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Stars come out for PSC 2011

Greetings and salutations, fellow star gazers! This is your Showbiz Sista with a shoutout for the upcoming President’s Star Charity 2011, coming up at the end of this month.

To be hosted by Glenda Chong, Gurmit Singh and Soo Kui Jien, this year’s show will benefit 28 different charity organisations. At a press conference today, some of the stars involved turned up for a short introduction.

Here are some of them.

15-year-old Julia Abueva will perform. “If you’re given a talent, you have to give back,” she said. Generous words.

A whole bunch of people will be performing Rose Rose I Love You and Ding Dong, including Pat Mok, Kym Ng, Belinda Lee and Stephanie Carrington…

… Paul Foster, Adam Chen, Zhang Yaodong and Pierre Png. As well as Xiang Yun, Huang Wenyong, Adeline Lim, Sora Ma and Alaric Tay.

“I’m going to take extra lessons on the side!” Pierre said.

“She cannot dance — her legs are so short!” said Pat, very meanly, about Kym.

Sylvia Ratonel will be performing Girls Rock together with EVE and Tabitha Nauser (who didn’t show up).

In addition, Gurmit Singh, Hossan Leong, Sheikh Haikel and Daren Tan will be performing a “four-chord medley” — “35 songs in five minutes!” Gurmit said — and Taufik Batisah and Hady Mirza will be doing a Man In The Mirror duet.

Special guests stars will be flying in, too: Chris Medina of American Idol fame and pop-classical boy vocal group, Il Volo.

Catch the Presidents’ Star Charity 2011 on July 31 at 7.30pm on MediaCorp TV Channel 5. Showbiz Sista, signing out. Live long and pop corn!


Dusting off the archives: A pictorial

EVERY TIME Christmas rolls around, I start to think of that John Lennon song wherein he sings, “And so this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over, a new one just begun…”

And what have we done? And more importantly, what have our favourite stars been up to? Well, we decided to go dust off our archives – and they really stretch a ways back – to bring you this pictorial selection.

 

MEETING THE ULTIMATUM

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While Tay Ping Hui, Fann Wong and Zoe Tay are preening for the cameras, what – or who – is Li Nanxing sticking his tongue out to? Maybe we’ll know when season two arrives.

 

THE SCOOP WITH BRYAN WONG

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One of our favourite dudes to interview – because he loves shooting his mouth off. Here he attempts to use a ladle to might light of his wok. (Geddit? Geddit?)

 

CHAI TOW KWAY TALK

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The movie came out this year, but this shot of director Michael Wang and his cast – Danielle, Andrea and Alaric – was done before they started filming The Carrot Cake Conversations. Note the absence of stress lines and spots.

 

SHOULD NDP BE FUNNY?

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Suhaimi Yusof and Michelle Chong, co-hosts for this year’s National Day Parade apparently thought so. Er. Yup. That’s it. Moving on…

 

DRAMA IN THE SUBWAY

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No, not that informercial where the lady goes, “Your bag!” and the man in the cap goes, “Not mine!” No, we’re talking about A Starry Night, a drama that was exclusively shown on the MRT screens here starring Kelly Poon (in cowboy hat). We like the way she and co-star Mei Xin snuck a glance over to us even as the others (like Korean singer Nathan Lee and Taiwanese star Robert Fan) were told to face front.

 

SHIRLEY, THAT’S NANCY!

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She’s got a big laugh and a big heart and seeing as she’s still going strong despite having two major operations in as many months, Nancy Sit – the most famous actress with a mole in the middle of the forehead – a big constitution as well.

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We also saw Hong Kong actress Shirley Yeung in the TVB anteroom waiting for her interview to start so we got her to pose for us. Unfortunately, we missed out on the actual interview because we were too busy shooting Nancy.

 

THE MUPPET MASTERS MEET THE LITTLE NYONYA

 

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The guys from the Jim Henson Company and BIG Communications flank Qi Yuwu and Jeanette Aw at the Singapore party thrown by the MDA in Cannes.

 

THAI FIGHTERS

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The cast of Dragonball Evolution popped into Bangkok earlier this year. Here are Emmy Rossum and Joon Park, aka Park Joon Hyung (above) and Samurai Girl Jamie Chung with Justin Chatwin (below).

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Of course, we couldn’t resist getting Jade Seah to ham it up for us.

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HAIR RAISING STUFF

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Either the wind-swept look is in or even the stars are not immune to the strong winter winds wandering over Hong Kong. Just see what it did to singer-actresses Karen Mok (above) and Joey Yung (below).

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