Monday, May 31, 2010

Maggie Cheung seeks for perfection at skincare photo shoot

Maggie Cheung was doing a photo shoot a new set of skincare ads for her skincare endorsement. Before the photo shoot, she did all her homework by take good care of her skin daily in preparation. The photo shoot lasted for 8 hours, Maggie changed into 4 different outfits, constantly fixing and changing her make-up. However, she was still able to maintain her smooth skin, making the photo shoot a total success! For perfection, after every photo, Maggie would look at the results with the photographer, make-up artist and hairstylist to ensure the results are perfect!

Source: On.cc
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Yammie Lam captured in the street with her stomach exposed

80's TVB actress Yammie Lam who became bankrupt in 2006 is often captured looking confused and mentally distressed. Recently a magazine captured photos of her walking down the street in Stanley with her stomach exposed. Pehaps due to being unemployed she has gained weight due to pressure. The reporter noticed her behaviour very over the top as she started to punch with her fist in the street. She seemed to be in a good mood. She was seen in Central later on glancing in a furniture store, tryng out sofas.

Source: 21cn
Translation: Matchbox @ http://illusive-serenity.forumotion.net

Samantha Ko Praises Him Law being a gentleman

Samantha Ko appeared in a top that revealed her belly button while attending "The World Cup 2010 Survey Conference". She collaborated with Him Law in baking a cake. She said "I really get along well with him. I need to exchange phone numbers with him and arrange to go to the gym together. He is a gentleman. It is very hard to find nice guys nowadays. I will be going to South Africa for 30 days. I will be careful there. I will also take my laptop with me to communicate with my family". Him said "I have baked a cake for my girlfriend before". (You have met many girls?) "Okay la, I take relationships very seriously". (Is Samatha suitable for you?) "I will need to exchange numbers with her and get to know her abit more. I envy her going to South Africa".

Source: On.cc
Translation: Matchbox @ http://illusive-serenity.forumotion.net

Shawn Yue to Return to the Music Industry

Shawn Yue hasn't release an album for many years. He will start to record a new Mandarin album in the second half of this year. Shawn expressed filming is an imaginary world, always play other people, so he hopes to express himself in his true self and get closer with everyone using music. During filming he will also prepare for his concert. Besides performing in Hong Kong, he will also go to Mainland and Taiwan to perform. He said he watched many concerts this period, and Coldplay's stunned him the most.

29-year-old Shawn once eagerly hope to turn 30 because many directors told him that they will collaborate with him once he gets older. Now time has passed and he can't believe he's turning 30 soon. Some of his friends and colleagues are already married and have kids. He expressed he will try harder to pursue his dream in the future.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: Kay's Entertainment

Alex Fong and Stephy Tang Are Companionate About Marriage

There are always rumors that Alex Fong and Stephy Tang are a couple in real life after filming together. Nearly 30 years old, it's said Alex intends to get married soon and lately invited his dad, Stephy, and a friend from Mainland to meet in W hotel. A magazine pointed out they're talking about a wedding in October.

Stephy replied on Weibo/Sina mini blog yesterday. The person in the picture is actually well-known Mainland artist Qi Zhilong (祁志龍), can't believe people mistaken him as wedding planner. She stressed: "I was introduced to Mr. Qi Zhilong by Alex, it's an honor that he intends to use me as a model in his latest collection, so before he left Hong Kong, we had a meet up in W hotel and discussed about related business. Able to become the model of China's well-known artist, of course it's very anticipating! In a good mood of course! Getting married? It's too early! Haha!" She advised fans don't waste money to buy untrue story to read, she wrote: "Twelve dollars is enough for two African children to spend one day."

Alex expressed Qi said there's a chance he might draw males the first time, so friends advised why not draw him and Stephy's face on the same drawing, many people might want to buy it. Alex accepted this suggestion and expressed he began to save money now.

In fact, Stephy's reply to marriage seems to make her relationship with Alex even closer, does it mean the two plans to get married but just not in the near future?

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: Kay's Entertainment

Kara Hui "5 Time Winner Queen" for Best Actress

Last night the "10th Chinese Film Media Awards" was held in Guangzhou. Kara Hui was named Best Actress for her role in "At the End of Daybreak". Combining with all the film awards in HK, Kara is now the "5 Time Winner Queen" with 5 Best Actress awards. Film King went to Taiwanese film "No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti" (AKA: Can't Live Without You) lead actor Chen Wei Pin. In addition to the Best Actor award, the film also won 2 other big awards including Best Film and Best Director (Leon Dai).

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Kiki Sheung won't film series in the summers after marriage

Kiki Sheung will be getting married in October. She frankly said that she's currently working hard to lose weight before then. Her goal is to lose 10 pounds and she already completed half of it. She reveals that she often exercise, weight lifting and going on a diet, hoping to reach her goal soon. She expressed that after marriage, she will reduce her workload, absolutely no filming series in the summer.

