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Ella Koon and Jacqueline Chong attended the TED BAKER 2010 Autumn-Winter Fashion Show. After Jacqueline got a boob job, the pushed up chest Ella Koon seems that she didn't dare to look at her, she laughed: "I didn't really push up my chest on purpose, perhaps its the cutting of my outfit's problem." How does Ella feel about Jacqueline's boob job? Ella said backstage: "She's really beautiful, the most important thing is natural. I am happy for her." She expressed that because she's not brave enough, so will not consider getting plastic surgery, even if it was removing her wisdom tooth, she needs anesthesia.

Jacqueline expressed that after undergoing plastic surgery, she did not get a pay increase nor did the advertisers asked her to be more sexy. She felt that after work it's much more "convenient", don't need to waste time taking off the tape. Asked if her boyfriend Deep Ng has seen it? She laughed: "A little, but he did not praise directly, but other people has!"

From Beijing, Jenny Xu won "China Model Star Contest Top Ten Most Photogenic Model" in 2006. A year ago, she officially started developing her career in Hong Kong. Earlier she shot an advertisement with Moses Chan, it was rumored that Kevin Cheng and Jenny were match-made together by Moses. Although she denied dating Kevin, every time she speaks of Kevin, she would always let out a sweet smile. She said: "I don't watch much TV, only know that he is an artist, don't even know his name. He is my friend's friend and is not as complicated as you all make it seem. That night, I went to his house with a friend, there were other people who were there too. (What do you think of him?) He is a lot older than me, like a big brother, very gentlemen. (Is there a chance to develop further?) I don't know how the future is. Romance, just let it flow naturally."

Coming to Hong Kong to work alone, she would feel lonely and wants to date. Jenny's ideal partner is someone who is mature, but that does not mean someone older and appearance is not that important. When asked if Kevin would be a even better boyfriend since he's mature and handsome? She smiled: "We are all just wishing." She said that she is not dating currently and when she does in the future, she will admit it. Jenny then denied that she's familiar with Moses: "We only met during work, we didn't keep in touch after nor does she have his phone number."

Yesterday Charmaine Sheh accepted a CRHK interview. She reveals that her new series Can't Buy Me Love averaged at 33 points, peaking at 37 points. As for the complaints about TVB broadcasting the Philippines tour bus incident prior to the Can't premiere, Charmaine felt that it is TVB's decision or they weren't able to change the schedule in such a short time period. She stressed: "Hope Can't Buy Me Love can constantly send out positive energy and relieve everyone a bit in this unhappy moment." Charmaine hopes Can't will be like Beyond reaching 50 points. Speaking of Louis Yuen once saying that if the ratings averaged 50 points, he asks the female cast to wear men swim trunks, she laughed: "I want to discuss this with Kam Jeh (Lee Heung Kam) and Kuk Jeh (Susanna Kwan)."

Charmaine expressed that later Can't will have more promotions, and won't be embarrassed to see Moses Chan. Before it was said that she had romantic injuries, so she went back to Mainland to film series. Charmaine said that she wasn't in Hong Kong and didn't see the reports. She also reveals that in her new series Colorful World of Sister Fa, she plays a girl with 10 year old mentality, which is a child role, so she only puts on little foundation daily, almost appearing with plain colors. Speaking of rumored boyfriend Kevin Cheng's birthday earlier, she said that she did not give him a gift, but did send him a SMS wishing him a happy birthday, he also replied with a "Thank You".

Also last night, Moses Chan, Charmaine Sheh, Lee Heung Kam, Susan Tse, Louis Yuen and the cast for Can't Buy Me Love were recording a new episode for Super Trio Game Master. Kam Jeh even played with the younger generation without fear, but Charmaine was worried she might get lower back pains, fearing that she'll play so much she'll forget about her old injuries. Moses Chan expressed that the games are much less challenging than before.

Last night, the shy boy Moses was often getting teased. As for Can't reaching 37 points in ratings, Louis Yuen wanted Moses to wear a triangle swimsuit to make coffee. All the other artists applaud in support of the idea, making Moses ears turn red and laughed foolishly, but he didn't oppose to Louis either. Moses was slightly surprised by the high ratings, he believes that the series can bring relaxation and happiness to audience.

Charmaine and Moses played "ping pong sucking", but even after a few times they didn't touch lips, Eric expressed that it wasn't acceptable, so the studio audience shouted loudly "Bernice Liu" to harass Moses, making him lose to Charmaine.

Yesterday Bernice Liu attended a promotion for a photography competition hosted by Longines. She expressed that she has collected nearly 20 cameras, the most expensive one is HK$7 million. Asked if rumored boyfriend Moses Chan wants to be her model? Bernice laughed: "I didn't take any photos of him, nor did I take any photos of naked men." Bernice exposes that she takes nude photos of herself: "After entering the industry, every year I would do Birthday Suit (nude) photos for memories. Ten years later, my children can see how beautiful my body figure was back then. At first , I took photos on film, but then transferred to digital." She expressed that for now, her nude photos have not been seen by anyone.

The 2010 Miss Asia Pageant (ATV) will be held at the end of this November in Hong Kong. This year's rule is resumed to the old one in 2007, allowing Chinese in various places to participate. However, because of the hostage crisis happened earlier in Philippine, it's known the organization decided to not invite Filipino contestant to participate in this year's pageant to prevent deepen the grudge between Hong Kong and Philippine. The organization also disclosed they worried if Filipino contestant comes to HK, they would be discriminated by others and thus affecting their mood during the competition. So they decided after holding a meeting that this year they won't invite Philippine representatives to compete.

