Justvb | A moment with Just TVB on your mind

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net

Raymond Lam and Kate Tsui were the hot favorites for TV King and Queen at the TVB Anniversary Awards 2012, but unfortunately lost to Wayne Lai and Tavia Yeung. Today on Christmas, each are busy with their own jobs. Kate just finished shooting the Lunar New Year film (I Love HK 2013) and will be busy from beginning to end of the coming year. A rare opportunity that she gets a day off, Kate tries to have the best of fun with her family and friends as they gather for a Christmas party. Tomorrow, she'll be going back to work in Beijing and will celebrate a White Christmas there while she's at it. Kate smiled and said its a memorable Christmas. She reveals that her relatives has been trained since youth to become a "Big 2 Master", so she can.

Although Kate lost the TV Queen award, she is still loaded with jobs and will have a prosperous year. When asked what Christmas gift she's getting herself as a reward? Kate said: "I've always wished to live with my family, in fact, what I want most is to buy a bigger house, so we can all live together. I am currently saving up for the down payment." Kate didn't get the TV Queen title, but compared to Tavia, she won the audience hearts, asked if she feels that's more important than the award? She said: "The speech I made on stage is from the bottom of my heart. I feel so warm knowing so many colleagues like me. I've gained a lot." Raymond and Kate's relationship is like 'aiya' siblings, does Kate feel its a pity that he didn't get the TV King award? She said: "Of course I feel disappointed, Ah Fung (Raymond) is a three-habitat artist, he handles all three areas of TV, film and music really well."

As for Raymond, he is shooting for a Mainland drama during the Christmas holidays, and will not be able to celebrate with his family. Raymond is also holding a concert in January, so aside from shooting series, he has to record songs and rehearse for the concert.

FUNG, the new member in the group, worked well with HIM and often hits the nail, but they also understand that they must comply with the regulations of the job. They must not give false hopes to the seeker and bring unnecessary pain to them. Gradually FUNG and HIM developed feelings for one another, but unfortunately HIM already had a girlfriend TING PUNG CHI (Lin Xiawei), who just hoped her own happiness could bring even greater happiness to others...

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net
Photo credit to XINmsn


In the past few years, Nancy Wu collaborated with Wayne Lai on three separate occasions including Rosy Business, Forensic Heroes III and most recently The Confidant. In The Confidant, Nancy's role is quite heavy as she appears from beginning to end, and she develops an ambiguous palace maid-eunuch relationship with Wayne. Nancy and Wayne have paired up several times and the chemistry just gets better each time. In addition, Nancy's acting has been getting positive feedback, Nancy said, "Wayne is a great actor. I've learned a lot after working with him so many times. At first, I felt really pressured, but now it's gotten better and my expectations has gone up as well. This time, I had a very comfortable collaboration with him because the story is about an ambiguous relationship between the two of us, so there isn't many hugs and kisses involved. Most of our scenes comes from the heart and emotions. We really like the story too." 


Netizens called the Nancy and Wayne pairing "Lin Yung" (lotus) because Nancy's character is "Sin Yung" and Wayne is "Lin Ying". Not just that, the two also has a duet, The Confidant's sub theme, Sun and Moon. In fact, Nancy participated in the New Talent Singing Contest before, and her singing skills are up to standards. She only got 'half a song' this time, but still satisfied her cravings. She said: "It is such a rare opportunity that I get to sing. Friends and fans who know me, knows that I love singing. I've waited for this day for a long time. I'm already very happy to be able to sing half a song for the anniversary."

This year, Nancy won "Best Supporting Actress" at Astro On Demand's Awards 2012 in Malaysia and at the 17th Asian Television Awards 2012 on 6th Dec) based on her mute/deaf role "Ting Yan Chi" in Gloves Come Off. The TVB Anniversary Awards is just around the corner, and Nancy can start promoting for her role in The Confidant. When asked if she's desperate to win awards? She frankly said: "Actually, yes. I've always been a supporting actress and I quite enjoy being in supporting roles. Of course, I do hope to become a lead actress some day, but take it one step at a time. I have confidence and TVB has confidence on me." However, this year the 'Supporting Actress' nominees are strong. She said: "This year there is a lot of competition, such as Mandy Wong, Aimee Chan and Elena Kong are all very outstanding."

Source: Mingpao, Oriental Daily, Weibo
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TVB celebrated their 45th anniversary (Nov. 19th) last night at the annual TVB Anniversary Gala show. TVB actively competed with Ricky Wong's unlicensed CTI and came out as the 'King of HK Television'. Yesterday TVB got a full page of advertisements on several newspapers and magazines, showing off their many years of contributions to the HK television industry and they plan to invest $10 billion in the future on their business. Last night, Dodo Cheng led the group of artists to say the 34 character statement: "What we need is a stable operation and service environment for a free-to-air TV station to survive in this industry and for continual development." The message was to let the government know their position on free-to-air television licenses.


