Salma Hayek

## Overview

Salma Hayek is a noted master of Route 1 and is the de facto "number 2" behind Monica Bellucci in the Med Event Mafia. She is also best friends with Penelope Cruz for whom she acts as a manager and mouthpiece. Hayek is perhaps the most outspoken member of the Med Event Mafia, frequently berating her opponents with insults and condescending to the reporter during interviews. She frequently calls Philippa Forrester "Fat" instead of her name and did the same thing to Barbie Ferreira. Hayek has an incredibly high opinion of herself but is also extremely loyal to both Bellucci and Cruz, and to the Med Event Mafia as a whole. After saying she was "above" The Queen's Cup, she went on to win Queen's Cup IV following a perfect 9 points in the group and convincing wins over Anne Hathaway and Natalie Dormer in the Semi-Final and Final respectively. Although she was very prominent throughout the Med Event Mafia vs. The Pantheon storyline, she has a personal burning hatred of Brooke Shields with whom she has a blood feud. Hayek frequently calls Shields "pan-face", "flat-chested", "a boy", and other more-foul-mouthed names. One reason for Hayek's hatred of Shields is because she has lost to her twice, both times in Round 2, in WWYD3 and WWYD4. These are Hayek's only losses to date and she is incredibly bitter about them. Hayek served briefly as Special Investigator during WWYD4. She reached the Elite Eight of WWYD5 but lost to the eventual winner Cindy Crawford in the Quarters.

# Storylines and Controversies

## WWYD3

After beating Ulrika Jonsson 78-22, Hayek lost to Brooke Shields 61-39. However, Hayek remained active in the tournament as the manager of her best friend Penelope Cruz. Before the Quarter-Finals, she and Cruz tried to seduce Michael Aspel in a bid to convince him to fix the draw so that Cruz would draw Shields so that Hayek could exact her revenge, but Aspel proved incorruptible. In the event, Cruz finished the tournament third, while Shields lost in the Quarters to Michelle Pfeiffer.

## WWYD4

The tournament was dominated by the Med Event Mafia vs. The Pantheon storyline and Hayek was a prominent member of the Med Event Mafia. Before the tournament started, Bellucci had tasked Hayek with facing the champion Jennifer Connelly. But just before it was about to begin, Hayek pleaded with Bellucci to switch the booking, so that Connelly would face Alexandra Daddario instead. Hayek wanted to move to a position where she would once again face her nemesis Brooke Shields in Round 2. This came to pass, but once again Hayek lost, 56-44, even though she played her signature shots Beach Dreams. However, Bellucci asked her to fill in as Special Investigator following the escape of Damian Hurley, a role she filled with aplomb. For reasons unknown, while she was special investigator, Hayek exclusively wore masculine suits, although dropped this look after the tournament. After the Med Event Mafia experienced total wipeout in the Quarter-Finals and following The Consortium Takeover, Hayek remained loyal to Bellucci and said "You'll always be our Queen" even as Bellucci was tearfully leaving the Med Event Mafia Offices.

## Queen's Cup IV

After WWYD4, Med Event Mafia were thought to be disbanded. Nonetheless, while Monica Bellucci was still commissioner, she used her executive powers to "save" Hayek, Lauren Jauregui and Claudia Cardinale from elimination by giving them places at The Queen's Cup. Hayek thought herself "above" the tournament, but took it seriously nonetheless. She won all five of her matches defeating Natalie Dormer in the final. After the victory, she cut a promo saying, "They said it couldn't be done, they counted us out, you thought we were dead and buried! The Med Event Mafia will never die! WE RULE SUPREME!"

## WWYD5

Hayek received a bye in Round 2 and so only had to play three matches to reach the Quarters. She did, however, have an impressive win over Keira Knightly in Round 3 before being knocked out herself by Cindy Crawford. Hayek was very active as Monica Bellucci's "number 2" for the Med Event Mafia during the tournament especially in the Med Event Mafia Dominate Damian storyline, where she led an abduction of him twice, and vocally berated him during various struggle sessions. Hayek was especially active in the Shields-gate event, where she presented evidence against her nemesis Brooke Shields to suggest that she had cheated by entering a "doctored shot". She then coerced Damian to disqualify Shields on those grounds, which he did after she along with Ana de Armas and Lauren Jauregui severely beat him up.

## Queen's Cup V

Hayek was briefly seen celebrating Lauren Jauregui victory after The Fingernail of Doom.

## 1st Tag-Team Tournament

Hayek teamed up with her long-time "best friend forever" **Salma Hayek** as The BFFs. They had a very successful tournament beating both teams from The Pantheon, Facial Attraction (52-48) and American Made (51-49). Hayek was largely driven by revenge on Brooke Shields which led to the Med Event Mafia's Hospitalisation of Brooke Shields. Cruz and Hayek ended up arrested and appearing in court. Ultimately Monica Bellucci helped persuade Clarence Thomas to drop the charges. After finally defeating Cindy Crawford and Brooke Shields, the BFFs faced The Cuban Connection in the final, and were widely expected to win the tournament, but their stablemates score an upset win which Hayek and Cruz took graciously and recognised them as "the best team".

## WWYD6

Hayek was an active part of the Med Event Mafia's Arrangement with Jeremy Hunt storyline. She drew her arch-nemesis Brooke Shields in the Quarter-Finals losing for a third time to cap off the Salma Hayek vs. Brooke Shields feud once and for all. After the match Hayek said she wished to kill herself, but bounced back into action in the Semi-Final when she was part of a highly unusual 5-on-1 handicap match with the rest of the Med Event Mafia against Cindy Crawford which resulted in a draw. When Lauren Jauregui ended up winning the tournament, Hayek was seen with Monica Bellucci who seemed to be jealous of her underling's success and the pair were visibly muted at the team celebrations.

# Facts

* **Signature shots**
	+ Beach Dreams
* **Stables**
	+ Med Event Mafia
* **Teams**
	+ The BFFs
* Superstars Managed
	+ Penelope Cruz

# Championships and accomplishments

* Queen's Cup IV winner
* 1st Tag-Team Tournament runner-up (with Penelope Cruz as The BFFs)