Virginia Lok strongly urges him to stay
34 year old Raymond Lam, one of the "Golden egg" artistes, has always been labeled as one of the three "gold-earners", along with Kevin Cheng and Moses Chan. According to the newspaper's sources, Raymond Lam's contract with TVB will be ending in a few days, and has rejected renewing his contract, choosing to become "free". Although Virginia Lok strongly urged him to continue staying, but this time, Raymond has already made plans for his future, and only agreed that if he films HK dramas again, he will consider TVB as priority. But, Miss Lok has not given up, and is still trying her best to persuade him to sign a per-series contract, or sign to the TVBC (TVB in Mainland) management department like Charmaine Sheh did, still hoping to keep Raymond Lam.
Coincidentally absent from shows due to injury
Leaving TVB has been something Raymond has decided early on. Earlier, TVB held two major functions, but Raymond was unable to attend due to injury. First was last month's Shanghai TV Festival - he was originally supposed to attend to promote his drama "Line Walker", but because he had injured his hip, he could not attend last minute. Last week's TVB's Amazing Summer promotion, he also missed the event with the reason of an intestinal spasm. Coincidentally, he had to rest due to discomfort here and there, but yet he was still active in finishing his commercial functions on hand. Recently, he was very busy going to Mainland China to attend commercial functions and performances and even went to Quanzhou to hold a concert. On the weekend, he will also be returning to Quanzhou to attend a Chinese Valentine's Day event for a brand, and on August 2nd, he will be holding a concert in Foshan.
300,000 RMB per episode of a Mainland drama
Although Raymond Lam had previously expressed plans to leave the entertainment industry, because he will eventually have to take over his father's business, but his passion for his entertainment career hasn't reduced. He also understands the strength of his popularity in Mainland China, he is also considered to be in popular demand - he can be worth 300,000 RMB per episode in the Mainland; therefore he does not want to miss out on his "golden time". Being "free" from management, he can focus on filming Mainland dramas and movies; therefore in recent years, he has been planning to establish his own record label and production company, pushing his career up a level and he can also help his girlfriend, Karena Ng, in her entertainment career.
May attend promotions for "Line Walker"
At the same time, there has been rumours that another reason for Raymond Lam's departure is because his performance as Happy Sir in "Highs and Lows" helped him get rid of his "idol" image and was largely praised. Plus, that year, because the TV King and Queen were to be publicly voted, so his chance of taking the TV King award was quite high. However, in the end, Wayne Lai ended up getting the award, causing Raymond to be disappointed. On the other hand, Raymond Lam had already grasped TV King awards from Mainland China and overseas early on; therefore disappointing that he could not get the TV King award in his "home" in his 15 years. However, there may be a chance that he will attend promotions for one of TVB's major productions, "Line Walker", returning a favour to his "home" and keeping a good relationship with them.
Yesterday, a reporter called Virginia Lok; however she has not replied yet. As for Raymond's manager, Candy, she expressed that she cannot answer for him about his future direction as it is a personal matter.
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