Source: On.cc
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

TVB Rating Reports (24/05/2010 - 30/05/2010) {20 Complaints}

Dramas

The Mysteries of Love - 談情說案 (EPS 01-05) - 31 PTS (Peaking at 33 PTS)

Sisters of Pearl - 掌上明珠 (EPS 16-20) - 28 PTS (Peaking at 30 PTS)

O.L Supreme - 女王辦公室 (EPS 64-68) - 25 PTS

Variety Shows

Super Trio Game Master - 超級遊戲獎門人 (EP 05) - 28 PTS (Peaking at 29 PTS)
Admiral's Feast - 為食總司令 (EP 14) - 24 PTS
The Voice 2 - 超級巨聲2 (EP 04) - 22 PTS
Shanghai Delicacy Exposed - 上海世博最知味 (EPS 08-10) - 21 PTS

Special

Community Chest 2010 - 萬眾同心公益金 - 17 PTS

Notes

- "The Mysteries of Love" received a total of 19 complaints. 12 complaints on the story plagiarizing Japanese drama "Detective Galileo" and 7 complaints on the harmful scenes. It was said that the more uproar the series has, the higher the ratings.
- "Super Trio Game Master" received 1 complaint on the dangerous games which is harmful to watch.

(CSM Media Research: 1 point represents 63,740 audience)

Source: On.cc, Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Christopher Wong wrote a song to commemorate his late father

After 5 years away from Hong Kong, Christopher Wong is ready to make a come back. Chris is busy preparing all brand new songs for his "Christopher Wong Good Concert 2010". As "Father's Day" is coming close, in between his busy schedule, Chris thought about his father who passed away many years ago. He revealed that although his father was not there to see how successful he is in the music industry, he wrote a song called "My Father" to commemorate how great a father he had been to him. The lyrics of the song is a reflection of Chris real life event with his father. It talked about his childhood as well as the time when his father was ill. The family were all around him. No wonder each time when Chris sings that song, he has tears in his eyes.

Source: Takungpao
Translator: Hokkien128 @ http://www.asianvn.com

Amigo Chui's comeback


Amigo Chui appeared as a host for an opening ceremony of a jewellery outlet yesterday. He expressed that he was not too nervous this time. When asked about the payment, he said, "No problem, I'm quite satisfied."


Still in contact with Steven Chan


Amigo expressed that this is his first job after his "coming back", he said, " This time I'm making a comeback as a new me. During the weekend, I will host a charity music event. (Did cable TV arrange any jobs for you?) Not yet, they will contact me if there is any arrangement. (Are you nervous?) I'm not, I also need time to get used to it. ( You are from Steven Chan's side, are you afraid of less chances at cable TV?) I'm making a comeback as a new me this time, I never think that much. I'll just work when there's work for me, prepare myself, hopefully people will have a different perception of me. He admitted that he still contacts Steven Chan, and was asked if Steven gave him any opinions, he said, "He was the mentor of my life, I'll be more sincere as I'm a beginner now."


Speaking about MC Jin who took over Amigo in hosting for Jade Solid Gold, he praised MC Jin for doing a great job. Amigo was asked if he is confident that he could host for the program again, " Don't say like that, I would want to work with him."


Translator: Eujean Lee @ TVB News World

Leon Lai ate breakfast on an empty stomach?


Last night, Leon Lai participated in the charity event. His 'golden sentence' was made fun of by TVB's 'popularity Gods' Wong Cho Lam, Louis Yuen and Johnson Lee. During the cross-dressing segment the Cho Lam asked why Leon seemed to have lost weight, Johnson replied that is because Leon would never eat on an empty stomach, leaving the audience roaring with laughter. Although Leon had on a blank expression, he clapped with grace.
Thereafter, when asked if he was afraid of Leon getting mad, he replied with a smile, "I know it was for me, and it was more than one!" Louis Yuen also commented, "When Leon claps, he does it so sexily!"

Translator: claradead @ http://tvbnewsworld.blogspot.com

Star singer and actress Jessica Simpson has wardrobe gaff

Star singer and actress Jessica Simpson  has wardrobe gaffSinger-actress Jessica Simpson stunned diners in a restaurant when she almost flashed her breasts while trying to retrieve a morsel of food that had fallen down her top.

Simpson was eating a meal with friends at a lounge when a morsel of food accidentally flew off her fork and disappeared down her low-cut top, causing her to scream out in surprise, reports contactmusic.com.

Then Simpson dug around to retrieve the food stuff, "ruffling up" her top in such a way that fellow diners in the restaurant had to look away.

"She not only dug down into her top, ruffling through bra and cleavage, she even tried burrowing out from beneath, wriggling and digging diligently for the lost tidbit," a source said.

When she finally gave up the hunt, the 29-year-old star joked: "Oh well... it'll pop up eventually!"

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Teresa Mo reproaches Lydia Tong for being “cruel”

As spokesperson for Vita Green Health Products, Teresa Mo participated in an event yesterday marking the premiere of a commercial that she did for the company. She says that the reason why she agreed to be a spokesperson for Vita Green is due to a ‘chance’ situation with the company's Dr Chen Xi Ling. She explained: “Last year, during the time when swine flu was at its peak, my youngest daughter caught the disease. There were too many people at the public hospitals and when I tried to take her to the private hospitals, not a single one would take her. I felt so helpless at the time, since it was the middle of the night and my daughter had a 104 degree fever, so I turned to Dr. Chen – our long-time family doctor – who immediately helped us find a hospital. She basically saved my daughter’s life.” (So you agreed to do this commercial because of Dr. Chen?) “Well, my family did try out these health products as well and the company did pay me for shooting the commercial, but at a ‘friend rate’.”

