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Universal Music and the other Big 4 record labels still have not resolved the royalty issues with TVB yet. Universal Music artist Eason Chan's contract with TVB already ended, which also begins Universal and ATV's series of planned collaborations. ATV hopes Eason will get more audience to watch their channel. ATV's executive (Sing Ban Yu) revealed to the media that Universal is currently discussing different collaboration plans with ATV and have already reached an agreement. The 5 new MVs to Eason's latest album will be broadcast by ATV.

Both sides are also planning on holding a concert for Eason, the performance space will be located on ATV's largest recording studio. Approximately a 1000 audience can be situated in it. The concert may not be held in the form of ticket selling, the preliminary idea is the possibility of inviting ATV audience into the studio.

Andy Hui and ex-lover Sammi Cheng's love sparks is reborn. A few days ago, the two went out to eat in Jordan. Two hours later, the two left the location chatting and laughing nonstop, the couple appeared very sweet together. After a pleasant night, the next day when Sammi went back to work she got back all her energy from the love, and wrote on Weibo: "A good feeling."

That afternoon, when Sammi accompanied Andy out for afternoon tea, [Apple Daily] reporters spotted them and asked Sammi if she got back together with Andy? She was in an extremely good mood and smiled the whole time, but she did not respond.

Regarding if Sammi and Andy got back together? Sammi's manager expressed: "In fact, I didn't know they had a meal together. In the standpoint of her record label, we do not have anything to say." Both Andy and Sammi said they won't respond through their record labels.

Already have a son, Roger Kwok will become a father again in July. His wife Cindy Au is currently carrying a girl and the couple is ready to build the word "good" (Good = 好, the character is made up with the characters boy and girl). The day before, Roger and his 5 and half month pregnant wife went to pick up their 3 year old son (Brad Kwok) from school. Roger's mother-in-law also accompanied them.

When the couple went to pick up Brad, once he saw his father, he immediately became excited. Brad had an 'Ah Wong' bowl cut and a yellow outfit on, and was carried by his father Roger as they crossed the street. During the time, Brad was swinging his arms and legs, which made his parents laugh at his jumpy mood.

Roger later accepted a phone interview and when mentioned how his son had an Ah Wong cut along with an active spirit, he chuckled: "He usually doesn't allow haircuts, I gave him the haircut while he was sleeping. I'm very pleased with it. He's also very active, like an athlete." He expressed that because his wife is pregnant and he had a break, so he has been responsible for picking up his son from school lately. He said: "My wife is expected to due early July, next month I'm going to Mainland to shoot a series and will be back in June to accompany my wife until September, where I'll be back in TVB for a new series. I taught my son to talk to his unborn sister, I told him to say to his mom's stomach: 'little sister, I welcome you.' It's a cute scene."

It turns out that Cindy had it very difficult during her first trimester, she often had fever and vomited. Fortunately her condition is stabled now, Roger said: "Her appetite has changed, she likes to eat spicy foods, which can stop vomits. I eat with her, and urge her not to eat too much."

Asked Roger if he had thought of a name for his daughter? He said: "I have 3-4 names in mind. See how she looks when she's born first, then I'll think of which name has the right feel." Are two kids enough? He laughed: "Enough, I have already reached another stage in life. Cindy will have to 'retire' from this. In fact we already got it all planned, we will care for our children until they're 20, then we can really enjoy retirement life."

Charmaine Sheh has intentions to leave TVB, the 'successors' is believed to be a hot topic. There are currently 5 FaDans that have a great chance to get up top.

#1: Fala Chen
Age: 29
Breakthrough role: The Stew of Life, she appeared in a bra on TV leading to heated discussions among Netizens.

Chances of Rising: Charmaine once mentioned that Fala is highly flexible. Earlier her performance in No Regrets as pitiful Ching Ching won praises.

#2: Kate Tsui
Age: 31
Breakthrough role: Her role as a police officer in the film Eye In The Sky got good responses. This also won her the "Best New Performer" at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

Chances of Rising: Kate can act, sing and dance. Besides series and music, her potential catches the attention of many film directors. Just like last year she took part in 14 Blades.

#3: Tavia Yeung
Age: 31
Breakthrough role: Her big villian role as Yiu Kam Ling in Beyond the Realm of Conscience confirmed her first line TVB Fadan position.

Chances of Rising: Tavia joined TVB's training class in 1999, after 10+ years of endurance, she depended on the one role 'Yiu Kam King' to challenge Charmaine and won the "My Favorite TV Female Character" award.

#4: Linda Chung
Age: 26
Breakthrough role: She had an 'exposive' role in Heart of Greed as Seung Joi Sum. Audience also agreed that she is an on-screen couple with Raymond Lam.