ATV's PR spokesman confirmed the news on the phone: "To prevent Filipino contestant feeling embarrassed after coming to HK, so they won't be invited to compete in this pageant. Hong Kongers are still sad about this tragedy. In order to prevent Hong Kongers feeling embarrassed, this action doesn't count as an abuse of power. We're not discriminating Filipinos. We are considering their feelings, don't want them to get hurt emotionally."

Kenny Wong and JJ Jia attended a fitness event yesterday. The day before, Kenny and John Chiang finished filming the fighting scenes for TVB new series Female Fist and broke his ring finger. Yesterday it was seen that Kenny had a plastic support for his finger yesterday. Asked if his finger would be twisted in the long-term? Kenny laughed: "Well then have to see if I'm well-behaved or not. Later, I have to make-up the filming. I can't move too much when taking a shower and the support can easily come off. (When filming again, will John Chiang be paranoid?) No, he's so amazing, his kung fu can break my finger muscle." First time filming a martial arts series and got injured, Kenny said: "Accidents do happen."

"King of Gambling" Stanley Ho's daughter Florinda Ho (何超雲) announced her break up with "Fur Prince" Andy Wong. It was recently rumored that Florinda and Raymond Lam are secretly in contact, but the two used "just for laughs" as their response to the rumors.

Raymond and Florinda, one prince and one princess, although Raymond is 10 years older than Florinda, both are still very attractive. In July, Florinda supported 2 nights of Raymond's concert and visited him backstage. The day before during the film The Jade and the Emerald sponsor dinner, both Florinda and Raymond attended.

Rumored with Raymond, Florinda revealed through her good friend denying to the media that she is dating Raymond. Yesterday reporters contacted Florinda to confirm the rumors, but the call flew to voicemail and she did not respond. Later, Florinda's good friend provided an explanation to the rumors, her response is: "just for laughs" and expressed that there is no such thing.

Raymond responded to the rumors and also said the same thing: "just for laughs! No response." Asked if Raymond knows Florinda? He expressed that night at The Jade and the Emerald sponsor dinner, they did greet one another.

Yesterday was Niki Chow's 31st birthday. Many of her entertainment circle friends especially went to a hotel to celebrate with her. Her older sister Kathy Chow, Natalie Tong, Anita Mui's old manager (Marianne) attended the party. Niki dressed very nicely, wearing a black sleeveless shirt and flashy accessories and painted bright red nail polish to match. She appeared very feminine.

It was understood that her good friends pushed out a fireworks birthday cake at 12am and group sang the birthday song to the birthday girl, surprising Niki. Niki felt very touched and her eyes were teary. At 2am, Niki and Marianne walked out together, Niki had red cheeks, but was no drunk. When reporters took photographs, she smiled and was very friendly. Then she got into a friend's car and left.

Niki thanked everyone's birthday wishes on Weibo, she thanked fans for giving her a memorable birthday party. She also thanks good friends for bringing her a birthday party that's full of love. She also wrote her birthday wish: "I hope for good health, everyone is happy and blessed, world full of love! I love you all!"

Jackie Chan has a reputation in the entertainment industry and is respected as the "Big Brother" by other artists. However, Eddie Ng gives no face, responding to Jackie's Philippines hostage comment, criticizing him of not using his brain before he speaks and publicly told Jackie to shut up.

The day before, Jackie tweeted on Twitter commenting on the Philippines hostage incident, which seems to be supporting the Filipino police. Many artists publicly criticized Jackie's comment, that it was not the right thing to say. Even good friend Eric Tsang said that Jackie's comment this time was very wrong. Yesterday, Jackie made a public apology for his Twitter comment, expressing that the comment was written by his U.S assistant on behalf of him and that it did not completely express his true intentions.

Brave enough to challenge Jackie, Eddie Ng wrote on Weibo yesterday that the best thing for Jackie to do is: "Keep your big mouth shut!"

Eddie responded to Jackie's clarification and public apology on Weibo yesterday: "English is not good and needs an American assistant to help him write a comment in English. After making a mistake, then say that it's not what he means! Ah, talks too much! The next time you speak, please find someone who has a brain to teach you how to speak. You do not use your brain at all in your words! Or maybe next time don't say something that will make people hate you! It is best to Keep Your Mouth Shut." Eddie's response was praised by many Netizens, saying that Ging Sir has enough Gutsy (guts). Said it well, there aren't many people who have the courage to publicly scold at Jackie.

The day before, Jackie Chan commented on the HK tourists held hostage and killed by a gunman in the Philippines on Twitter, leaving 8 dead and 7 wounded. The comment was suspected to support the Filipino police and he extended a 'friendship hand', representing the people of Hong Kong that there is no hatred. Jackie's comment sparked public anger, saying that Jackie is not qualified to represent the HK People, even good friend Eric Tsang thought that he was really wrong this time and that he needed to provide an explanation to the citizens. Yesterday afternoon, Jackie expressed that the Twitter comment was made by his assistant from the U.S. and his actual intentions are different. He stressed that he is a 100% Hong Kong person, and is feeling sorry over the tragedy that must be investigated. Towards the misunderstanding caused through the Twitter message, he apologizes.

"Solar Project 2010 Southern Music Concert" was held yesterday. All participating singers and audience wore a yellow ribbon on their left wrist in respect of the Manila tour bus hostages victims and their families.

When the singers sang A Little Candle (一點燭光), everyone raised their left hands with the yellow ribbon, it was a very moving atmosphere. Leo hoped that our grief and anger turns into power, he hopes the lost victims rests in peace and gives support to the victims' family. Leo donated HK$100,000 in concern of the orphans lives and growth and also to support the victims' family. Leo said: "I saw the news while filming in Mainland, very heartbreaking and very angry. Right now I hope to turn troubles into support."

Joey Yung also felt very unhappy over the incident, after going through troubles, will be even more united, love conquers all. It proves that the people of Hong Kong "cannot be bullied". Joey used music to support the survivors, performing her new song The Wizard of Oz.

