Choi and Cheng bellyflop on marriage claims
The biggest splash in the world of Greater Chinese gossip this week was the relationship belly flop of Twins singer Charlene Choi (蔡卓妍) and actor Ronald Cheng (郑中基). The pair admitted last week they were breaking up but insisted they weren’t married in Los Angeles four years ago. Then their marriage certificate turned up. They were so busted! As a result, they were forced to hold a press conference and clear the matter up. Which was no easy matter. “Even though we...
Zhang Yimou and damage limitation
Zhang Yimou (张艺谋) has been on the defensive since a TV report before the Spring Festival claimed he was unfilial – which is like one of the worst things you can call a man in Chinese society. While entertainers in the West (think Eminem) can get away with slagging off their moms, it just doesn’t happen here, where we’re more civilized. After the great director’s A Simple Noodle Story (三枪拍案惊奇) was released the TV program in question claimed Zhang did not care f...
Kelly Chen
After finishing her studies in the US, Kelly Chen (陈慧琳) returned to Hong Kong in 1994. She shot to fame after starring in two music videos by Jacky Cheung (张学友), one of Hong Kong’s “Four Heavenly Kings,” and, for her pains, the media crowned her a Taiwan actress Brigitte Lin (林青霞) look-alike. As a singer, Chen has won numerous awards and has enjoyed strong support in Asia, Australia, the US and even Africa. After getting married in October 2008, Chen gave birth to a...
Ambrouse Hui held for incitement
Actor Ambrouse Hui (许绍洋) was arrested yesterday for allegedly inciting gangsters to beat up revelers in a nightclub when he was celebrating his birthday last year. He was later released due to insufficient evidence. Hui, who starred in idol-type TV series in Taiwan such as Lavender (薰衣草), went to club SPARK on the night of October 17. He tried to chat up a pretty lady seated at the next table, but was asked to leave by her boyfriend. A fight ensued and Hui and his friends we...
Ling Wei-wei
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Ling Wei-wei (凌葳威), known as the “Queen of Pimps,” started working at a men’s club at 17 to help support her family. She won sixth in the Miss Chinese Taipei beauty contest when she was 21. Under financial pressure, she started work at a men’s club and started frequenting TV talk shows to expose the dark secrets of the demi-monde. She once said eight out of 10 female celebrities are engaged in prostitution, with politicians or rich businessmen. As for herself, Ling once said: ...
Ma Yili NOT beaten up by hubby
It must be something in the air because there seem to be a lot of spurious domestic beating claims recently. As you will no doubt recall Little S (小S) and her husband Mike Hsu (許雅鈞) are hoping to earn a tidy sum off Apple Daily when that paper claimed Hsu was beating on his wife. Now, mainland actress Ma Yili (马伊琍) has been attracting the attention of the social services, after leaving a post on her blog claiming her husband Wen Zhang (文章) was hitting her around. S...
B-list model and “Queen of Pimps” caught bang to rights
A former Miss Chinese Taipei finalist dubbed the "Queen of Pimps" and a B-list model who dabbled in drug dealing have been nabbed by police in Taipei. The discovery of a diary of important government officials and businessmen is expected to lead to further sordid revelations. Watch this space! But the story starts with Timi Hsiao (aka Hsiao Yi-ting, 蕭依婷) who had her three seconds of fame when she appeared in a Jay Chou (周杰倫) video. Regrettably, the 27 year old was also p...
Karen Mok sidesteps love claims
Karen Mok (莫文蔚), who was dumped last year at extreme altitude by actor/director Stephen Fung (冯德伦) after nine years of being together, appears to have found a new man in her life. He’s the producer and musician, Zhang Yadong (张亚东), who formed the “Iron Triangle” of success with lyricist Lin Xi (林夕) and Faye Wong (王菲) at the beginning of the millennium. Zhang has been working with Mok on her new album, scheduled for release this summer. The Internet bu...
Gigi Leung suffers for her art
Having sesame paste smeared all your face and eating unripe durian fruit is a tough job, but someone has to do it. Gigi Leung (梁咏琪), 33, did all this and more for her latest film Just Another Pandora’s Box (越光宝盒), in which she stars alongside Betty Sun (孙俪) and Ronald Cheng (郑中基). Since she had to bare her belly in one scene and didn’t want to relieve the call of nature in the desert, where she was filming, Leung said she didn’t eat much – except durians....
No crime, no time?
While China’s economy has reformed and opened up since 1978 the same cannot be said of its approach to morality. This is shown by a case in Nanjing, where 22 swingers are being prosecuted for criminal licentiousness. The 14 men and eight women in the Jiangsu province city voluntarily participated in 18 wife-swapping parties, according to the Procuratorial Daily. The wife-swapping ring was led by associate professor Ma Yaohai (马尧海), 53, who set up a chat room on the Internet...
Can't trust men
It has to be said that there are bastards out there and not all video sex tapes are sordid attempts to give a career lift to struggling models or actresses. Take, for example, the case of Zhai Ling (翟凌), the auto show model who was catapulted to international stardom on the basis of an uploaded video that shows her sucking her ex-boyfriend's lollipop and riding his horse while jiggling her breasts. The picture quality is poor and it looks like what it probably is: A private, home-made...