Asked about her good friend Isabella Kou’s daughter Lydia incurring the wrath of thousands of netizens through her ‘Bonsai Cat’ weibo posting, Teresa commented: “At first, when I saw Dodo Cheng’s reprimand toward Lydia, I did not know the situation and so did not know what had made her so upset. I found out about it later. In my opinion, talking about it [how ‘Bonsai Cat’ is created] is already bad enough – the process is very cruel and inhumane….don’t want to be promoting it.” Teresa indicated that at first, she wanted to go on weibo and understand the situation better, but the posting was already deleted. However, the situation had already spun out of control, people were affected, and now even political organizations are involved. Teresa admitted that Lydia was wrong, but hopes that she learns from the situation: “I believe that the situation has nothing to do with Isabella – after all, Lydia is an adult already, so it’s hard to blame the parent entirely. As an adult, she should come forward and take responsibility for her own actions.”

As for reports that because Lydia is in England and has not returned to Hong Kong, her mother Isabella has become the ‘scapegoat’ for the situation. In response to this, Teresa stated: “If I get a chance to see Isabella, I would like try to console her. Being a mother is difficult – children make mistakes, but parents do also. In fact, I make mistakes all the time and am learning and changing constantly.”

In addition, Teresa revealed that currently, she is busy filming the new series "Sunny Every Day". She says that she is very grateful to producer Catherine Tsang for allowing her to collaborate with her idol Louise Lee in this series – her last TV series before returning to film. Teresa indicated that she is confident the series will get good ratings – plus her collaboration with Wayne Lai this time around will produce an ardent love relationship in the series.

Source: Takungpao
Translation: llwy12 @ AsianFanatics

Niki Chow lip synced when performing fast song

BMA held the "529 Fly Tonight" concert last night in Macau. BMA's big brother and sister Gary Cao and Niki Chow attended as performers. When Niki performed her song, she seems to have lip synced.

Niki appeared at the concert last night in a waist revealing outfit singing and dancing to her new fast song "800 days", however, she seems to have been lip syncing. She expressed that for live singing, if a band accompanies, you cannot lip sync. Niki joked and asked if its because she sang the song too well that people misunderstood? To rehearse for the dance to her new song, she took a week off from work to practice. With her performance recieving several praises, she felt happy.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Ella Koon oddly becomes a wife

Ella Koon went back and forth attending two events, it was rumored that she and her doctor boyfriend are married. Ella denied: "I didn't get married, it's just this one person on the discussion forums that said: 'My old classmate Ella Koon got married' and that got me on the headlines. I have to clarify that I am not married and I have explained this issue to my boyfriend. If I do get marry, I will announce it." She said that her boyfriend has not proposed to her yet: "Marriage is something far in the future. I feel that for a proposal, must kneel to me with roses, candle light dinner and diamond ring. However, these 4 things have not happened at the same time before." Denise Ho who was also at the event reveals that she'll be going to Taiwan and Mainland for the next two months to promote for her Mandarin album. Earlier she went to Taiwan and asked for advice from the local musicians: "I don't want to use the Hong Kong star style, I hope to do more live shows."

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Andy Lau's invested film: Impossible to make 10 million in box office


(Caption: MC Jin thanks Andy Lau for investing in "Fight to Win" giving him an opportunity to come in contact with Kung Fu)

Andy Lau's new invested film held its premiere last night, Andy expressed that he hopes the film can make 5-6 million in the box office. Producer Gordon Lam interrupted: "If its less than 5-6 million then I will never act again." Andy was very concerned and told Gordon to take back what he said. Later, Gordon asked why Andy's so modest to set a goal of just 5-6 million? Andy said: "5-6 million is already pretty high, more than 10 million is impossible. In a situation, a person knows how high they can go, have to know their place. This movie is not a grand production produced by a known producer, director or classy actors. It is just a movie with junior level actors and a new director. Receiving 2-3 million is already very good." What's the payback then? This movie will play in Mainland where an estimate revenue of 20 million yuan, earn some profits there.

This film will play in both Beijing and Shanghai, some cinemas also will play the movie in the original Cantonese version. Before some HK produced movies playing in Cantonese, some audience complained that they couldn't understand, Andy is not worried that audience might not understand because there are only a small number of cinemas playing the Cantonese version. Audience afraid that they won't understand the Cantonese version can choose not to watch that version, also there is always
subtitles if the language cannot be understood.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Sammi Cheng and Andy Hui caught in couple dressing


Sammi Cheng and Andy Hui has been separated for 8 years now and there always has been rumours about them reconciling. But last month they were seen having hotpot together with the other 3 members of the Big 4 (Dicky Cheung, William So and Edmond Leung) for 3 hours in Shanghai. Yesterday, the 2 of them were seen at the Beijing airport in their black colour couple dressing, taking the same flight back to Hong Kong, allowing more rumours to their reconcilation.

Yesterday, Andy Hui first appeared in full black dressing and shades at the Beijing Airport checking in. About a minute later, a big group of fans came surrounding a female star who was also dressed in black and shades. It was then found that she was the female star that has been friends for 11 years with him, who is also his ex-girlfriend, Sammi. Many passerbys were caught by surprise. They were happily talking to each other and also appeared friendly responding to fans, then board for the same flight returning to Hong Kong.

Andy Hui does not care about girlfriend's feelings

It was found that the two of them (Sammi and Andy) were attending an event in Beijing the night before. Sammi uploaded a picture of herself at Shui Lap Fong on Weibo. Similarly to the previous month, the Big 4 were holding a concert at Beijing. After the concert has ended, they went for hot pot again, which caused Andy Hui's current girlfriend, Michelle Yu to be jealous.