Yesterday TVB published an advertisement that took up the whole page on several newspapers and magazines stating that in the past 45 years, TVB have contributed in spreading Hong Kong culture to the society and Chinese populations all over the world. Besides the 34 character statement to the government, TVB also announced last night that they have established a "TVB Artistes Charitable Fund" to help third world countries, including those who have sudden financial difficulties, those in poverty and care for the elder. Currently the fund has already raised HK$30 million and the movement will begin next year.

105 year old former chairman Sir Run Run did not attend the anniversary, but Eric Tsang expressed he's at home watching the show. Executive chairman Norman Leung responded to the free-to-air TV license issue: "TVB just wants to know from the government, anyone who applies for a TV free-to-air license can get one? How many licenses will be issued then? It is most significant that TVB has a stable environment to develop further. I am the executive chairman, I want to know how many more free-to-air licenses will be issued in the future? I have to have answers for our shareholders and a business plan for the future. When our license expires in 2015, we will renew it."

The anniversary performances didn't have many surprises. Kate Tsui, Rebecca Zhu, Mandy Wong, Christine Kuo and other beautiful girls performed "Goddesses Falls for the Net", where they did a dance on the net. The girls were dressed rather conservatively and there wasn't much to look at. After Kate finished her performance, she started crying and said: "I'm so touched, I finally completed this performance. The rehearsal was truly difficult and I got many injuries."

Most of the attention was on the 'heavy after taste' parody skits for anniversary series Silver Spoon Sterling Shackles (SSSS) and The Confidant. The male artists including Moses Chan, Wayne Lai, Roger Kwok and Michael Tse did the male version of SSSS and disguised themselves as the four wives. Nat Chan played Damian Lau's character. The four "wives" acted very girly and surrounded Nat trying to kiss him. Kristal Tin pretended to be an eunuch from The Confidant, she took out a knife and pretended as if she was going to "castrate" Nancy Sit and then she suddenly took out a banana and started cutting it madly. Law Lan, Ching Ho Wai and Mary Hon were dressed as wild cat girls, shocking the audience.

When it was time for the games, Moses had to sit on his girlfriend Aimee Chan's lap, which frightened him so much he almost fell over, but Aimee hugged her lover tightly on her lap. Ruco Chan was asked to sit on sexy JJ Jia's lap. However, he only sat on the side, but still he almost crushed JJ. Aimee pretended to be Mrs. Chan and pushed the 'baby' Moses off. Then Moses miserably got milk powder and ground coffee splattered all over him and Aimee tried to defend her boyfriend and blocked it. The lucky money gift winners of the night were Wayne Lai, who won a $1 million prize and Raymond Lam won HK$50,000 red envelope.

Source: Oriental Daily
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Source: Mingpao
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Source: Oriental Daily
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Source: Oriental Daily
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Source: Mingpao
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This year's hot favorite for TV Queen, Tavia Yeung, was rumored that she's using 'cheap' tactics to crackdown her competitor Kate Tsui. She asked her boyfriend Him Law to sign a TVB contract in exchange for the award. Yesterday the cast of anniversary series Silver Spoon, Sterling Shackles including Tavia, Damien Lau, Kenneth Ma, Ron Ng, Rebecca Zhu, Sire Ma, JJ Jia and Elena Kong attended the promotional event. Damien is also seen as a favorite for the TV King award, he laughed: "I've been a favorite for many years! But leave it for the younger generation. At this age, awards aren't as important to me. I support Kenneth Ma and Tavia this year. (Michelle Yim is a hot favorite too.) She's not in my series, I don't care about her."

Yesterday at the promotion, Damien's five 'wives' gave him a kiss and the event organizers prepared a cake to celebrate his 63rd birthday. After the ladies gave Damien kisses, there were lipstick marks left on his cheeks.

Recently a magazine reported Tavia wanted to defeat her strongest TV Queen competitor, Kate Tsui, so rumored boyfriend Him Law signed a 'lifelong' contract with TVB in exchange for the award. In regards to this, Tavia said: "I think that is really funny. I've been in the industry for so long, I signed a 'lifelong' contract long ago, then how come TVB hasn't given me the award? The report is purely fabricated, the media said I used 'cheap tactics to kill Kate', but I'm good buddies with Kate, and I don't want fabricated news to affect our relationship." When asked if she thinks Kate is her greatest competitor? Tavia said she's not anxious for the award. Did she talk to Him about a 'lifelong' contract with TVB? "Nothing to talk about, I didn't ask if its true or not. I don't care about that, just as long as TVB helps us earn more money. (Do you support Him signing a TVB contact?) I 'sold' myself already, but everyone has the right to choose, just as long as he's happy."

Source: Mingpao, Oriental Daily
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