The words had barely left my mouth when the crowd below the stage erupted into an uproar.
"Oh my god, this..."
No one could tell who was the first to gasp in shock, but one voice quickly turned into two, then three, until the whole room was buzzing with noise.
The reporters, who had been diligently prepping for their interviews on their laptops just seconds earlier, dumped all their work without a second thought. Dignity be damned, they grabbed their phones and leaned in to whisper to each other, heads huddled together.
They passed their phones around, faces twisted into all sorts of wild expressions.
Snickers, disbelieving shouts, and shocked exclamations bounced off the walls.
Every few seconds, they'd glance down at their screens, then snap their heads up to stare at the stage, li
