Samantha's Not Happy

Debbi had also put to the back of her mind what had only been casually mentioned in passing, which was that she would be being interviewed in the nude ! Charles the director had just been in with Solomon to emphasize the point. "We're going to have the donation hotline number on screen throughout Debbi, so it should really boost the coffers" he encouraged her. Avalon had made her face up in a much more sophisticated way than for the cat performance and as Debbi stood there naked, was now lightly touching up the skin on the rest of her body. "At least you get your heels to wear" she consoled her !

Debbi pondered who was going to be in the 'specially invited' audience and what kind of questions she was likely to get. She mentally rehearsed what she hoped would be her responses; serious businesswoman, delighted to help the charity, amazed by the success, blah, blah, blah.

Meanwhile her interviewer Samantha was also feeling disgruntled. Not only had her attempts to include political activists in the audience been quashed but Charles had come up with the bright idea that she should conduct the interview wearing a bikini ! "But I'm a serious journalist Charles. I've got my future career to think of. I don't want old clips of me wearing a bikini cropping up every time I'm about to interview the P.M." Samantha was nothing if not ambitious !

"That may or may not come to pass Sam but for now you're working for a softcore porn channel and our punters want to see some skin" Charles asserted. "But Debbi's going to be naked" Samantha pointed out. "And your bikini will make a nice contrast, so that's what you'll wear. It's a relatively conservative one so be thankful for that" said Charles with finality.

Samantha stalked off to get changed but was not in the most amenable frame of mind for the upcoming interview !