Previously, when Sammi was promoting for her concert in Taiwan, she was asked if there is any chance of her reconciling with Andy Hui, she said, " I have no control over things. Let's leave it to God!" She added, "whoever who's in love with me now would be very happy!". Fans hope that they will both reconcile.

Source: Sina Entertainment
Translator: Eujean Lee @ Tvb News World

Fiona Sit Is Willing To Perform For ATV Again

ATV's 15th Top Ten Television Commercial Award Ceremony was held yesterday. Besides performance from Fiona Sit, and Kelvin Kwan etc, who didn't have singer contract with TVB, Kelly Chen also recorded a video clip to congratulate.

Fiona said: "Since the tax incident, this is my first television performance, it's anticipating. I don't mind which TV station, I would sing and dance on stage, I also invited dancers to come." Asked the difference between the two TV stations? She said: "It's two different stations, of course there's some difference. But I'll try harder to sing, like put yourself into games." Because she had a contract with TVB, she has to wait 7 months before she can appear in other station: "This year would be my harvest year, I'll have films and TV series coming up next." Fiona expressed if ATV invite her again, she will definitely appear again, no need to be afraid of being blacklisted by TVB: "I'm just an artiste under a company, no right to choose who to work with."

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: Kay's Entertainment

Jessica Hsuan Hopes To Register For Marriage in South Africa

Yesterday the cast of "Sisters of Pearl" attended to the promotion event for series. Jessica Hsuan denied getting married: "We didn't went there to meet his parents, just to travel, it's a coincidence that his hometown is in South Africa. (Did his family urge about your wedding?) No, they're very nice, get along well, I spent a very peaceful vacation there, I myself loves the natural Africa, his family has a farm, wake up everyday with cockcrowing. (Like this type of life after getting married?) Didn't think about it. (When will you get married?) Definitely not this year, and won't let age restrict us, as long as we get along. (Register in South Africa?) Would love to."

Kiki just returned from abroad, she said she's trying hard to keep fit: "With the help of machines and Chinese medicines, it's quite hard actually, but it's for looking good in the two dressing during wedding. (Your goal is?) Lose 10+ lbs, now I lost about half of it." Michael Tao was said to date young girls, and he felt helpless about it: "I already replied that day, won't talk about it anymore, I cannot control what people do, will treat it like promoting for this series."

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: Kay's Entertainment

Janice Vidal To Hold A Concert in HK Coliseum in October

Janice Vidal will hold a concert in Hong Kong coliseum in October. Stepping into the coliseum again after three years, yesterday when she attended to an event, she expressed she's not worried because this time she would have enough time to prepare. Right now she is done shooting album cover and concert poster. Asked will sister Jill Vidal perform on stage? She said: "Hope to, hope family and friends will come to watch."

Janice seemed thinner lately, asked did she start to lose weight for the concert? She said: "I'm not exercising for losing weight, it's for health, hope to give a positive message to young people, so I told friends, if you're pretty inside then your outside would be pretty. (Whether company put pressure on you?) No! Boss knows the message I want to spread, so he's very supportive, really thank God gave me a good company."

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: Kay's Entertainment

Linda Chung's height thanks to milk


Linda Chung was attending an event for a particular milk brand. While testing the ideal taste of milk for 3 children, she bended her body and asked the children to feed her the drink. She expressed that she is a milk lover since young. When she was 12 years old, she was the shortest in her class. It could have been because of the milk and regular exercise that caused her height to increase. She also revealed that she is currently busy filming her new series. She plays a bowling trainer which is something different compared to her previous roles.

Source:on.cc
Translator: Eujean Lee @ tvbnewsworld.blogspot.com

Eric Tsang Opens a hot pot Resturant

(Sorry for the small image shared)


57 years old, Eric Tsang, other than investing money to his Udon store, he and his two good friends recently got together to open a hot pot resturant. Friends that came to support him included, Chin Kar Lok, Wong Cho Lam, Koni Lui Wei Yi, Timmy Hung Tin Ming, and Janet Chow Ka Wei. They all came to support him even if it was raining, making Eric Tsang very happy and touching. To thank them, Eric gave all the honoured guest a card that would earn them free hot pot at his hot pot resturant. Asked if this card can be used over and over again, Eric replied "Only once or twice, and it has to be used after 3am."

Source: HK Yahoo News
Translator: Tiffanyliu_312 @ http://tvbnewsworld.blogspot.com/

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Huang Xiao Ming: Angelababy's Great, Their dating days did not include a Love Triangle


Huang Xiao Ming and Angelababy are rumored to be passionately dating. Earlier, Xiao Ming had invited Angelababy as the MV female lead for a new song, and in Beijing, and the duo were spotted catching supper together before returning home late at night; even when he was in Hong Kong to attend film events, they would meet a day early for a secret meeting. Yesterday, Xiao Ming publicly showed his appreciation for her, and too mentioned that after getting to know her, she is great! He also clearly remembers the day they met each other, displaying their growing relationship.

Afraid of paparazzi therefore avoiding unnecessary meetups

Xiao Ming and Angelababy repeatedly denied dating, however, with reference to the previous incident on the Air show, a magazine cover, caused Xiao Ming to be a constant gossip victim. Here to advertise his new film yesterday, Xiao Ming expressed that he would only be in town for two days. When asked if he had a date with Angelababy, he replied, "Want to date, but afraid of paparazzi, therefore may not meet."

