Madeline has filtered out the guests and had a few candidates left in her mind.
There were the only ones who would go extreme to get whatever they wanted.
She looked at the clothes she was wearing and decided to change. She hasn't put on much thought to this show but it was clearly a competition and the lower she wanted to hide herself, the higher the audience would want to see her.
So she would get as much popularity as she could to get the audience dissatisfied so they would ask questions on why she was getting more screen time than their favourites. This would force Henry to take the focus off her, which would give her space in the future to find out who did this to Stefan and also carry out Jake's request.
If any one heard Madeline's train of thought, they would surely be astonished. Everyone in the entertainment industry wanted to be more popular than they formerly were but here she was trying to avoid popularity at all cost.