The cast of Can't Buy Me Love including Charmaine Sheh, Moses Chan and Fala Chen attended the promotional event in Olympian City yesterday. They put in the effort to play games with the audience at the location and brought a message of love through the promotion, giving positive energy to the people of Hong Kong.

In the series, Charmaine stood out by playing a shrewd Princess, when asked if she's just being herself? Charmaine said: "It's just acting, I don't have the Princess Sickness! (Afraid audience wont' accept it?) Nope, have to try out all different styles when acting in order to give a fresh new feeling to audience." For this collaboration, Charmaine successfully created sparks with Moses and it estimated that the series will reach an average of 33 points in TV ratings. Regarding the Manila tour bus hostage tragedy happening during the premiere of this series, Charmaine expressed that she hopes the series can bring comfort to the victims' family and plus it is a positive story, so can help the victims bravely face the future. As for Moses Chan, he praises Charmaine's good acting: "Shrewd Princess is not easy to be accepted by people, but she handled it very well. (Does the one besides you have princess sickness?) Luckily haven't encountered one."

Also, Fala Chen reveals her comedic side in the series, asked if her boyfriend has praised her comedic skills? Fala laughed: "He likes Louis Yuen and Moses Chan more. (Jealous?) I am jealous of Big EX (Louis)! (After this series premiered, the Manila incident occurred and also clashes with the demonstration, has it been a big impact?) Hope this series can unite and bring a positive message to audience." Fala has great kung fu skills in the series, but she still had a frown on her face: "It was really difficult shooting those action scenes, but in the end only 10 seconds of it was shown, feel really disappointed."

Alan Tam, Hacken Lee and Twins arrived in Macau the night before for a concert. Twins members Gillian Chung (Ah Gil) was performing and the microphone suddenly failed on her, and even when she switched to another one, it still did not help. In the end, Charlene Choi continued to show off the spirit of Twins, by sharing a microphone with Ah Gil. Twins expressed that it is not the first time that these little accidents happened, but there are only memories through experiences. They also revealed that this is the first time they are performing in Macau, when the two girls weren't famous yet, Ah Sa said: "We only depended on lip syncing that time. At the time we didn't even have a group name yet, the MC used 'Hong Kong Newest Duo" to introduce us into the stage, couldn't help but laugh a little."

Also, Alan and Hacken teased the MC Fala Chen on stage, Hacken said: "I asked about Fala's limit before, she's really ok with anything. (Next time talk about Marge Zhuge?) No, who is that? I don't know this thing!"

Nicholas Tse's birthday is on August 29. To mourn the Hong Kongers who lost their lives in the hostage crisis, he asked assistant to wrote on Weibo last night, telling fans don't come to his filming place to celebrate birthday for him: "On the 28th (lunar birthday) and 29th, can't give him birthday gifts and cake. Don't come to filming place. Can't celebrate."

Nicholas also uploaded a picture of him, Cecilia Cheung, Kenny Kwan, and Yumiko Cheng in black shirts. They hope fans can also wear black shirts to mourn for the dead and encourage survivors to live on.

Michele Lee hasn't made a public appearance since she was rumored of 4-months pregnant. Lately she and husband Julia Hui were photographed of having dinner at a hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui and her belly is clearly visible. She also changed her usual style and wore flats instead. Michele and her husband are easy in having kids and they never went to ask help from doctors nor accepted artificial insemination. Two months ago when she was on a trip to Europe, Michele found out she is pregnant and immediately told husband that she couldn't continue the trip. Although doctor confirmed Michele is carrying a daughter, but the Hui family is still very happy and nervous for the baby. Julian even expressed he likes daughter more. He believes Michele the beauty can give birth to a little beauty and continues the beauty legend.

It's known the Hui family already hired a foreign nutritionist to set nutritious meals for Michele and also arranged the nutritionist to stay in Hong Kong. To prevent wife being disturbed by the media, Julian and Michele already moved to a hotel in Kowloon. However, this accidental pregnancy interrupted Michele's original schedule to film a Chanel commercial in Europe. Commercials for clothes and diet products in the next 10 months have to be canceled and Michele is estimated to lose at least 30 million HKD. Fortunately, many agencies are willing to cooperate and agreed to work again after Michele gives birth.

Michele's manager didn't confirm Michele's pregnancy. When asked whether Michele lost 30 million HKD because of pregnancy, he said: "Just what the magazine wrote. I always accepting jobs for her. Did I receive any good news? Today is Gaile Lok's event. I won't reply to any questions."

Famous child’s arts and crafts program Mister Maker began its Asian tour recently. Yesterday, Wayne Lai was invited to be the program’s guest for the Hong Kong region – the show will air on BBC’s children’s network. Asked how he felt about ‘debuting’ on the international scene, Wayne smiled and said he felt very happy.

Wayne expressed that he constantly works on craft projects with his son at home and feels that this is a great way to strengthen their father-son bond. His son likes to make little presents for mom and she loves to receive them. Asked if he is worried about his son drifting apart from him and his wife when he grows older, Wayne laughed and replied: “Probably won’t be that quick; in fact, just yesterday, he was listening to a ghost story and got so scared that he didn’t want to sleep all alone by himself, so he came over to sleep with us in our room -- it was quite cute. Of course, we were young once and so we definitely understand that some day, our son will want to be independent and move away, but hopefully, that will be a long ways off.”

Regarding the tragedy in the Philippines, Wayne indicated that he felt all sorts of emotions about the situation – deep pain, helplessness, sorrow, and anger. “I don’t understand why so much time was wasted and the hostages still couldn’t be saved. I saw in the newspapers today that the gunman only requested 1 million pesos, which is equal to about HKD$100,000 – that amount would have been easy to raise with contributions from just the tour group members alone – so why didn’t the Philippine government agree to the amount? If a few hundred thousand dollars could have saved the tourists, Hong Kong citizens would have most definitely paid the money without question!”