Watched a film once but never gone home together

Xiao Ming said that while he was not used to being interrupted, he appreciated the work of the media, hoping for mercy, with no exaggerated news. Reported that he and Angelababy had being secretly dating for two years, it involved a love triangle with William Chan where William harboured illusions before giving her up. Xiao Ming had said with a laugh, "Two years ago, I haven't known Angelababy, I only know her last October." When asked to what extend their relationship had reached, Xiao Ming replied with a laugh, "What extend? Catching a film together; yes. Going home together; no."

Xiao Ming had earlier invited Angelababy as the MV female lead of a new song, and asked whether they appreciate each other. He said, "Knowing her is my pleasure. In fact, I had planned to shoot something for MV a long time ago, but had yet to know her; I then called my friends from two advertising companies for a female lead, and they all recommended Angelababy."

William Chan hopes to be left out of rumors

Angelababy had failed to respond to rumors yesterday; she said through manager AhKim,"As much as I wish that this matter would not complicate further, I will continue to work with Huang Xiao Ming, as long as he is doing good work." While studying dance in the United States, she admitted homesickness has started the William Chan physical state, then upload the words "Even in the United States trouble cannot be avoided, trouble please stay away from me." He just hopes to draw the line with the couple and not be involved with any love triangle.

Source: Mingpao
Translator: claradead @ http://tvbnewsworld.blogspot.com

Mani Fok's kitchen almost caught on fire because of Joey Yung

Yesterday Mani Fok attended a youth cooking competition and served as the guest judge. Showing off her cooking skills, Mani cooked healthy eggs on the spot, Michelle Mai was her assistant. Mani exposed that most of the EEG singers are not very good cooks, especially Joey Yung whose really bad. Mani said: "Her cooking isn't just not tasty, but leads to a fire disaster too! One time she burnt half of my wok because she forgot to turn off the stove."

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Miriam Yeung: Redo song record not because of off-tune

It was reported that when Miriam Yeung sang the high notes (this line of the lyrics: "Talks about friendship more and more") to her new song "飲酒思源" she sounded like she went off-tune. To avoid damaging her Pop Queen status, Miriam demanded to take back the song and record it again. Yesterday Miriam attended the RTHK series "毒戒" press conference and denied that she wanted to record the song again due to being off-tune. However, she does admit that her voice suddenly became sharper and felt that the emotions could be expressed better, so it would be best to record the song again.

When asked about wanting to record her song again due to being off-tune? Miriam said: "Recording the song over again due to being off-tune is something impossible. With the current high technology, a little off-tune is not a problem, 2 seconds off can be easily fixed. The producer requested that I go that high when I sing that part of the song and that I should sound sharper. If he discovers that I went off-tune he will immediately request me to sing it again. How can an off-tune piece be released? You think the 30 people who listened to the song before its release has hearing problems? People shouldn't exaggerate so much." However, Miriam does admit she could express her emotions better and can record the song again. She said: "When I was recording, I experienced asthma issues which affected my breathing while I sang. The song released to play on the radio stations is just a demo, it cannot be placed on the actual CD. It's just like acting, when the expressions aren't done well or dialogue isn't said well, then you can NG a few more times. This is normal in music production as well." Miriam denied that she wanted to take the song back and said some people felt the first version was better, can just air the first one. Even her husband Real Ting felt that her first version was good.

Have been in the industry for many years, is this the first time she has to record a song again? Miriam denied. She said that perhaps before she wasn't popular yet, so no one bothered to talk about it. As to getting indirect criticisms from Maria Cordero ("Fei Ma"), Miriam didn't feel unhappy about it and said catching attention from seniors means that she is a valuable artist. As an artist, you must be able to accept criticisms, but she does have her own work principles. Maria said that superstars won't get off tune? She felt that every person has different personalities and a different path in the music scene, can't be that stubborn. She joked: "I am an Asian superstar with an Asian superstar personality, sorry."

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Stephen Huynh angered: I don't depend on women!

Carol (Dodo) Cheng, Nat Chan, Janice Vidal, Aarif Lee, Christine Kuo, Kayi Cheung and Stephen Huynh attended the blessing ceremony for a TVB charity show. A 60 year old Thai wealthy businesswoman (Tsui Mei Kei) that Stephen met earlier also attended the event. Mrs. Tsui and Stephen will be performing Latin dancing at the charity event, the two generously took a group photo.

Speaking of the recent reports relating to the wealthy businesswoman providing capital for Stephen to open his restaurant, Stephen said helplessly: "The contents in the article is very fake. Mrs. Tsui does plan to take legal action and we have discuss about this matter already, however she said that she will handle it." Speaking of the reports saying that he's dependent on women to take care of him, Stephen was angry and said: "My younger brother didn't know how to speak up, I spoke up for him. (No embarrassment for the Latin dance performance?) No, actually we have collaborated before last year. I make my own money, I don't need to count on women."

Mrs. Tsui also expressed that she's innocent and won't be embarrassed for the Latin dance performance with Stephen. She said: "We are adults, we do what adults do, we have already passed this issue to the lawyers to take care of. Today we are doing charity, don't talk about these things!"

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Roger Kwok decided to quit smoking after he ran out of breath while filming

Roger Kwok, as the "Smoking cessation ambassador" attended an activity in Whampoa yesterday. Roger pointed out that he is the best person to be appointed as "Smoking cessation ambassador" because he is an ex-smoker. He had more than 10 years of "smoking" experience before he eventually gave it up 6 years ago.