Chances of Rising: She is the youngest of the 5 Fadans, and has good audience fate. However, Linda's voice is too delicate, so she's often in those innocent girl roles. Her hidden potential has not had the chance to develop.

#5: Myolie Wu
Age: 31
Breakthrough role: In War of In-Laws, Myolie played the barbaric daughter-in-law striking at mother-in-law Liza Wang and got praises.

Chances of Rising: Although she's teased as the "Wu Gwing Yee" (Sad/Depressed look), over the past several years she's willing to sacrifice and fight. In 2006, she madly gained weight for her fat girl role in To Grow With Love. Her professional spirit is well worth the praise.

Artists respond to Charmaine's departure from TVB

Myolie Wu said Charmaine has the fame and benefits, heading out to Mainland is to seek breakthrough: "After all, there are a lot more artists and directors to collaborate with, perhaps she's looking at that too! Even if she doesn't sign with TVB, she can still shoot TVB series. (She's gone, you have more leading roles and series?) That fast? There are still a lot of people in TVB, what's most important is everyone gets an opportunity."

Currently a rising star, Natalie Tong expressed she really wanted to collaborate with Charmaine, she had always been her target. Natalie was asked if she'll have more chances to rise up to the top now that Charmaine is leaving? She said: "Everyone has a different direction, she's not leaving, even if she signs a per series contract, she can still shoot series for TVB."

Bernice Liu is also another one rumored to be leaving, but she expressed she's not sure of Charmaine's contract. She said Charmaine a very talented artist, as long as she's happy with her decision, that's all that matters.

Yoyo Mung said that leaving TVB just means she's changing the contract form. Yoyo strongly supported Charmaine's decision: "It's not a complete break off, just as people get older, starts wanting a new environment."

As a Scorpio, Myolie is very much like one having self-confidence, determined, prudent and a clear goal. In her career, TVB Dong Ka FaDan Charmaine Sheh is leaving, the other FaDans now have a chance to fight for the big sister position, Myolie has already entered the battle. She said that the TV Queen title is one of her goals. As for her love life, she is surrounded by rumors on her developed relationship with Bosco Wong, who is a year younger than her.

Sonjia Kwok exposed that she's dating and shared the good news with everyone. On the contrary, Myolie avoids talking about her love life, she said: "I don't want to just talk about relationships, well...I'll go back and think about it." Regarding Bosco, Myolie just gave short answers on what she's asked. In fact everyone accepts them, otherwise TVB wouldn't have made arrangements for them to collaborate as a couple team so many times. Myolie said timidly: "I guess." Myolie and Bosco sparked in 2005 after their collaboration in War of In-Laws, in a blink of an eye it has already been 6 years, she admitted that there was once a pretty good pursuer that appeared in her life, but in the end it was "better to be friends". Why didn't she give other people a chance? She laughed: "I will envy a little, girls are not afraid of having many pursuers, but perhaps of my horoscope, I'm not that type that locks up, I don't want people to misunderstand." But in reality, her 'lock' is on Bosco.

Changes mind, accepts 'sister-brother love'

Since Myolie and the one year younger than her Bosco were surrounded by rumors, she broke through the fate of TVB's heavily rumored FaDans, she laughed: "You all wanted to write just about him that's all." Back then, when the rumors were going around, Myolie publicly said several times: "I will not accept guys younger than me." How about now? She said: "Well of course it's better to choose someone older. It's enough if he's just older than me mentally (his personality)." Things have changed, Myolie is now able to relax her restrictions, she laughed: "Yes, as long as I keep it well myself." Is Bosco's personality mature? Myolie laughed brightly: "Not really, he's basically like a little kid." Are they dating, but refusing to make it public? She couldn't help it anymore and shouted: "I don't know how to answer you..Ah!"

Although women have many strengths, the majority of them would announce their 'final destinations' by age 30. The 31 year old Myolie also has her own views: "Have to see if that partner, really is the happiness. I am rather pessimistic, unless I'm really sure it's that person. If not, then it's better to leave the most beautiful memories instead." Myolie grew up in a single parent home, her parents' divorce indeed had an impact on her. Will she ever get marry? She thought for a moment: "If I find the right person, I will. But it's not easy to find one."

Regarding her future direction, Myolie didn't think about it: "Every stage in life have different needs. I see many girls, like Jessica Hsuan, she's 40 years old and still very happy and young. Thinking for a moment, can I really work 10 more years? Before I thought, am I going to be married by age 35? But a few years later, will that marriage be too early? I would feel like it's a waste." She seems to be feeling 15/16.