After seeing how the tragic situation in the Philippines played out, Wayne admitted that he is utterly disappointed with the country: “I told my son never to go to the Philippines, I won’t go either. The police force is supposed to be a safety net, but yet they can’t even do their basic jobs correctly – this is a reflection on the government and their inabilities when it comes to ensuring people’s safety.”

Miriam Yeung at Tung Wah Group of Hospitals made contributions where she personally designed a series of rings, as today she wore a black propaganda for the event which in order to raise funds and help the raise community awareness for support of the program.

Miriam said the arrival of the Philippines hostage and death of their love ones returned home revealing their coffins. She also said: "Every place has different levels, but ignorance can be costly to criticize it is not meaningful, the most important now is what can give it any help. "She also think we should all learn, even cherish the people around.

Gillian Chung (Ah Gil) is currently busy in Mainland filming for a new drama 大唐女巡按 and wore her Tang dynasty costume to the China International TV Expo" in Beijing. Ah Gil plays a clever patrol and is often disguised as a man. She has many different costumes, she laughed: "I still like female costumes, the Tang Dynasty female clothing are so cool!"

In the drama, Ah Gil will have a relationship with the paladin Benny Chan. As Ah Gil plays a mighty woman, the host asked her to show how a mighty woman is in front of the director. Ah Gil laughed: "Mighty Woman, I am not one in front of the director. Mighty woman? I am not considered one, I'm just a small bird."

Angela Yang (also known as AngelaBaby) has been under attack from scathing reports alleging that she had gone under the knife for cosmetic enhancements.

The rumour mill got to work again recently as the news resurfaced and her old photograph was even dug up to use as comparison to her current look.

"Those people keep harping on the rumours as if my whole face is fake. That old photo was taken when I was wearing braces so my face looked swollen. Moreover, the camera angle wasn't good."

The model revealed that she has plans to visit a doctor for an X-ray to refute the surgery claims after finding out that actress Fan Bingbing had done something similar. Angela denied taking this move because of her boyfriend.

"I feel very tired from having to handle the stress (of the rumours). All my friends have touched my face before and know I'm innocent."

She added that her company is now trying to contact suitable doctors and should be doing the check-up at the end of the year.

Despite her anger at the report, the star broke into a smile when reporters brought up her rumoured beau Huang Xiao Ming, but avoided directly answer questions related to him.

The pair has been rumoured to be seeing each other since last year. In an earlier report, when asked if the two of them are indeed together, Xiao Ming reportedly hinted at the relationship when he told reporters that he "is not good at lying and cannot reveal too much".

TVB, ATV and iCable, the 3 TV stations held a Hong Kong wide memorial service for the Philippines tour bus hostage victims. Yesterday morning, TVB changed their logo to black and announced that a moment of silence will be held at 3pm at TVB City in Tseung Kwan O. Nearly a thousand artists participated in on the mourning, Vice-Chairman Mona Fong especially came back to attend the service and many artists stopped filming to participate in the moment including Myolie Wu, Wayne Lai, Teresa Mo, Aimee Chan, Liza Wang, etc.

During the moment of silence, Myolie, Aimee, Margie Tsang, Queenie Chu and TVB executive Virgina Lok couldn't hold it in and teared up. Eric Tsang represented everyone in sending their blessings to the survivors and their families. After the service, everyone silently went back to work.

Among them, Myolie cried the most and because she felt too sad, she was unwilling to accept an interview. Rumored boyfriend Bosco Wong rushed back to TVB City in time for the closing of the ceremony. When asked about Myolie being very emotional, Bosco did not respond directly. He expressed that he hopes the injured victim can recover soon. Liza Wang especially came back for the moment of silence, she said: "It's cruel. This time, it is a very painful experience for the people of Hong Kong. I especially came back to express my feelings. My two Filipino house workers also felt really sorry and sad." Wong Cho Lam, who has just returned from Europe, also especially attended the ceremony to express his feelings.

Yesterday Bernice Liu attended the all new skincare brand ASTALIFT press conference. The organizers made the dress code orange, Bernice appeared sexy dressed in a low-cut orange tube dress. Bernice is currently busy shooting for a new series and will be doing a dance performance with thousands of people at the peak. She is currently doing dance and kung fu practice and has lost weight due to this. She has gotten thinner in all parts of her body, yesterday when she attended the event, it appeared that her outfit did not fit on her.

Bernice said: "Because the organizers said that we have to wear orange clothing. I went to buy one on short notice, but they didn't have my size and I didn't have enough time to get it tailored." Because there was no tape, and the fact that she found out the location had mirrors on the ceilings, she did not dare to sit down to avoid exposing herself.

Asked if she watched rumored boyfriend Moses Chan and Charmaine Sheh's new series Can't Buy Me Love? She said that she wants to watch it, but is currently too busy to have time to watch. Is it because Charmaine and Moses are often flirting in the series that she'll get outraged seeing it? She denied: "Actually at this moment in time, watching happy shows is the most reasonable."

Jackie Chan Kong-sang is allaying fears the botched rescue operation in Manila would put Filipinos living in Hong Kong in harm's way.

In his twitter account, the Hollywood martial arts star extended his friendship to Filipinos and told them not to worry.

"We do not hate," he said.

Later, he added: "We already have so many natural disasters - typhoons, tsunamis, everything! We should be united and not kill or hate each other."

Chan also expressed sympathy for the widely derided Philippine police.

"If they had killed the gunman sooner, many would ask why they didn't negotiate first. And if they negotiated first, they'd ask why they didn't kill him sooner," Chan said. "So sad."

