A would-be fashion designer from Russia was cajoled into competing in a reality-style competition on Chinese TV. The winners would form a singing and dancing boy band. But, as The World’s Marco Werman tells it, young Vladislav Sidorov could neither sing nor dance. And this weekend, he just missed being voted into the band by Chinese fans.
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