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Look Beyond The Bikini

Posted by admin on 14th May 2008



SINGAPORE : Talk about being sporting.

High-jumping into the spirit of the Olympics, MediaCorp TV Channel 8 will roll out a new sports-themed drama, Beach.Ball.Babes, on July 7, just before the Beijing Games kick off on August 8.

The 20-episode drama about volleyball boasts a “royal” cast that includes former beauty queens Joanne Peh and Jade Seah, two of MediaCorp’s “princesses” Jesseca Liu and Dawn Yeoh, as well as Fann Wong’s groom-to-be, Christopher Lee.

Another volleyball show, you ask?

Well, it has been years since Chen Liping was seen in The Winning Team. Besides, this latest take serves up a lot more eye candy as a lot of the action takes place at the beach which means beach babes Joanne, Jade and Jesseca will be steaming up your TV screens in their bikinis.

But sports has always had a firm place in local Chinese dramas, from 1980’s Flying Fish which starred one-time TV poster boy Wang Yuqing to the more recent The Champions (2004), featuring hot young stars like Fiona Xie and Felicia Chin.

“We try to do one or two sports dramas every year,” Kok Len Shoong, MediaCorp’s Senior Vice-President for Chinese Drama Productions, told Today. “This year, it’s especially significant because of the Olympics.”

So, why volleyball, or beach volleyball, to be precise?

“Beach volleyball is a new item at the Olympics. We think it’ll be of great interest to our viewers,” Kok explained.

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This Is For My Ex-Wife

Posted by admin on 11th December 2006

SINGAPORE: Huang Yiliang did it again – made another controversial speech involving former wife Lin Meijiao.

At Sunday night’s Star Awards, which were held at the St James Power Station for the first time, Yiliang won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in the drama Women of Times.

When he went on stage to accept the award, he said he wanted to give the award to Meijiao. In the same speech, he also thanked his current wife. It was a speech that raised eyebrows, not least due to the little-known fact that he has remarried.

In 2003, when he won the same award, Yiliang mentioned Meijiao in his thank-you speech, comparing her to a giraffe and saying her neck had grown from yearning for an award.

Meijiao was not present at Sunday night’s show.

Backstage, Yiliang lost his cool when quizzed him about the speech.

“Meijiao is more talented than me but she doesn’t have my luck,” he said. “I’ve always wanted her to win something so I’d like to give this award to her.”

He claimed he was simply voicing the wish of his daughter with Meijiao. He has been married for three years to Lily Liu.

“When I made that speech in 2003, I only had good intentions. I regret that it’s a joke that fell flat, I shouldn’t have made it.”

Visibly annoyed, he added: “Do you know how influential the media is? If you write bad stuff about me, that’s the end of me. Please spare me. I don’t have any bad intentions.”

Meanwhile, the Best Actor and Actress Awards were won by Li Nanxing and Ivy Lee, respectively, while Hong Huifang nabbed the Best Supporting Actress Award. Bryan Wong won Best Variety Show Host, while Kelvin Tan won Most Popular Newcomer.

The top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes were: Christopher Lee, Gurmit Singh, Tay Ping Hui, Vincent Ng, Edmund Chen, Qi Yuwu, Mark Lee, Kelvin Tan, Elvin Ng and Bryan Wong.

As for the women, the top 10 were Kym Ng, Huang Biren, Xiang Yun, Rui En, Michelle Chia, Jeanette Aw, Felicia Chin, Fiona Xie, Quan Yifeng and Jesseca Liu. – TODAY

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Singapore’s Felicia Chin To Shed Goody-Two-Shoes Image

Posted by admin on 15th May 2006

Three years into her acting career, Felicia Chin has landed her first leading role. And it’s about time, as David Gan would probably agree.

The celebrity hairstylist and confidante to A-list stars like Zhang Ziyi, Zoe Tay and Fann Wong is reportedly betting that the vivacious starlet will become Singapore show business’s Next Big Thing.

Felicia stars in The Beginning, a joint production between MediaCorp Studios and Malaysia-based broadcaster ntv7’s parent company Media Prima.

The 30-episode melodrama about romance, revenge and the road to riches marks the first of many Chinese-language dramas and variety shows that will be made under a three-year collaboration deal.

Filming for The Beginning – which co-stars Shaun Chen (Holland V, Love Concierge, Heartlanders) and up-and-coming Malaysian singer Lim Yee Chung – started three weeks ago in Malaysia.

The drama is slated to debut on ntv7 in October. Although there are as yet no plans to air it in Singapore, Felicia cheerfully waved off any concerns.

“There’s a big pool of actresses in Singapore and to be chosen for this role is an honour in itself. I really relish this chance and will put 101 per cent into it,” she told TODAY after a press conference in Kuala Lumpur last Thursday.

Andrew Cheng, senior controller of production resource and artiste management, MediaCorp Studios, said the demanding role of a compassionate-girl-turned-vengeance-seeker in The Beginning would stretch Felicia’s acting skills.