Manila officials, at least this time around, were quick to respond.

"Thank you, Mr Chan, for extending a hand of friendship," presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said.

"We grieve the tragedy. We hope the Hong Kong people will also understand our situation."

Yesterday Fala Chen dressed up nicely to attend the opening ceremony of shoe brand ECCO's new store. She admitted that lately she has been accepting more jobs, helping to promote her new series Can't Buy Me Love and taking the advantage to earn extra income, a double win. Speaking of the high ratings for the first episode, Fala said that there is a relation with the Philippines bus hostage incident that occurred that night of broadcast, but she does hope the ratings will continue rise. She really put in a lot of effort to film this series, especially the fighting scenes. Charmaine Sheh and Moses Chan have really funny scenes together.

As an American citizen, turns out that Fala has never been to the Philippines before. Fala explained: "I have a US passport, the country has long classified the local area as high altitude hazardous area. Because of safety reasons, it was suggested that Americans should not go there if not for any important reason. Back then my classmate suggested that we all go to the Philippines for a vacation, but in the end we never went."

TVB series Can't Buy Me Love premiere last night and received 36 points in TV ratings, with about 2.3 million viewers. However, the BA received 11 complaint on TVB's schedule to broadcast a comedy was inappropriate. Initially the cast for Can't Buy Me Love were going to hold a celebration for the high ratings, but Producer Miu Siu Ching canceled the celebration and said that the main idea for the series is to convey a message of love.

In response to the Philippines incident, Charmaine Sheh and Linda Chung had different reactions.

Charmaine said: "So contradictory, don't plan to celebrate. My emotions have not recovered yet. When I saw the news last night, I couldn't hold in my tears."

Linda said: "News is news, series is series, why will it be awkward? Although I am concerned of human lives, I will still support the series. (It's not the appropriate atmosphere to broadcast a comedy?) I don't know how to answer, but I believe TVB did not deliberately schedule this."

The night before, when the news came out of the tour bus hostages in the Philippines, TV ratings reached 31 points, with about 2 million viewers. However at 2pm yesterday afternoon, TVB received 12 complaints that constant reports of "all hostages dead" is disturbing. The BA received 11 complaints on the bloody news reports, lost in reality and broadcasting a relaxing show at an inappropriate time. iCable received 2 complaints for similar reasons. Also, the night before, there was a news reporter who said a swear word, TVB director of foreign affairs (Tsang Sing Ming) said that the person who swore wasn't a TVB reporter. It was a time of disorder, believe viewers will understand.

Charmaine Sheh, Raymond Lam , Toby Leung and the rest of the cast to TVB new series Colorful World of Sister Fa attended the blessing ceremony. In the series, Charmaine plays a girl with a mental age of 10, and especially got a foolish Bob haircut for the role. She also visited the school for the mentally challenged and learned from the children there. Every time Charmaine films a series, she's always rumored with the male lead, but before when she worked with Raymond in The Drive of Life, there were no rumors. Raymond laughed: "Before when I was filming with her, she was rumored with other people, I really have to reflect a little, perhaps I am not charming enough. There should be some rumors for this series!" Charmaine explained that not having any rumors with Raymond is the media's issue: "No rumors then that's good! (Are you afraid of rumors that you dislike him?) Why would I dislike Prince Fung! We have collaborated several times, known each other for a long time. An enjoyable collaboration is good."

Charmaine expressed that there is a challenge portraying this role because she has to be a girl with a mental age of 10 and develop a relationship with Raymond. She said: "My role is the female version of Ah Wong, but Roger Kwok's role already left a deep impression on viewers. I'm already 30+ years old, trying to portray a mental age of 10 girl, making it convincing is the most challenging. I went to visit the mentally challenged schools and learned the children lifestyles there."

Disappointed of low ratings

Raymond has always been supported as the candidate for the TV King title this year, but unfortunately his new series Growing Through Life is not getting good ratings, he frankly said that he is a bit disappointed: "Somewhat disappointed, we filmed the series for 5 months and I had to prepare for my concert in between, it was pretty difficult during filming. I feel the ratings were affected by the unfamiliar Mainland faces coupled with the fact that the series already finished broadcasting in Mainland. (Affect your chances of becoming TV King?) Don't stir it up so fast! Don't stir it on me! Every year, I really don't know what to say, I just want to focus on doing my part. I am also most happy that I was able to learn from Damien Lau and improve my acting. (Don't want to mention TV King because afraid of gossips or to attract criticisms due to your popularity?) It is boring, afraid to say too much."

No mood to celebrate

Can't Buy Me Love although received high ratings, Charmaine has no mood to celebrate due to the Philippines hostage incident. Also the national mourning in the Philippines is not getting anywhere. She hopes that Can't will bring happiness to viewers and relax a bit. Also, Wayne Lai accepted Eileen Cha's interview and when asked about Can't's good ratings, he expressed that it's bringing pressure to the haven't been broadcast anniversary series No Regrets.

Since revealing their lesbian relationship, Susanna Kwan and Willy Chow have often been spotted together. Earlier this week, Susanna and Willy went shopping in the Central district. Willy carried all the shopping bags and took care of Susanna throughout the outing.

Fifty-one-year-old Susanna Kwan has been dating the late “King of Instant Noodles,” Chow Man Hin’s daughter, Willy Chow Wai Lei, for three years. Susanna moved into Willy’s luxury apartment in Happy Valley last year, allowing the couple’s bonds to strengthen. During Mother’s Day, Willy, Susanna and Susanna’s godmother, Lee Heung Kam, took a vacation in Singapore together. Willy treated Susanna’s family members like they were her own kin.

