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Hung Hsiao-lei stands accused of being an amateur. PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES

With all the buzz about super models these days, it was only a matter of time before competition over who will be the next hottest thing after Lin Chih-ling (林志玲) began to flare up in public. Model and actress Lily Tien (田麗) took a bold swipe at model and TV-show hostess Hung Hsiao-lei (洪曉蕾) on Hung's girl-oriented talk show on Monday during an exclusive interview on Super TV. Looking Hung in the face, Tien said, "Models who try to be TV hostesses are all amateurs. I'm an expert."

Later, when the Great Daily News (大成報) tried to get some elaboration on the point, she simply said, "All I know is that she's an amateur."

There was more cattiness in celebrity circles this week when model Pace Wu (吳佩慈) not-so-politely refused an invitation to promote her new book Beauty Expert (美麗達人) on entertainment talk-show host Mickey Huang's (黃子佼) show. Wu is a close friend of Little S (小S), who was dropped quite publicly and dramatically by Huang about three years ago and the fallout from that episode evidently

Pace has no love for Mickey Huang. PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES

lingers to this day. Responding to questions about her refusal to appear on the show, she said, "The best thing Mickey ever did for Little S was to break up with her.

She added, "If I knew [Huang's current girlfriend] Bao-bao (寶寶) earlier, I'd have told her not to get together with Mickey."

Not one to take a cheap shot sitting down, Huang, who is a best-selling author in Taiwan, countered with a reported tone of sharp sarcasm, "I wish her luck with her new book."

A crowd turned up in Shanghai over the weekend. Not to protest the Japanese, but to see Jay. PHOTO: AP

A final chapter in the extramarital affair between TVBS anchors Chen Sheng-hung (陳勝鴻) and Pan Yen-fei (潘彥妃) may have been written in a text message sent from an unknown location by Pan to the Apple Daily (蘋果日報), which originally broke the news of the affair. In the message Pan says she had "lost all hope for life" and that she's already broken contact with her family. She goes on to say that she now "has nothing to her name, except total despair."

The alarming tone of the message leads one to hope that Pan is somewhere quiet and picturesque cooling her jets and regaining some much needed perspective. Maybe she could go to Africa, where the romance with Chen was reportedly first sparked, and talk to a few people with far better reasons to feel sorry for themselves.

Jay Chou (周杰倫) was in Shanghai over the weekend to promote his new movie Initial D (頭文字D) and landed in a bit of hot water by going to one of the city's better-known hostess bars. Always watchful of snooping media, Jay stayed in the clear by drinking watermelon juice all night and keeping his hands firmly wrapped around his glass, according to Next Magazine (壹週刊). One of the hostesses quoted in the report even did him a favor, though probably unwittingly, by saying Jay was "pretty boring."

Concerns were voiced in several media over the weekend about the box-office prospects in China of Jay's movie, which is adapted from a popular Japanese comic book and was shot in Japan with Ann Suzuki (鈴木杏) and a Hong Kong all-star cast of Edison Chan (陳冠希) and Anthony Wong (黃秋生). There is fear that the current tide of anti-Japanese sentiment will keep people away from theaters -- or worse.
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