China has embarrassed themselves by pulling a Milli Vanilli stunt during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Lin Miaoke, the cute Chinese girl with the golden voice that made our hearts melt, was miming to a recording by another girl, Yang Peiyi.

Yang Peiyi didn’t make it into the ceremony because she didn’t had the right image; she was not pretty enough and had uneven teeth. After the performance of the opening ceremony Lin Miaoke got flooded with commercial offers but she got outed as a fake.

Music chief Chen said:

“It was the image of our national music, our national culture. And especially since it accompanied the arrival of the national flag in the arena, this was an extremely serious matter. In the end the change resulted in “a perfect voice and perfect image, merged together”. “

But the signing was not the only thing that was manipulated. According to the The Beijing Times the 55-second, 29-sequence firework footprints exploding their way up Beijing’s central axis was “mostly an animated three-dimensional video that was made over a year. It was not actually live footage except the final stage” at the stadium itself.