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Shirley Yeung and Sharon Chan attended a Christmas event together. Wearing a silver flashy dress, Shirley performed a song, she said: "Because I rarely sing at events, so I was so nervous I was even stuttering in my dreams. (What did your boyfriend Gregory Lee give you as a Christmas gift?) Haven't got one yet, he's also busy with work!" When speaking of marriage, Shirley said in a spoiled voice that works comes first. Sharon Chan also returned to work after several months of having lymph node inflammation. She expressed that haven't been done a singing performance in public for so long, she felt nervous. Last night, she was in a mentally good state and said that after being ill, she has learned to cherish life.

In order to avoid the embarrassment of getting zero TV ratings again, ATV has opted out of 'buying misery' and gave up on paying a fee to get TV rating reports starting January 1, 2011. The TV rating reports were initially the responsibility of TVB, ATV and a group of advertisement companies. The TV rating reports not only provides feedback on series and other TV productions, but also serves as a voting source for advertisers to who they will sell their Ads to. As TVB dominates the majority of the TV rating report fees, ATV is responsible for HK$3 million annually.

ATV CEO (Yip Ka Bo) admitted to the news, he explained: "Nowadays, majority of the people use LED, Plasma and other new style TVs which does not connect with a receiver to get the TV ratings. The TV ratings are not complete anymore, so we aren't doing it anymore! We will be using another media research method that will be even more complete." As Producer Gary Tang will be starting two ATV series next year, he was rather disappointed in this news: "I have heard too, I can only do well on the public praises for the series. ATV ratings are following a different method anyway."

Also, as ATV is giving up on the TV rating reports, the media research fees will be left in the responsibility of TVB. It was said that TVB was not satisfied with this issue, however a response from TVB was not obtained before the deadline.

Earlier Joyce Cheng exposed that her late mother Lydia Shum had tried doing drugs before, but yesterday afternoon when she was at a Citywalk event, she clarified there was a verbal misunderstanding. She stressed that her mother does not have a habit of doing drugs. Reporters pursued and asked her about her mother doing drugs. Joyce said: "I'm fortunate that you all are asking me the question again. I wanted to say that it is really shocking, the reports said I exposed my mom does drugs. I really want to clarify that she does not have a habit of doing drugs, absolutely no such thing, it is a verbal misunderstanding. I was very unhappy about this issue. (Then what was your initial meaning?) I don't want to say too much otherwise the situation will get even worse, more and more misunderstandings. In the future, I will practice my Chinese, don't want to have any more misunderstandings. If I had hurt anyone, I am really sorry, I didn't want to hurt my mom even more."

Joyce was asked if her father Adam Cheng had any reaction, she said that she talked to him on the phone earlier, but didn't really talk about the issue. She only asked about Adam's condition after his injury. Joyce said: "He also asked me about the progress of my new music album and he will come support me when he has time off." How did she spend her Christmas? Joyce laughed and said she celebrated with more than 10 other friends with turkey. She also received a gift of a calender with brand name shoes on each page. Asked if her boyfriend gave her anything? She said: "Before I got a handbag, I personally wasn't willing to buy it, cost about 5 figures."

Last night, Kate Tsui appeared at a countdown event in Tsuen Wan in a Deep V sexy dress! On stage, she sang her old song Hit Me and the organizers requested her to sing karaoke songs: "Never thought I'll be singing a year and half old song this year. Hope next year there will be a record company that I can sign with, I will work hard in practicing my singing now."

Kate exposed that someone opened a Weibo account under her name, and after some of her friends from the industry chatted with the impostor, they discovered that the person was a fake. She clarified that fears of addiction, so for now she does not have intentions to open a Weibo. She hopes everyone will not follow the fake Weibos anymore.

Reporters discovered that this "fake Kate Tsui" started the Weibo on January 18th, and up until now there was no "V" sign to verify the account. The fake Kate Weibo had a black and white close up profile picture of Kate and there are approximately 2,000 fans with 18 followers, some of which are friends from the industry. The Weibo only started getting 'active' this year often uploading Kate's photos from the events she attended and leaving messages. The afternoon before yesterday the impostor left a message wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and uploaded a photo of Kate in a Santa Claus's hat.