How about having children? Myolie said: "I see my sister so happy because she already has 3 babies. It's one thing to be happy, but there are also a lot of sacrifices. You have to give your entire self to the child, I think I'm not ready for that yet. I have to find a reliable person and take this step with him together, that would be better. I have this thought, but if my other half doesn't, then it's going to be difficult."

Her roles are starting to have development, like in TVB's new unreleased series Ghetto Justice, where she plays an attorney and Queen of All as a scheming queen. She's no longer 'Wu Gwing Gwing'. Regarding making the Chinese yuan, Myolie felt it doesn't matter: "As long as I'm happy, just having jobs is enough. If there are jobs, then it proves I have a market. Also, I'm a killer (hardworking), constantly shooting series." As to Netizens once said she looks like a "Sad Rock" ('Gwing'), and taking her crying face to joke around with. She said: "There are a lot of different fans online, some supports you, some don't. They can do anything they want, I will listen to Netizens' comments. If there are negative comments, then I will look to see if it's reasonable and then I will see how I can change."

Not giving up on singing

In 2005, Myolie gained 42 pounds to play the role as Fei Tin (To Grow With Love), but in the end the TV Queen award went to Charmaine Sheh for her role in Maiden Vow. However, now that Charmaine is leaving, Myolie directly admitted that she wants the TV Queen title: "TV Queen is of course one of my goals, but it needs to be the right time. If it comes, it comes, if I doesn't, then it's fine too. I am not going to fight for it, the most important is to work hard on my jobs. That year when I did Fei Tin, people pitied me a lot because it was a big sacrifice and I didn't get anything back. In fact, I wasn't unhappy because I already tried my best on completing my duties. Right now I won't think too much, like singing, I just like to do it. How many 20-30 years old do we have in life? It can't be that I start singing at age 40 right? Every person wants the best, to be the top, going up to Joey Yung's status as the big sister in the music industry. But, how many can be the big sister? Only one. TV can only have one too. I have thought about focusing on singing and giving up on TV, or just focus on TV and give up on singing. However, I can do things that I like doing, so I kept both."

The first of 3 shows Ekin Cheng Beautiful Day 2011 Concert was held in Hong Kong Coliseum last night. Ekin changed into 5 different outfits throughout the night.

Ekin performed very openly at the concert, he did a hot dance with Chinese-Brazilian blood model Kate and sang ex-girlfriend Gigi Leung's Today right in front of his girlfriend Yoyo Mung and his parents. Ekin also performed Joey Yung's My Pride, but after he performed the songs, he quickly added an annotation. He ran over to the piano and said to the music producer Chan Kwong Wing: "These two songs are chosen by Chan Kwong Wing, he produced many songs for different singers. It's a collective memory, bringing everyone back to the high school days."

Ekin invited Pakho Chau, Fiona Fung and Kay Tse as his guest performers last night. When Pakho came out, a few things malfunctioned on him, first his guitar string snapped off and then the microphone didn't produce any sound.

Last night, Charmaine Sheh wore a tube dress with diamonds valued at HK$10 million to attend the Jewels of Italy Show 2011 as a guest. She arrived at the scene 5 minutes before the show started. Charmaine expressed that yesterday was the first day of recovery since her injury. Asked how her condition is now? She said: "I'm all better, but still have to do physical therapy. It's easy though, not hard to do, but I temporarily cannot do action scenes. (Lost a lot of opportunities to earn money during the time of your injury?) Everyone, don't put salt on my injury, I lost stage performance opportunities and a series (FH3) that is clearly going to do well. (Did you lose 7 figures?) Around there."

However, what everyone is most concerned about is if Charmaine is leaving TVB to Mainland for 10 million? Charmaine declined to comment, she said: "First off, I am very grateful to have everyone's concern on what path I'm going on and my contract. TVB is my 'maternal home', a place where I grew up in and our relationship will remain positive. No matter where I go, I will still treat TVB as my home" Charmaine was asked exactly when her contract will expire? She did not reveal when, and just said this year. She admitted that when her contract expires this year, she is considering changing it to a 'per series' contract. Based on her comment, she no longer wishes to be a TVB biological daughter anymore.

Asked if she's offered 10 million to shoot Mainland series? Charmaine avoided discussing about money: "It's not about the money. (It was rumored that TVB will broadcast new series Flower Sister Flower World to push you up for TV Queen and convince you to stay?) I do not control when the series release." She also expressed that she will definitely do the promotions for the series when it airs. After she answered the questions, she appeared disheartened and quickly entered the venue for the show. Later, when Charmaine was leaving, reporters asked about the rumors that she faked her injury and is currently dating a Mainland wealthy man? She said promptly: "I don't need to respond to this story!"