Kong Ming
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Gong Mi
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Gong Mi (贡米), a controversial contestant in Happy Girls 2009, is known for her strong resemblance to Hong Kong superstar Cecilia Cheung (张柏芝). Gong, 19, made the headlines, first due to her good looks, then because of a rumor that she had plastic surgery. It has also been revealed that Cheung’s former agent was her manager and helped her develop her showbiz career. Gong withdrew from the Happy Girls contest in June 2009 claiming she was ill, but achieved her goal of gettin...
Yu knocks Yi back
Clearly, Harlem Yu (庾澄慶) still has feelings for his ex, the incorrigible Annie Yi (伊能靜). Reporters buttonholed the "Godfather of R 'n' B" on Tuesday while recording his show The One Million Singer (百萬大歌星) and asked him whether he was planning a reconciliation with Yi. The couple divorced after a nine-year marriage when Yi was caught playing away from home. Recently, however, the lyrical Yi has been expressing her regrets on her blog and appeared to be asking fo...
Edison relaunches career in Taipei
Edison Chen (陈冠希) is back. But not where he was, in Hong Kong. The Canadian-Chinese entertainer appeared in Taipei at a jeans fashion show, looking every inch the bad boy in rolled up denims and smoldering attitude. In a taste of what is to come if he does get back into the region's entertainment circles, he was asked by reporters if his scheduled new album would be about love. This was a reference to his sex tapes scandal, in which eight prominent Hong Kong actresses or singers w...
Choi’s eternal flame blows out
Last month the actor/singer Ronald Cheng (郑中基) was interviewed about his eternal love for fellow thespian and chanteuse Ah Sa (阿Sa), aka Charlene Choi. He admitted he had her name tattooed on his inside arm and said wedding bells would be chiming soon. But on Tuesday, Hong Kong media reports said the couple were married already and got secretly wed in the United States four years ago. None of it was true. At a press briefing yesterday to promote her new film, Ah Sa dropped th...
Mimi Zhang
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Mimi Zhang came to national attention in 1989, aged 24, when she won third place in a singing contest organized by the Ministry of Culture. Then in 1990, she was champion in a CCTV-sponsored national singing competition. In 1991, she pushed the envelope for Chinese singers, at that time, when she published her biography The Weeping Heart (哭的心). In 1993, she was cold-shouldered in Chinese entertainment circles after a serious dispute with influential singer Mao Ning (毛宁) over a...
Game over for A-mei’s love
Diva A-mei (阿妹) has broken up with her toy boy basketball player Sam Ho (何守正), after three years of relative bliss. This ends the most-talked about “older sister, younger brother love” (姐弟恋) relationship in the Chinese-speaking pop world. Older sister, younger brother is the Chinese way of referring to the love between an older woman and younger man. A-mei, 37, (pictured right) has had trouble keeping Ho, 11 years her junior, on the leash. The baller was spotted m...
Mimi Zhang
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Fan Fan clucks at hen party
Christine Fan’s (范瑋琪, aka Fan Fan) recent birthday party was a memorable one. A plethora of celebrities turned up for the costume party themed on the military, teachers and public servants, to celebrate the host’s soon-to-be-gone single status. She was recently engaged to fellow entertainer Blackie (黑人) at an American football stadium. Notable attendees were Little S (小S) and her hubby Mike Hsu (許雅鈞), who looked happy together despite Apple Daily’s claim they...
Stanley Huang
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Raised in California, Stanley Huang (黃立行) made his debut in Taiwan as a member of the boy group LA Boyz, with his elder brother Jeff Huang (黃立成) and Steven Lin (林智文), in 1992. LA Boyz basically brought over US hip-hop, and Sinicized or Taiwanized it, take your pick. The group was dissolved in 1997. In 2000, Stanley returned to Taiwan and released his own albums. He won the top honor in 2005 as the Best Male Mandarin Artist at Taiwan’s 16th Golden Melody Awards, the Taiwan...
Little S eyes Apple
Taiwan’s Apple Daily is one of the brightest papers in the Chinese-language media ferment, but that doesn’t mean it always gets it right. In fact, some people say it’s wrong a lot of the time. Case in point, appears to be a report earlier this week about a domestic violence “incident” between Little S (小S) and her husband Mike Hsu (許雅鈞). According to Apple Daily, the TV host came home late one night, they quarreled and he smacked her around. The thing is: There’s...
♡ Nurse Pan ♡
China’s netizens, in awe of Pan Mei’er's (潘美儿) combination of caring personality and looks, have crowned her “The Most Beautiful Nurse.” She has been taking care of leprosy patients for the past 13 years and her devotion has earned her an award for being one of the China’s top 10 women role models. In 1997, the graduate from Huzhou Health School was appointed to the leprosy section of the Institute of Prevention and Treatment of Skin Disease, in Deqing county, a mountai...
Zhang Fengyi
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