“Over the years, she’s been progressing well and has reached the stage where you find she has the spark,” said Cheng. “She has done many girl-next-door roles, so now let’s give her a very difficult role. Let her leap-frog to a different acting level.”

Cheng also hopes that the collaboration will push new frontiers for both broadcasters: “Malaysia has never done such a large-scale Chinese production. We have a three-year collaboration deal.

“If it works well, we’ll be here to stay. It’s part of our strategy to expand into overseas markets, instead of just exporting programmes like we did in the past.”

Flashing her signature sunny smile, Felicia said she was delighted to find acceptance from Malaysian viewers.

“When I walked along the streets, the locals would recognise me and go: ‘Eh, you are Mei Ren Yu!’” she said, referring to her character in the long-running drama Portrait of Home, which has been well-received across the Causeway.

And to think she could have missed out on the plumb role in The Beginning due to illness.

“The day that I was supposed to leave to film in Malaysia, I found a pimply thing on my face, and more on my body,” she said with mock fright.

“When my Mum confirmed it was chicken pox, I thought: ‘Oh no, this is the last thing I’d want now’.”

As a result, she began filming two weeks later than the other cast members.

“All my life, I always imagined I’d have chicken pox during my school examinations,” she said with a laugh.

“But I was thinking, on the bright side, it’ll give me more time to prepare for my role. And it’s better to have it at home than in Malaysia. I could have infected everybody on the set.” –

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Rising Local Star Felicia Chin, Not A Girl, Not Quite A Woman

Posted by admin on 21st June 2005

SINGAPORE : “Provocatively?” asked MediaCorp starlet Felicia Chin hesitantly, as our photographer prepared to shoot. For a fleeting moment, she looked unsure of what was expected of her.

But the moment the camera was trained on her, the 21-year-old looked at ease, posing with her hands on her hips, staring right into the camera lens.

We’re not sure why she was so hesitant initially – “sexy” shoots should be par for the course for Felicia Chin, who has graced the covers of magazines including Her World and the Singapore edition of FHM.

But look beyond the sensual shots and you realise that, for all her poise in front of the camera, Felicia’s just a baby in celebrity terms: Finding her feet, learning to fly.

And, not too long ago, in secondary school, she was a self-confessed tomboy.

Felicia can currently be seen as the wide-eyed fishball seller in MediaCorp’s Channel 8 100-episode drama Portrait Of Home, her third role since winning 2003’s Star Search. The actress is now taking a break before filming for the drama serial resumes in July.

Felicia stars as the love interest of Pierre Png and Alan Tern.

‘I’ve got a sweet and sexy side’

“I like how my character slowly grows stronger and learns how to handle relationship problems; she’s not as innocent as when she first started,” she said. “I identify with some of her character traits, many of which I can see in myself.”

While she was one of the four women, clad only in bikinis, to run down Orchard Road for that famous scene from The Champion, the talk about town focused on co-star Fiona Xie. But since then, she’s been showing a sexier side of herself, having posed in swimwear shoots for FHM and Her World.

Will she abandon her girl-next-door image for this saucier, more sensual one?

“Every woman has a sweet and a sexy side. I want to show both sides of myself and not just restrict myself to a certain image,” she said.

However, Felicia said she separates her work from her personal life – the sexy poses are “for work”, she insisted – and admitted that she’s still grappling with adopting different images. “It’s too early for a ‘fixed’ one,” she said.

At the interview, the actress was effervescent, almost bubbling over with enthusiasm. She talked nineteen to the dozen, a reporter’s delight: Feed her a simple question and she gleefully runs with the thread.

“I started acting when I was only 19, right after I’d returned from travelling with my friends. Star Search was merely by chance and I thought, why not?,” she said. “In these one-and-a-half years I’ve learned quite a lot – things I’d never have learned if I’d enrolled in university instead.

“It’s so much different from just watching the drama serial at home. There’s the positioning, lines to remember – things that even veteran actors have to keep in mind.”

Inspired choice

Felicia attended an inspirational seminar by Anthony Robbins a few years back, and it was instrumental in her career choice.

“It helped to broaden my perspectives on life and see the bigger picture. Suddenly all the problems that I face seem smaller when compared to those of other people,” she said.

“Sometimes you may feel lousy when the criticism accumulates – but I don’t let it get me down.”

Her sister’s advice – to remain positive despite detractors’ comments – has helped her look beyond the critics’ barbs.

“She told me that you can never please everyone and there’s only so much that you can do,” she said. “I can only try to learn and grow from my experiences.”

Having put her studies on hold, she is now concentrating on her career, but hopes to carry on where she left off on her studies someday.

“I hope I can study and work at the same time, even though I know it won’t be easy,” chirps the bubbly actress.

For now, Felicia said she was looking forward to “more fun-loving, energetic and vocal roles”. –

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