Sexy young mom Little S (小S) has once again become the target of envy of all those women who want to marry well. She and her sweetheart Mike Xu (許雅鈞), from a rich medical family, threw a celebrity-studded banquet in Taitung (台東) last week to celebrate the first month anniversary of their daughter's birth.
Family and friends were moved to tears as they watched the video footage of the couple's life together, before packing themselves into sedans and driving off to Mando-pop queen A-mei's (阿妹) 6,000 ping private resort for a late-night party.
It is said that the resort, which has an Aboriginal theme and includes camping grounds, bed-and-breakfast and other tourist facilities, will be open to the public in June.
FILE PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
The guest of honor at the party said she was happy with domestic life and wished to have a second baby next year. It needs to be a boy if Little S' mother-in-law is to be kept happy, for she wants someone to carry on the family name.
The disbanded four-piece boy group F4 had a reunion last week in Hong Kong. Though promoted as their last Hong Kong concert, the performances failed to attract as much media attention as the rumored romance between F4's Jerry Yan (言承旭) and local diva Lin Chi-ling (林志玲). Lin was reported to have mysteriously disappeared during a commercial shoot in Guangzhou (廣州) and was later spotted poorly disguised at the F4 concert.
As for the concerts themselves, they were more of a musical disaster, as the pretty boys were caught lip-syncing to pre-recorded songs when they were forced to stop as they couldn't hear their own voices on stage.
After teen idol Tony Yang (
It's all good and thoughtful, but somebody needs to tell Yang that dining at McDonald's isn't really an ideal way to make up for misdemeanors.
Hong Kong paparazzi may suffer the biggest blow of their history if local government passes a proposed new law to keep them in line. Hong Kong stars and celebrities are all in favor of the legislation and have even suggested holding a parade to show their determination to fight the wicked paparazzi.
Taiwan's own paparazzi-hater Jay Chou (周杰倫) was reported as giving his full support to his Hong Kong peers and bemoaned the back-wardness of Taiwan's legal system.
Hong Kong former heartthrob Roy Cheung (
Local variety show Public Pressure Cooker (全民大悶鍋) seems to have become a popular channel for foreign media to understand Taiwan's social and political changes. After making it onto CNN news, the show was introduced by Associate Press in a feature story that takes the show as an illustration of the maturity of Taiwan's society to embrace its sometimes biting satire on politics and social phenomena.
Amid the ongoing scandals over corruption and political bickering, this should come as a positive development as far as Taiwan's international exposure goes.
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