Wang Xing Yue Breaks Out with Close Airing of Dramas Scent of Time and Story of Kunning Palace with Yu Zheng Planning to Promote Him After Shelving Him Earlier in His Career to Focus on Xu Kai

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The recent deluge of C-drama premieres has its usual winners, losers, and just coasting through participants. A clear winner is C-actor Wang Xing Yue, who went from the everyone hates him male lead in Scent of Time to everyone loves him second male lead in Story of Kunning Palace, with the two dramas basically airing back-to-back thanks to scheduling issues … Continue reading →

C-actress Dilraba Dilmurat Looking for a Metamorphosis in the November 2023 Edition of Grazia China Magazine

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C-actress Dilraba Dilmurat has earned her spot on the top of the food chain in her generation so even an off year like 2023 feels like it will have no impact on her popularity or marketability. But this year really has been meh for her projects with The Legend of Anle compared to 2022 when she had The Blue Whisper … Continue reading →

tvN Youth and Music K-drama Twinkling Watermelon Wraps with Satisfying Ending Becoming One of Fall 2023’s Surprise Wins

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I’ve been watching recently finished tvN Mon-Tues drama Twinkling Watermelon since it premiered and it has been one of the most consistently satisfying K-dramas in recent memory. Starring Ryeo Un, Choi Hyun Wook, Seol In Ah, and Shin Eun Soo, the drama is like a reverse Hello, Me! time travel with the son going back to the past to meet … Continue reading →

TW-ent Abuzz with Rumor that Actress Janine Chang is Tying the Knot at Year End with Malaysian-Chinese Director Sam Quah

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So neither a confirmation or a denial speaks volumes haha and this one fits the bill. This weekend came the rumor that TW-actress Janine Chang, one of the remaining actresses of her gen that is still single, will soon joined the married contingent. The rumor is that she is marrying Malaysian-Chinese director Sam Quah (Ke Wen Li) who is best … Continue reading →

Established C-ent Gossiper Confirms Luhan and Guan Xiaotong are Still Going Strong 7 Years into Dating Defying All Odds

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With the recent breakup of Hyeri and Ryu Jun Yeol in South Korea entertainment, C-ent young couple Guan Xiaotong and Luhan remain under scrutiny for the state of their relationship. They started dating in 2017 during the height of his fame and her rise but now the star power can switched between them. When an established C-ent gossiper was asked … Continue reading →

Cast and Crew of MBC Sageuk My Dearest 2 Filmed to the Same Day of Final Episode Airing this Saturday with a Belated Wrap Party to Come

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If I were the crew of MBC drama My Dearest I wouldn’t want a wrap party I would want to sleep for 3 days straight and get paid due overtime for the crazy filming conditions. This weekend Saturday night is the airing of the final episode of My Dearest and from the SNS posts of the cast it was filming … Continue reading →

Japanese Figure Skating Superstar Yuzuru Hanyu Announces Divorce Months After Marriage Citing Media and Fan Intrusion into Privacy

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This is such a weird (and terribly sad if true) story and tangentially related to the topic of media and fan intrusion into the lives of celebrities its worth a post. Figure skating world legend and Japanese sports superstar Yuzuru Hanyu (who may be second only to Shohei Ohtani for how globally famous he is) has announced that he is … Continue reading →

Zhao Lu Si and Liu Yu Ning Start Filming Tang Dynasty Drama The Legend of Jewelry

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So I don’t check out the so-called booting ceremonies a lot, when a C-drama kicks off filming with prayers and red envelopes for good luck. But is it always so coordinated haha, because the cast and crew of Tang dynasty period drama The Legend of Jewelry were all wearing matching red jackets for the cast and blue jackets for the … Continue reading →

Dilraba Dilmurat Criticized by C-netizens for Her Frequent Gesture of Demurely Covering Her Chest at Events

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So this was a bit earlier in the year around summer time I recall but C-actress Dilraba Dilmurat got in the crosshairs of nitpicky C-netizens for her signature gesture that once you see it you know she’s going to do it at some point during an event. Reba puts her hand over her chest like she’s trying to prevent a … Continue reading →

Period Joseon Life is Full of Danger in New Drama Stills for Gyeongseong Creature with Park Seo Joon and Han So Hee

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I saw these new stills just after I finished watching The Marvels and it was exactly the eye bleach I needed to erase the image of Park Seo Joon as Prince Yan from my brain forever. Netflix released a batch of new drama stills for upcoming period creature feature series Gyeongseong Creature that sees Park Seo Joon and Han So … Continue reading →

Lin Geng Xin as Replacement Male Lead in The Golden Hairpin Falls Apart with New Choice in Peng Guan Yin to Reshoot Wu Yi Fan Scenes

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The reshoot in order to air period drama The Golden Hairpin will happen, it’s a matter of when and who not if. As an S+ budget drama there is just too much money sunk in to let it never air so earlier this year it was reported that Lin Geng Xin would be the replacement male lead for Wu Yi … Continue reading →

Yu Zheng Promoted Newcomer Zhao Qing Doesn’t Breakout with Scent of Time Instead Gets Flack for Not Being as Pretty as Photoshopped Pictures

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It’s quite common for agencies of main lead stars to insist on a newcomer from their agency get a second or supporting role as a plus one casting for a drama to help launch the comparative new face. Producer Yu Zheng is especially known for doing and the recent C-drama Scent of Time with Zhou Ye and Wang Xing Yue … Continue reading →

C-ent Abuzz with Gossiper Melon that Top Actress Yang Zi Secretly Has a Long Term Boyfriend

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Well this is a juicy midweek adrenaline rush in terms of hot gossip. A well known entertainment tabloid scooper in C-ent this week dropped the melon that top young actress Yang Zi was in fact not single. He claimed that Yang Zi was in a relationship with a long term boyfriend that lived in the same neighborhood as her hence … Continue reading →