Roger revealed "When I entered the entertainment industry, I had so much stress, like working all hours. I had to rely on smoking to get by, it was a bad habit. Once I smoked over 2 packets a day. (Wow, how did you give it up when you were such a heavy smoker?) I found out that my health was getting worse since I smoked. When I sang on stage, I ran out of breath and my heart beat was so fast. I tried to quit once, but was unsuccessful due to the fact that my friends around me were smokers. I couldn't handle that "smoking" temptation. However, I was successful the second time round." Roger was asked what was the driving force behind him the second time round? Roger smiled and said he owed it to Myolie Wu. He explained "In a TV series, Myolie was the passenger and I was the rickshaw driver. After only one round of pulling the rickshaw, I was exhausted, my heart was beating very fast and I was shaking. I had to rest for 5 minutes before the second take. At that moment, I knew I had to do it, so I decided to quit smoking."

Talking about the TVB up coming new series "The Mysteries of Love", it was said that Raymond Lam had copied his role from a Japanese drama. Roger said an artist would not copy another artist's acting skill. Even if different artist to play the same role, it would result in different outcome. He asked the audience that it is better for them to concentrate watching how Raymond plays that role in comparison with the Japanese one.

Source: Takungpao
Translator: R.E.D @ http://www.asianvn.com

Michelle Reis is pregnant



Michelle Reis and husband Xu Jin Heng appeared in Shanghai. On the 26th of May, Michelle was invited to do a promotion for a bathroom product in Shanghai. Michelle was seen wearing flat sole shoes at the event of the promotion, supposed Michelle is carrying her first child. Rumoured that Xu Jin Heng's family would also reward Michelle five hundred million $HK for having her first child.

Source: On.cc, Singtao (image)
Translator: lucychoi559 @ http://tvbnewsworld.blogspot.com

Friday, May 28, 2010

Lydia Tong is indignant: disagrees with the criticisms of certain artists

Lydia Tong’s “Bonsai Cat” posting from a couple days ago angered both artists in the entertainment industry as well as netizens alike. Even though she has since deleted the offensive posting and has indicated that she is in the process of “reflecting” on the situation, many feel that she is not sincere and is still very much indignant about what happened. After a few days of self-reflection and reviewing Weibo postings, yesterday Lydia posted a message saying that she has learned to look at the situation from other people’s perspectives and finally understands where she went wrong. However she is still “reflecting” on the situation and wants to completely comprehend it before truly apologizing because she is still indignant about the comments and criticisms of certain artists. She also indicated that if so many people did not ‘jump on the bandwagon’ to criticize her, she may have ‘comprehended’ the situation earlier – whatever the case, she recognizes that people just want her to be less willful and selfish.

When the situation occurred several days ago, renown fashion designer Dorian Ho – a good friend of Lydia’s mother Isabella Kou – had also strongly reprimanded Lydia via Weibo. Yesterday, while attending an event, he was asked about the situation and said that he truly feels that Lydia’s mother Isabella should not have intervened in the situation. Dorian said: “I feel that as Lydia’s mother, it would have been better for Isabella not to have said anything. When the situation occurred and she started defending her daughter, it caused even more anger and criticism from netizens and artists.”

Dorian indicated that by Isabella responding that Lydia’s posting (the picture and comments) was merely a “small matter”, it gave people the impression that she was trying to protect her daughter and doesn’t know how to “teach” her daughter. Dorian added: “Lydia should have taken responsibility for her own actions and faced the criticisms herself instead of having her mother come out and respond for her.” Dorian indicated that he is good friends with Isabella and believes that she is a very understanding person, so she should not take offense to his comments: “A lot of people support my stance and feel that I am helping Isabella teach her daughter.”

Source: Ming Pao
Translation: llwy12 @ AsianFanatics

Weibo news: Tony Leung and Carina Lau join Weibo; Charmaine Sheh celebrates 35th birthday

With more and more celebrities and other public figures joining day by day, Weibo (Asian Twitter) has definitely taken the entertainment industry by storm!

The newest celebrity to join Weibo is multi-Best Actor winner Tony Leung Chiu Wai (who only joined day before yesterday). On his first Weibo postings, Tony indicated that currently, in addition to being busy with the filming of "Grand Master", he has also been working on a commercial – in his posting, he uploaded a picture of himself with cinematographer Xia Yong Kang as well as other crew members. After only 1 day, the popular actor already has over 26,000 fans “following” him and one posting alone already has over 2,200 replies.

Tony’s wife, actress Carina Lau, also joined Weibo yesterday and posted 1 message so far, stating “Hi Everyone, I am Carina Lau”. Tony and Carina have yet to “follow” each other on Weibo – in fact, so far, both of them have only added production company Jet Tone Films to their “Follow” lists.

Other Weibo news:

Yesterday was TVB actress Charmaine Sheh’s 35th birthday. Currently enjoying a break from filming series, Charmaine posted a birthday picture on her Weibo yesterday. In the picture, she and 2 other friends are wearing animal masks with the numbers 1, 2, and 3 on them – Charmaine says that the 3 of them are the “Happy Three Musketeers”. Charmaine is also holding a birthday cake in the picture and making funny faces for the camera. In her post, in addition to thanking everyone for all the birthday wishes, she also wishes everyone happiness and joy.

