TVB Chinese Hongkong Taiwan Artist News Gossip
On 7/8, “Rocker Newcomer King” Jing Chang held a press conference for her new album [The Opposite Me]. Cyndi Wang, who guest-starred in Jing’s latest MV “Love’s Option”, specially prepared a gift for her colleague. The gift consisted of an “Crocodile Dentist” game surrounded by a sea of chocolates.
Cyndi said: “I know that YunJing really likes to play games so I picked this game for her. It has a particular connection to her newest single ‘Love’s Option’ because it’s just like love. You’ll never know – when you press on a particular tooth, you might face getting bitten by the crocodile and getting hurt. On the other hand, you could be lucky and receive a chocolate candy in return.”
Danson Tang, actor in hit idol-dramas such as “Hana Kimi” and “Rolling Love”, returns after a 17-month hiatus with his third album “D一秒” (a play on words and translates to “The First Second”). For his first single, “I’m Back”, he especially invited Korean group f(x)’s Amber to perform the rap, which is pretty cool as Amber is actually Chinese and also speaks Mandarin. Amber also flew to Taiwan in early May to appear in the music video that will be released June 7.
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.
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
TVB and Big 4 record companies copyright issue has been troubling for a few months now, the ones who are suffering the greatest impact are of course the singers. It was rumored that TVB appointed their “god-son” Hacken Lee to be this year’s World Cup host, TVB producer (Lee Hon Yuen) reveals: “We have always collaborated well, have chemistry and it’s not about the money. Hacken won’t mind.” Recently it was said that within Universal Group Music, a division of two groups started one named “Universal Group” and the other “TVB Group”. Yesterday Universal’s first brother Hacken Lee attended an iCable event and especially arranged two reporters to interview him, unfortunately that did not help, Hacken still answered in Mandarin.
Hacken maintained his “conservative” and “traditional” attitude to clarify that he accepted iCable’s interview because he respects the contract: “At this time, I am responsible for the duties under the contract, we’ll talk when the contract expires. (Will you renew the contract?) I don’t know.” Hacken’s contract with both TVB and Universal are about to expire, however Hacken betrays Universal: “I signed with TVB already, so I can go on TVB programs. However, my record company said I can’t go on TVB, I don’t know which TV network I should go on! (Will you appear on other networks?) No, this is just my perspective. After new years, I will discuss with a manager, it’s troublesome and I have a headache.”
THIS might be sad news for Jay Chou fans: The Taiwanese pop star/actor prefers not to have overly intimate scenes in his movies.
The reason?
He wants to come across as a decent guy.
IN some ways, Suki Low’s sophomore album Ladies’ Night is her debut.
In the local Mandopop market, that is.
Last year, the One In A Million Season One winner dropped her debut album, a Malay offering titled Finally | Akhirnya.
Yesterday Raymond Lam appeared at a Christmas event and looked tired. He revealed that he just returned from Shanghai to attend a ribbon cutting event and because of the local temperatures, he fell caught a cold while coming back to Hong Kong. In the recent years, Raymond has been very busy working, he admitted that this year he had to pay off over a million in taxes, quite painful. He said: “Actually my income grows every year, but I haven’t done many series lately, so I had more opportunities to go out and earn real money! Next year, I will be even busier, working on a new film and will soon start recording for my new Mandarin album. But what I really want is to open a few more concerts.”
Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU
After Stephy Tang had her incident “typo story” (mistakes in her book), she gets severely criticized once again for her poor English. There are Netizens who said earlier when Stephy and Justin Lo accepted an interview in English at a television station, her responses were not so good. Yesterday Stephy plans to came up with more excuses.
Khalil Fong held his “Timeless Live in Hong Kong 2009″ in three consecutive days in Wan Chai. Last night, it was his first show, implementing less talk and more songs to the audience. His parents and several friends came to show their support including rumored girlfriend Fiona Sit. Fiona attended with her other rumored boyfriend Jaycee Chan.