Singer Stanley Huang (黃立行) celebrated the success of his recent album We All Lay Down in the End (最後只好躺下來) by bedding 30 fans, the Apple Daily reported this week. But unlike Edison Chen (陳冠希), who managed to tackle at least half as many women — and has the images to prove it — Huang appeared with all the admirers at once, and fully clothed. The scoop, of course, turns out to be a PR stunt. And it worked.
Pop Stop has learned where singers from CTV’s One Million Star (超級星光大道) go when their shine wears off. Yoga Lin (林宥嘉), a first-generation winner of the talent show, took some time off from crooning last week to adjudicate a contest for models vying to become the spokeswoman for a brand of panty liners.
In an Apple Daily column headlined, “Strange old man chooses winner by staring at their derrieres (盯屁屁選妃怪叔叔),” Lin appeared in a photograph with two scantily clad models boasting that the panty liners are of such high quality that unsatisfied users could return the product.
Meanwhile, pop idol Wang Lee-hom (王力宏) might be in love, according to a report in the Apple Daily. His supposed love interest is Japanese singer Uehara Takako (上原多香子), who it seems has caught on late to the celebrity trend of going out without wearing any underwear a la Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.
Wang and Takako were shooting a music video together when the daily’s intrepid reporter snapped them lounging on a sofa, which revealed that Takako was knickerless. The gossip rag published the photo, but was unusually coy and censored the starlet’s lower thigh.
While Wang may be falling in love, Hong Kong singer and actress Vivian Chow (周慧敏), 41, is falling out of love. Or is that back in love?
The Canto-pop star’s relationship with on-again, off-again boyfriend Ni Zhen (倪震), 44, reportedly ended earlier in the week amid rumors that the couple were to marry by the end of this year, according to Apple and the Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper). Pictures published in the former showed Ni playing tonsil hockey with 21-year-old Miffty Zhang (張茆), a college student.
“I know that in everyone’s eyes I’m not a very good boyfriend,” he said in a message sent to the media. “I just want to be friends [with Chow].”
The Liberty Times, meanwhile, speculated that Ni openly two-timed Chow because he didn’t know how to reject her marriage proposal to her face. Apple, for its part, said that Zhang must be very “open-minded” because she often hangs out at pubs and her blog features numerous pictures of her wearing skimpy clothing and bikinis.
“I can date whomever I want,” Zhang reportedly said in response to media queries. “Besides, he’s not married.” Open-minded indeed.
Yesterday, however, the couple’s big day appeared to be back on after Ni sent out another e-mail to the media, announcing that the pair would soon wed.
Just after 6am, I walked up to the ticket gate at Taipei Main Station and entered the Taiwan Railway platform without scanning any ticket; instead, I flashed the Sanrio Fun Rail pass on my phone to the gate worker and was admitted. I found my train and prepared to board. My destination? This very same station. I was embarking on a 13-hour journey on one of two round-the-island trains operated by ezTravel. They run each day, one counterclockwise around the island and one clockwise. They differ in a number of ways from an ordinary Taiwan Railway train and can make for
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