I’m inching towards celebrity wedding overload after successive Chinese and Taiwan huge stars have gotten married in the last two months alone, but I think I have it in me for one more celebratory post. TW-actor/singer Ken Zhu, most famously of group F4, got married to his C-actress girlfriend Han Wen Wen this weekend in Bali. It’s yet another destination … Continue reading →
And here I was thinking that all the splashy star wedding festivities were done for the summer of 2016, who knew the biggest surprise was saved for last. Chinese-speaking entertainment started the weekend off with a huge happy shocker – A-list movie actress Shu Qi is married to her boyfriend of four years HK-star Stephen Fung! The two released wedding … Continue reading →
A round of congrats is in order for TW-actor Peter Ho as he tied the knot with his non-entertainment industry girlfriend Peggy who he has dated for the last 9 years. It’s not as long running as when James Wen married his long time girlfriend of 17 years but 9 years is still majorly impressive. Peggy is as gorgeous as … Continue reading →
The Chinese-speaking entertainment industry wedding bonanza summer of 2016 continues unabated, with the news that TW-actress Tammy Chen is tying the knot with her boyfriend of one year. The wedding is set for the end of September in Chang Mai, Thailand, and the engaged couple also went overseas to take wedding pictures. The couple selected Hokkaido, Japan for the location … Continue reading →
This year’s Hallyu surge may have come to a screeching halt thanks to political posturing over South Korea installing the US-built THAAD deployment so close to Chinese range. Of course politics can intrude on entertainment, it always had and always will, and in this case one wonders how long it’ll last and which actors/actresses/dramas/films will get affected in the interim. … Continue reading →
What is going on in K-ent this summer? There now feels like a never ending stream of sexual assault allegations again K-actors starting with Yoochun to Lee Jin Wook to Lee Min Ki and now adding Uhm Tae Woong to the ignominious collection. New broke this week that a woman is accusing Uhm Tae Woong of sexual assault at a massage … Continue reading →
This is about as surprising a left hook dating news as any – veteran movie star and drama actor Shin Ha Kyun is dating rising movie and drama actress Kim Go Eun. Color me as surprised as any to hear this news, and not for any negative reaction insomuch as encountering two items not in any near orbit colliding. They … Continue reading →
Harper’s Bazaar is holding it’s annual China Star Charity Night Out and with it comes the attendant promotional activities to garner as much interest as possible. It’s fine for fashion to mingle with entertainment and do it for charitable causes, pretty people are the perfect shill to get the public to spend time and money. For the upcoming 2016 event, … Continue reading →
The Mandarin-speaking entertainment world has been on fire with weddings this summer of 2016, with two already in Ruby Lin–Wallace Huo and Chen Xiao–Michelle Chen, and another one coming along with Peter Ho and his fiancee. There’s a fourth one coming along that also serves to whittle down the remaining bachelors of the original Taiwanese F4 – actor-singer Ken Zhu … Continue reading →
Having a drama fail to engage me despite starring an actor or actress I really like is becoming so routine now, and I cut my losses quick nowadays rather than slog on. It also means I fail to see how the performances are fleshed out as the drama progresses, only getting an initial glimpse before the story line or poor … Continue reading →
Another set of wedding congrats is in order for the Chinese-speaking entertainment world marriage filled summer of 2016 – TW-actor Peter Ho is getting married on September 1 to his long time non-celebrity girlfriend Peggy after a nine year long under the radar relationship. The two registered their marriage in Taiwan already this past March but the wedding ceremony is … Continue reading →
I’ve been wondering when the CF world would come knocking on the door of married acting couple Ji Sung and Lee Bo Young, and the first joint commercial hit it out of the park in terms of maximizing their appeal. The Ace bed company hired the parents of adorable toddler daughter Kwak Ji Yoo to hawk it’s line of super … Continue reading →
The return of Jang Geun Seok to K-ent this year is by and large a resounding success, this after his attempt last year while doing Three Meals a Day: Fishing Village was scuttled due to fallout from a previous tax scandal. This year in 2016 he started off on hit music show Produce 101, then did the SBS sageuk Jackpot (The … Continue reading →