Kate's friends from the industry who fell for the "trap" and followed the impostor includes Shirley Yeung, Nancy Wu and Macy Chan. When they learned of the fake Weibo, they were surprised and said they won't talk about topics that are too deep or private on Weibo. When Nancy knew the person was an impostor, she expressed that impersonating Weibos are common. Macy expressed that someone impersonated her on Facebook before.

Also at the event, Kary Ng expressed that having friends to spend Christmas with is not lonely. she reveals that for her concert on January 2011, she already found a personal trainer to keep herself fit and hopes to train to a beautiful figure.

Yesterday Aimee Chan attended a shopping mall event and was very welcomed by the children there. One of the boys wouldn't let go of her hand, making a very funny scene. When speaking of Christmas, Aimee said that she spent it at work, but on Christmas Eve she took some time out to spend with her father who made a special trip back to HK from Canada to celebrate with her.

Although she spent Christmas at work, Aimee expressed that it was very enjoyable: "We exchange gifts at the recording studio. I hope to continue to have jobs in the new year, that's what called good luck." Also, it was said that after Moses Chan and Bernice Liu broke up, Moses was 'targeted closely' by all the female artists on TVB. Aimee reveals that she and Moses play brother and sister in the new series The War at Heart, she joked and said that they developed a sibling relationship. She generously praised him: "He's a very good person, and a gentleman. He also gives me advice too. (Lots of girls are after him?) Often lots of girls are after good men. (Is he the type you like?) Never thought about that, he's my older brother in the series, I don't want cause a confusion in the relationships. In reality I'm just focusing on my work."

Maxim's Group is celebrating their 38th anniversary, and donated HK$150,000 to the "Kelly Chen Children Education Fund". Yesterday Kelly attended the event and accepted the charity money, she said: "Maxim's have always been very concerned with my fund." Is the funding adequate? She admitted that because she guest starred in the film The Monkey King (大鬧天宮) where she was paid HK$1 million a day, the money was pushed into the fund. Based on estimation, does she feel she got a bigger pay check than Cecilia Cheung? She felt that it's not and does not know what the current market price is. Asked if she stood firmly a day to earn that million dollar pay check? She said: "Not calculated like that, normally it's calculated per film, perhaps the filmmakers knew that she was doing this for charity, so increased my pay check to HK$1 million per day. I was shooting daily, doesn't matter if I'm just an extra."

As the Big 4 labels has hope to settle the royalty issues with TVB? Kelly said that she has been waiting for this day: "The more I wait the more impatient I am. I thought it would be settled within 2 months, but then it ended up taking more than a year to settle." In the future, singers could possibly appear on other TV stations? She felt that it's pretty good. Can she go on ATV or iCable programs? She said: "TVB and I don't have a contract, I can go on other TV stations." She agreed that there will only be improvement with more competition.

EEG and East Asia bailed out of RTHK's awards, Kelly was surprised and asked why? She said: "Then there won't be anyone there, then it's empty, completely empty! Perhaps the TV ratings will be even higher, very interesting." Will she definitely attend the award ceremony? She admitted, but no schedule because each station had always played on the own. It's a down time in the music scene, should not have so many disputes and should be more united instead.

Yesterday afternoon, Selena Li was dressed in a sexy strapped dress to attend the "BLING Snow Dream Christmas --- Dream Flashing Magic Show" event. She served as the assistant to magician Louis Yan. Selena said that there have been lots of guys who performed magic for her, she also does not really like guys doing that because then he will not treat her well.

Yesterday night was Christmas Eve, she invited a group of male and female friends to celebrated. Is she taking the opportunity to meet a guy? She smiled and said that she won't do it purposely, but she is very willing to meet new friends. She hopes to find a boyfriend in the upcoming new year. Also, her make-up school will have even more developments and become perfect. She reveals that she personally demonstrated a make-up from plain eyes to first meeting eyes. The clip was placed online and had great feedback. Selena said that at first she was worried the eye make-up, fortunately it got good praises and gave her even more confidence.