When Peggy enters as a final contestant and wins, Tess congratulates her, and after seeing Mitchie and Shane sing together, apologizes to the former for her actions. Completely heartbroken over her mother's distraction and her failure, Tess retreats backstage in tears.

Succumbing to nervousness, Tess trips and nearly falls off the stage, failing the contest. While on stage, Tess sees her mother in the crowd, but her joy is quickly ruined when T.J. During rehearsal for her performance, Tess begins to verbally abuse Ella and Peggy for failing to follow the dance steps to the letter, which proves to be the final straw Peggy loses her temper and gives Tess a verbal scalding before walking off in a huff, and Ella quickly follows suit, leaving Tess to perform her number alone. As a way to further keep Mitchie out of her way during the Final Jam, Tess frames her for stealing her charm bracelet. The plan succeeds, turning most of the campers against her. When she sees that Mitchie and Shane are getting closer, she hatches a plan to tell the camp that Mitchie's mother is in fact the camp cook, and not the president of 'Hot Tunes China' as Mitchie has been claiming. Tess also has a crush on Shane Gray, who has been sent to camp to get his act together. Asking Mitchie to join her girl group, Tess casts her as a backup singer to stop her light from shining. However, when Tess hears Mitchie sing, she immediately sees her as competition, which she hates. Tess aspires to be a singer like her mother, and often tries excessively hard to make everything she does perfect, either her, inviting her to stay in the cabin that she shares with her 'followers', Ella and Peggy. Tess Tyler has attended Camp Rock every year, and is known as it's 'diva', partially due to her renowned talent, but also due to her arrogant behavior.

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