also thinking about the interests of the entire production crew.

The show was steadily gaining its popularity. Anything that would happened to one of the guests would eventually impact the interests of the production team and hence their sponsor, which was Jacqueline herself.