Talk:Red Carpet Diaries, Book 1/@comment-34381956-20180227204137/@comment-34381956-20180301180736

I originally thought that it was Victoria. She hasn't made any secret of her dislike of MC, she feels threatened by MC because she's getting old or whatever, and she's a good actor so it would be easy enough to act surprised and mad when it came out. She's cunning, so she would absolutely think to spill her secret but not MC's to make MC clear suspect. Then I realized that they probably wouldn't have a love interest do something like that, so Victoria is probably innocent.

It could have been an agent. Maybe Matt or Victoria talked to their agents about what they were stuck doing in the desert? There must be some level of trust between them, so they might have done it without thinking anything bad would happen. Matt's agent didn't want him doing the movie, as you mentioned, and Victoria's agent might be as concerned as Victoria about her future and being potentially replaced by MC. But...then Matt/Victoria would have reason to believe that MC might not be the leak. Someone could have butt dialed someone on accident while getting ready to go into the steam room and not noticed? Then the person on the other end might have overheard, depending on whether there was a wall between the changing area and the actual steam room. That could have led to Matt/Victoria's agent overhearing everything, I guess. I think MC's last call before the trip was to Seth, who's a love interest so he's probably not involved.

Was the steam room already there, or did Markus have them build it? If it was built specifically for them (like the bed of coals they walked across), maybe the people who built it put some kind of bug in the walls in the hope that they'd learn something that they could sell to the press. Then the explanation for MC's secret not being leaked would be that nobody cared (including Matt, Victoria, and Teja when MC told them in the first place) because it wasn't interesting enough to be Hollywood gossip.