Wearing a floral top and carrying a Chanel purse, Susanna and Willy, who was dressed in a metro-sexual manner, shopped at a Central district mall. They split up briefly, with Susanna looking at purses and Willy browsing at leather shoes. After shopping for half an hour, Susanna made her purchases and called Willy on the cell phone. Willy met up with Susanna again and even held the glass door open for her, acting like a “true gentleman.”

When reporters asked Susanna whether she was a date, she smiled, “No, we’re just shopping.” Susanna got into Willy’s Mercedes Benz and Willy’s chauffer drove the couple away.

Following praises on her acting in War and Beauty, Sheren Tang plays the Empress in Chiung Yao's remake of Princess Pearl (HZGG). Back then she became popular from Chiung Yao's series, so this time just by one call from Chiung Yao, Sheren immediately agrees to take part in the drama. Sheren expressed that she watched the original version of HZGG and the Empress role left a deep impression. She accepted this role because of the script and dialogue that interest her.

Sheren has always had a very professional attitude towards work. According to what the crew knows, on the first day of filming, Sheren spent a long time doing the make-up and requested that a large mirror to be placed in front of her, convenient for her to see make-up, costumes and overall appearance. Before filming, she would arrive at the set 30 minutes early and rehearse the scenes with other cast members. On the second day of filming, she took the initiative to look over the recorded scenes in the video cutting room and see if anything needs to be improved.

Earlier Steven Ma attended the Miss New York Chinese Beauty Pageant 2010 as a guest performer. Having some free time, he held an autograph session at a jewelry store in Chinatown, attracting a large group of fans' support. There were also fans from other areas especially flying over to New York to meet their idol. Many overseas Chinese fans shouted excitedly "Chung Ling" (Steven's role name in Ghost Writer), even Steven couldn't believe that he's so welcomed. As there were too many people in line for his autograph, some fans were unable to get an autograph before the session ended and started crying live on the spot.

Yesterday a Hong Thai Travel Agency tour bus going to Manila, Philippines was hijacked by a former police officer, he held the tourists in hostage. Eight Hong Kong tourists were killed from the hijack, the incident shocked the entire city! Alex To and Jessica C. who are both of Philippine descent expressed their grief and felt the incident were terrifying.

Alex To's father is a Hispanic-Filipino mix, he just returned to HK from Taiwan yesterday. Alex expressed that his whole family were at home watching the incident happen live on TV. He said: "I heard there were hostages that died, really hard to believe. I will pray for them. (There were some hostages rescued?) Lucky that there were survivors, the earlier reports said that all the hostages died, really terrifying. This kind of things cannot be said so randomly. The hostages' family members who see the report really can get frightened to death. If I were them, I would definitely have fainted."

Speaking of the slow rescue by the Philippines police, Alex could not help but blast at them: "The police should have worked faster in the rescue. They were too slow in the operation, too afraid and no planning. How can they use a rope to pull the door down? It's a whole team of police officers against one person, it's a pity that those hostages were killed, there wasn't even a helicopter. They should have use two big lights blasting into the tour bus, how can they just throw a few glow sticks and go in like that? Useless! My father seeing the Philippines police being so inefficient is very disappointed!"

Jessica Hsuan, Myolie Wu and Sunny Chan attended the blessing ceremony for TVB new costume drama The King and the Phoenixes. In the series, Jessica and Myolie do everything they can to win favor from the King, but behind-the-scenes it they are having enjoyable collaboration. Jessica said: "I get bullied by Myolie in the series, so I harm other people to protect myself. It's quite realistic, being able to film a drama like this, I have no regrets in life." Jessica admits that when she sees her four-word-phrase lines, she gets a headache: "I don't 100% understand my lines and can't really act into a deeper level. Luckily there was Sunny who directed Myolie and I the whole time. I am learning how to act in all over again." Although the story to Phoenixes is similar to War and Beauty and Beyond the Realm of Conscience, Jessica is not afraid of being compared: "I'm not afraid, I never thought about that topic, worry about myself first! I also didn't watch the those two series."

Playing as the evil empress, Myolie is currently working hard on practicing her vicious eye expressions. She said: "Sometimes I practice so much I feel like throwing up! (Ask Bosco Wong to help you practice?) I practice in front of the mirror. This series, sometimes can get really emotional, I am also afraid I'll go crazy too, so I often try to rest more. (Are you afraid that people will compare you and Tavia Yeung?) Comparison is good competition, that's how there is improvement."

Yesterday Kenix Kwok attended a children singing contest. She reveals that her 7 month year old daughter often loves to laugh, every time Kenix wakes up and sees her, she would be really happy. Kenix frankly said that she doesn't want to miss her daughter's stages of growth, so she does not know when she'll make her comeback. However, if she encounters a good script, she will consider filming a series again. She said her husband Frankie Lam is often flying every where for work, but once he has free time he'll spend it with their daughter. When will her daughter get a brother or sister? She said: "Will do some researches, wait another 2-3 years!"

Kenix expressed that the couple both started planning courses that her daughter might want to take. Asked if she'll accept jobs for her daughter? She said that her daughter is still too young, in the future when she starts going to school, her studies will always been the most important. However, if her daughter really likes it and the time is managed well, she won't oppose. Does she hope that her family of 3 can shoot an advertisement together? Kenix frankly said that she'll have to look at the style of the advertisement before deciding.

Liza Wang and Law Kar Ying appeared at Tuen Mun Town Plaza to promote for the new Cantonese opera (Tak Ling & Empress Dowager). It is Ah Jeh's birthday on the lunar calender, she said: "Law Kar Ying gave me an iPad already. My birthday wish is good health. "

Law Kar Ying wishes Ah Jeh "long live head and brain", he said: "The iPad was HK$7,000, I don't even have one! (What are you going to give for her actual birthday?) You all don't try to stir up troubles! Earlier when I was on the plane with Ah Jeh, we encountered a crazy fan who kept staring at us, but he didn't take any further action, so it felt like someone with a gun targeting you. That's why I went on Weibo to complain a little!"