Source: Ming Pao
Translation: llwy12 @ AsianFanatics

Theresa Fu watches Category III movies to learn how to be sexy

Recently many young models are taking advantage of the Spring weather to show their chest, every one of them had a "career line". Even Theresa Fu who always had a pure image began to pick up on the trend. Yesterday while rehearsing for the dance to her new song, she often used both of her hands to cover her "career line" that she's not familiar with. She exposed that recently because of her hard efforts at dance rehearsal, she increased her cup size. In addition, to do well on her dance routine, she would watch category III movies to learn how do sexy expressions.

Reporters teased that her "career line" is quite amazing? She modestly said that the new generation models have better ones than her, she laughed: "I am a big girl now, we all know that I debuted when I was 17 years old. Of course I'm not the same now!" This year the 26 year old Theresa is not a little girl anymore, so she's trying to change her image into a sexy one, fans are very supportive of her. She said that dancing while wearing high heels made her foot swell up and the bizarre thing was that she danced so much even her cup size increased. She embarrassingly said: "I am old now, my body figure has changed. (What is your current cup size now?) Just a little cup size increase, still normal. I'm not a G or E cup."

Theresa happily expressed that her company spent HK$400,000 to invite the concert dance popular of Korean singers Rain and Wonder Girls to teach her the dance routine. The new dance required her to twist her waist and pose around her male dancers, Theresa said that her instructor is strict as he said her expression wasn't sexy enough. The dance instructor recommended that she watch some category III movies to learn how to do those sexy expressions. She said: "Teacher gave me a few movies to watch and hope that I can learn the expressions and not appear so cute." She even asked her instructor to recommend her some sites where she can watch the category III movies, doing all her homework.

In the past, Theresa has often went off tune when she performed on "JSG", asked if she's afraid it will happen again when she performs her new song? She said: "I have to accept criticisms, I will work even harder in practicing my songs and dance, won't disappoint audience."

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Kevin Cheng leaves scratch marks on Myolie Wu's face after intense love scene

Yesterday Kevin Cheng was shooting for the outdoor scenes of TVB series "Anger on the Street" and attracted many people to surround the location, it was quite a lively atmosphere. Kevin plays a lawyer in the series and because there were a lot of legal terms used in the dialogue, he often NGed. He said: "In law, we can't add our own lines, there are several court scenes in this series, quite challenging, but it helps train my memory."

Before Kevin and Myolie Wu had quite a bit of intense love scenes, the other day he and Myolie were shooting a passionate scene on the ping pong table, he said: "It's considered to be one of the most intense scenes for me. During filming, we let ourselves go pulling up shirts and scratching backs. The outcome wasn't too sexual and it was funny. After filming, Myolie's whole face was scratched up by my facial hair roots." Also, it was said that Stephen Wong is pursuing Natalie Tong, Kevin frankly said that he doesn't believe that and implied that Stephen has a girlfriend already.

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

45 year old Carina Lau & Sandra Ng gives it one last try to get pregnant

After Carina Lau married Tony Leung in 2008, she had always planned to have a baby for the Leung family, however was unsuccessful ever since.

This year turning 45, Carina still has no luck in getting pregnant and even expressed that she doesn't follow the trend of having children and to leave it al to fate. Actually Carina already approached a doctor for embryo implantation earlier and so far she's still not pregnant. All her friends are worried about her and are actively looking for ways to get pregnant.

Recently, both Carina and Sandra Ng are rumored to be using Chinese herbal medicine to get pregnant, hoping to give it one last go before it's too late. Reporters asked Sandra to confirm, she did not deny.

Source: Tom.com
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Angelababy Scared to Watch a Movie with Huang Xiao Ming Again


While Angelababy attended a function today, she mentioned that she once recieved a gift from a male friend, and inside were underwears. But she said that this male friend is just a simple friend of hers. She explained that she never received these kinds of gift from her rumoured boyfriends, William Chan Wei Ting, and Huang Xiao Ming. Reporters asked Angelababy if she would give underwears as a gift to Huang Xiao Ming, she replied "Underwears are too cheap". Reporters then brought up that Huang Xiao Ming will be coming to Hong Kong sometime in the next couple of days, Angelababy said that she knew. Being caught by reporters at the movies with Huang Xiao Ming earlier in Beijing, when being asked if the two of them will go to the movies again together, she immediately replied "No."

Source: HK Yahoo News
Translated by: tiffanyliu_312 @ http://tvbnewsworld.blogspot.com/

Katrina Kaif can't make love and Ranbir Kapoor can't say fuck

Katrina Kaif can't make love and Ranbir Kapoor can't say fuckThe tension over the censoring of Raajneeti is over. But not without some vital scenes featuring Ranbir Kapoor and Arjun Rampal getting the chopper. Arjun Rampal's love-making scene with Katrina has been reduced drastically.

Says the director Prakash Jha regretfully, “It was a very aesthetically shot love making scene. Arjun and Katrina are two very beautiful people.And they made love to the camera. The Tribunal felt it was a bit too explicit for a 'UA' audience. I didn't argue.”

However Katrina who had dropped her normal inhibitions for the sake of her role and character is none too pleased with her labour of love-making going to waste.

But the director can breathe easy now.Prakash Jha's week- long battle with the censor board ended on Tuesday with the Tribunal viewing the film and granting it a 'UA' certificate. Jha had challenged the censorboard's decision earlier last week to grant Raajneeti an 'A' certificate with cuts.

Apparently the censorboard had earlier objected to two sequences one showing the rigging of elections by fitting ballot boxes with specially designed gadgets and the other showing a female politician offering sex in exchange for an election ticket.