Yesterday Kenneth Ma and Vincent Wong attended an event at East Point City. They both talked about their healthy lifestyles and went on stage to cook up simple dishes. They also planted environmental friendly plants with the kids at the event. Kenneth said that he doesn't know how to cook "I have 0 points in cooking!" Also, currently he's busy shooting for TVB new series Female Boxing and because he's a villain, he's often getting hit and getting bruises all over.

Vincent Wong expressed that before his cooking wasn't too bad, but now is getting worse and worse. Asked if girlfriend Yoyo Chen has tried his cooking? He said: "Yes! She praises me too, but actually she's better at cooking, making pasta and steak. I suggested that she open a restaurant!"

The night before, Koni Lui had her "center door wide opened" as she hosts for Mr. Hong Kong Contest 2010. Yesterday ATV's food program host (Mary Huang) madly poked on Weibo: "Koni Lui had her center door wide opened like a hemisphere to be the host, where has the Miss Hong Kong wisdom gone?" Former Miss Asia (Lai Suk Yin) agreed to the comment and Designer (Dorian Ho) implied that Koni had firm breasts.

On TVB's discussion forums, Netizens said that former Mr. Asia (ATV's show) William Chak "5 award winner" was decided by TVB internally. But there were also praises that he deserved the victory. During the celebration, William expressed that he has finally reached his goal of singing with TVB. Before the contest, hot favorite Angus Ip (#4) was a little disappointed and that he lost because he didn't have enough stage experience, but he is satisfied with the overall results. He also hopes to enter the industry and become an artist.

Raymond Lam attended a Metro Radio concert and towards the rumors of his arrogant attitude, always playing games during filming, late to work and several other 'violations'. He generously responded: "In the next few days, it will turn into 17 violations. This is not the first time I'm being accused by others, I will first reflect on the things I didn't do good enough. I will try my best to do the best." Is the tree too big, attracting too much winds? He calmly said: "No matter what I do, people will criticize. Like in the past people said I was cold because at the time I didn't talk much."

Towards the rumors that Raymond is arrogant during filming, Joey Yung supported her junior: "I met him when we were filming for the movie, he's really considerate towards others, has astonishing endurance. After completing his concert, he had to attend the movie premiere the next day, this is something I can't do, but I felt that he never looks back, a very professional artist. (Accused of always playing games during filming?) He memorized the script already, and even memorized my parts too." Joey said that Raymond is really friendly to his fans, there was one time a very excited fan girl rushed into the cafe looking for Raymond to get an autograph, Raymond really welcomed the fan. Joey said: "An artist that busy, being 5 minutes late, I find it reasonable."

Yesterday Joyce Tang attended a public event and is using her "pork chop" look in TVB series Beauty Knows No Pain to maintain her popularity as she teaches children how to make actual pork chop pasta. Joyce expressed that she knows that the finale to Beauty received pretty good ratings, she joked and said that next time she has interest in being a man: "Shave off all my hair, be bald and be a man, I don't mind. If the script is ok, I will film it."

The Mr. Hong Kong Contest 2010 is held tonight (8/21, 8:30PM HKT). Due to the numerous belittling men complaints, TVB decided to change the stage design that prevents the female judges from touching the male contestants. This year the female judges will have to watch from a distance and cannot reach out to have any body contact with the men. However, Christine Ng who has always had an 'outstanding' performance in the previous Mr. Hong Kong, wasn't affected by the new regulations because this year she's one of the MCs. She'll be on stage with the male contestants and will be able to have body contact with them.

Meanwhile, yesterday the contestants were doing the swimwear rehearsal. #10 William Chak's 40 inch chest and thick belly hair was the main focus, he frankly said that he does not mind letting the MC Christine Ng touch him.

William Chak was asked if he had confidence to win this year? He said: "Try my best! I support (#5) Pak Kin Yan, he's pretty good in talent, speech and body figure." Asked if he minds if Christine Ng touches him? He said: "Just to boost up the atmosphere, I don't mind. Actually they all really don't do anything to us." Pak Kin Yan expressed that he's nervous and getting praised by William, he praises back that William is popular, skillful and has an average body figure. "We both are performing dance, but I am already a performer, I'm already adapted to performing in front of a group of people. So there is an advantage there, I have confidence that I will win!"

(#3) Nicholas Ooi did not have the body figure or the thick body hair. He said: "Before coming on stage, I took some time off to train. Within a month, I went from a 34 inch chest to 35 inches, I'm quite satisfied." When asked compared to the other contestants, does he look like a kid? Nicholas said: "That's cute then! My mom also praises me, forget about the handsome guy path! I'll go down a different path. As for losing out on the body hair too, have to ask his father this question. No body hair, can't blame anyone. If have body hair and small body figure, then it'll look ugly, I can't accept that either."

Yesterday Niki Chow attended a magazine award ceremony and was named the Good Taste Award. She expressed that what she really wants to do is to move to Japan and away from the busy life. She smiled: "Only if you have money can you live an excellent life, but my mom said that a man may not necessary be with you forever, so the best is to work hard to earn my own money." She already bought a house for her parents, hopefully she'll be able to buy one for herself in the future: "The housing prices are so high now, so I convinced my mom to sell now."

Currently living with her parents, Niki hopes to live alone, asked if it's because it's not convenient to bring a boyfriend home when her parents are there? She laughed: "Yes! I am just saying that in the future if I meet a boyfriend, it's not convenient."

August 30th is both Niki Chow and Nicholas Tse's birthdays. The day before (the 19th), they both celebrated together. Cecilia Cheung's little brother (Cheung Pak Man) is the Director for his new bar, Niki attended the opening ceremony and was surprised to see Cecilia prepared a birthday cake for her at the event. Both Nicholas and Niki cut the cake together.

Nicholas and Cecilia both went to support her little brother and during the interview, Cecilia mentioned bringing Lucas to Toyko Disney Land earlier for his 3rd birthday, it felt tiring. When asked if she'll bring Quintus along with them next time to Japan? She said: "Definitely, but perhaps next time there will be another little brother or sister coming along too. The more children there are the more lively the atmosphere is, but for now I have to first focus on my jobs."

KUALA LUMPUR: Cantopop singer Gillian Chung is ready to love again, having moved on from a sex scandal that almost destroyed her career.

“Not every guy is bad,” she said. “I want a boyfriend who is ‘mature-minded’ and likes me for who I am. He shouldn’t try to change me.”

Chung, who was here on Friday for the launch of Jaz Beer’s latest creation, Jaz Fresh, also said she would pick more mature movie roles now.
Jaz-ed up: Chung at the Jaz Fresh launch in Kuala Lumpur yesterday

“I used to play the part of a teeny bopper’s. Now I look for something more challenging. I would like to play ‘crazy’ characters in mou lei tao (slapstick) comedies,” she said.

“I’ve grown up, so it’s only natural to want to try different things,” the 29-year-old Hong Kong artiste told The Star.

Her fans are standing by her, too.

About 40 of them from her fan club braved the rain outside a restaurant at a shopping mall here for about two hours just to catch a glimpse of her.

The fresh-faced beauty made their wait worthwhile when she treated them to a rendition of Long Fa Siong Tek Yan (Riding on a Wave) – the latest single on her new EP (demo) album which is set for an October release.

She is all geared up for a Sept 28 concert with Charlene Choi, the other half of popular group Twins.

Chung was a poster child of girly innocence until the 2008 scandal where obscene pictures of her with celebrity Edison Chen appeared online.

She kept a low profile but eventually emerged to make a public apology to her fans, saying she was sorry for hurting those around her, especially Choi.

Since then, Chung has re-invented herself to portray a more grown-up woman and become the spokesperson of Jaz Beer (a Malaysian brand).

HONG KONG: Hong Kong singer-actor Edison Chen's personal assistant revealed Tuesday that the star had recently flown to the United States to meet Lady Gaga to discuss collaborative opportunities for next year, reported Chinese media.

"Lady Gaga will embark on a series of activities in Asia next year. She knows that Edison is building up his fashion label in Asia and owns an entertainment company. She hopes to work with him," said his assistant, known only as Mr Tay.

Tay went on to dispel rumours that Chen's meeting with the flamboyant singer was to seek her help in creating his new album.

Chen's assistant said that Lady Gaga was probably too busy with her own concerts at the moment to assist Chen with his album that is due to be released in November.

According to Tay, Chen had known Lady Gaga for many years and described her as a "hardworking, smart and opinionated artiste".

He added that both Chen and Lady Gaga have long been admirers of each other's sense of style.

Lending credence to Tay's words was two of Chen's latest blog posts.

On Saturday, he posted on his blog a photo of himself sitting cheek-to-cheek with Lady Gaga at a publicity event in Taiwan.

In another blog entry on Tuesday, Chen also thanked Lady Gaga and her management company Atomic Factory for awarding him special status when he attended her concert recently.

The Chinese-Canadian star's 2008 sex photo scandal rocked the Asian entertainment industry and left both his career and reputation in shambles, forcing him to spend most of his time in the US since the incident.

Recently, Chen had been actively engineering his comeback, doing his best to promote his fashion label Clot and even managing to get big names like Jay Chou and M.C. Hotdog to write songs for his new album.

If Chen does manage to rope in the ultra-popular Lady Gaga, he will be one step closer to success in his bid to revive his showbiz career.

Lawrence Ng, Amy Chan and Pinky Cheung's ATV series The Men of Justice ratings haven't been too bad. However, it was recently discovered that the series broadcast was "stolen" by a Mainland website.

ATV Executive (Yip Ka Bo) expressed that the series did not release in Mainland nor was there any DVD release, so based on investigations it is someone within the company that stole it. The series producer Gary Tang said: "The ratings more or less will be affected. Most of the audience for The Men of Justice are young people, and they are the more active ones online. They probably would want to watch it online because it's faster, it's hard to avoid this, but the one broadcast on the internet is the cut, but hasn't been edited version." Actress Pinky Cheung is also worried this may affect the ratings, she said: "My fans are discussing this issue on the internet, they said there is DVD too. I don't know who is responsible for this, but can just treat it as promotion!"

The day before Wong Cho Lam arrived in Malaysia for promotions. Although it is a short two day, one night trip, Cho Lam still got invited to be a guest for the local radio station there. He went on the show and chatted with the audience. As many fans know Cho Lam has a girlfriend, so they are very interested in Cho Lam's love life, often asking him about it. Cho Lam generously shared with fans his dating experiences. During the time, Cho Lam received shrimp noodles from the female staff at the radio station.

Just completed his talk show and a musical, Cho Lam will take a half month off, asked how he'll spend it? He said: "Shake a little, sleep a little! For a long period now, I have not gotten enough sleep, so now I will take this opportunity to really rest up!"

The day before was Jessica Hsuan's 40th birthday. Though she had to spend her birthday at work, but she received 1,000 roses for her birthday. Macy Chan who was also at the set was jealous and envied Jessica. She took a photo and posted it on Weibo, sharing the happiness with Jessica. Macy wrote: "This is the first time in my life that I can see a set of 1,000 roses with my very own eyes, it feels shocking. Too bad the roses aren't for me, but it is extremely touching still." Jessica still has not responded to Macy's tweet yet.