Jha wouldn't listen to any talk of cuts with the censorboard.

Says Jha, “An 'A' certificate brings on a specific mind-set on the audience. They think the film has sleazy content. So I preferred to let the film be referred to the Tribunal.”

Jha sees the reduction of the Katrina-Ranbir love-making scene as a blow.

“The love scene was absolutely essential. Unlike other directors I had not shot extra footage so that the censors could take away whatever portion they liked.

I had shot the love-making scene exactly the way it was meant to be. I've had to reduce it by half.”

Says Jha, “It's a disappointment to all of us. I've also had to beep out the F… word uttered by Ranbir and Arjun Rampal in two different places in the plot.

Ex-justice Usha Mehra who headed the Tribunal requested me to do away with the f…k word. It didn't make a difference.”

Incidentally several recent Hindi films were plastered with expletives in Hindi and English.

Also Arjun's volatile character in Raajneeti shouts lurid and graphic expletives Hindi at a police officer. These remain intact while the 'f' word is gone.

Harry Potter end makes Emma Watson sad

Harry Potter end makes Emma Watson sadFor actress Emma Watson, the end of Harry Potter film franchise is like “someone is dying”. The 20-year-old, who launched her screen career as a child playing the character Hermione Granger, said the eight-part film series had been an “emotional” journey.

At the National Movie Awards, the cast and producers revealed they were in the last two weeks of shooting the final instalment of the saga. Co-star Daniel Radcliffe, 20, also echoed Watson’s sadness, saying he would be “devastated” when filming ends. However, he said that the films marked his transition to adulthood.

The pair was speaking at the function, where they collected the Special Recognition prize for the series and the Family award for ‘Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince’. “None of us could say that we predicted this kind of love and recognition. It's just incredible,” the Telegraph quoted Watson as saying.

“I'm just so unbelievably proud to have been part of this. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. Just watching the compilation of all the past films was really emotional for me. I feel like someone's dying, I know that sounds like an exaggeration but I really do. I'm not planning to do anything this summer - I'm going to need time to collect myself and get myself back together a bit. So I'll take a bit of a break,” she added.

Speaking on life after Hogwarts, Radcliffe added: “It's going to be bizarre. I'm going to be devastated. It's going to be very, very sad because it's been such an important part of my life. There will never be one scene in any of the Harry Potters
that, when I watch it, won't trigger a series of memories about what that day was about and what I was doing. So everything is so linked to my life and growing up. But at the same time, it will be exciting. It puts a pretty nice punctuation mark on my adolescence. I feel grown-up now.”

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Angry Netizens makes a "Bonsai Lydia"; Lydia Tong still doesn't know wrong

Lydia Tong's recent upload of a "Bonsai Cat" led to many people and artists hating her, saying that she doesn't care and doesn't know that she's wrong. Although the last two days she's been apologizing, there are still people who believe that she didn't mean it and that she still doesn't know she is wrong. Yesterday Lydia quoted a famous phrase from the bible: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone" in response to her haters. Looks like she's still trying to challenge the public and feels that people aren't qualified to criticize her. Many responded to her comment: "Don't abuse the bible."

Also, some angry Netizens photoshopped her photo into the baby bottle making her the new "Bonsai Lydia" as a way to silently protest. Joyce Tang responded: "That's your retribution!"

After the "Bonsai Cat" incident, although Lydia has learned a lesson and got a lecture from her mother (Isabella Kau), she strongly stressed that she never had intentions of animal cruelty. She wrote on her Weibo: "Can never please everyone, but no regrets to the conscience."

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

"Transsexual Miss HK": Singtao surveys 50 people, 28% think Anne Heung looks like one

The rumors online just frightens you to death! Following the rumors of "Simon Yam sudden death due to excessive alcohol", "Miriam Yeung miscarriage" and other shocking rumors, recently there has been an exposure of a "transgender Miss Hong Kong within the last 12 years, the transgender is one of the top three." Perhaps the rumors of Miss HK doing plastic surgery wasn't strong enough, so a discovery of a transsexual Miss HK is more exciting! Many Netizens have common sense and believe the possibility is very low, but they still didn't forget to investigate further to find out it's a fact that many Miss HKs look quite manly. In Netizens eyes, these 'girls' appear to have some mustache roots?

In a poll by Singtao, participants were asked which Miss HK they thought might be a transsexual.

Results:

Anne Heung: 28%
(1998 Miss Hong Kong)

Hoyan Mok: 20%
(1993 Miss Hong Kong)

Queenie Chu: 16%
(2004 First Runner Up)

Kayi Cheung: 8%
(2007 Miss Hong Kong)

Kate Tsui: 6%
(2004 Miss Hong Kong)
Others: 22&

Singtao interviewed 50 people on their views. 84% of them did not believe in the transsexual rumors. Some of the comments are:

Miss Man: "A transsexual Miss HK, that terrifying? No evidence, Netizens can say anything they want. Is it just a big Gag?"

Miss Leung: "Queenie Chu has a mouth like a man. The figure of her mouth seems too defined, looks fake."

Miss Mak: "I don't believe there is a transsexual Miss HK, that is just way too exaggerated. At most is probably just plastic surgery, but one Miss HK really does have a mouth like a man, Anne Heung!"

One person said: "Kate Tsui cut her hair short for her role in "On the First Beat" and was acting like a tomboy. Looking at her more closely, I think she does look somewhat like a man."

Source: Singtao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU