Terri only had a towel covering her breasts on the cover of her new album, and wore a 5kg red-lipped hair accessory while balancing a tiny red sandal on her foot. Within ten minutes, she complained of a headache, and said “There’s so many challenges in becoming a singer! This is just too much! It’s very traumatizing for me!”

Actually, Terri has always loved the red-white sandal, and loves going to the nightmarket, contrary to many people’s belief that she refuses to wear anything that isn’t a brand name label. She loves to mix and match nightmarket finds with her brand name clothing to create a style entirely her own! In addition to having a sense of fashion, she is a multi-faceted artist and socialite on the outside, and warm and soft on the inside. Terri has always wanted to have a music career, and therefore has taken pains to show that she isn’t just a money-loaded socialite a la Paris Hilton. She will depend on herself and work hard to build up a rep worthy of Lady Gaga’s approval.

Nicknamed “Rebellious socialite”, in late June she passed the tests and challenges set by Golden Typhoon Records, and confirmed that she will be releasing “Unkept Secret” (TN: Not exact) in late July, an album set to challenge the Chinese music industry. Golden Typhoon Records has chosen to release her album in the heat of summer, and with her English name being “Terri Kwan”, they have decided to string an acronym “3K Queens” to associate her with their other artists, British singer Kylie Minogue and American Katy Perry. Golden Typhoon Records hopes that with this ultimate card, the three ladies will be able to have an explosive presence in the summer music market, and have also given Terri an unbelievable opportunity with such a prestigious lineup!

Yesterday, Terri worked on her MV from 8 am to 12 am, so Golden Typhoon’s workers ordered a specially designed red-lipped cake to match the one in her MV to celebrate her hard work. When she saw the cake, Terri exclaimed, “I totally forgot that my birthday is coming up!” Then she choked, “I was just about to ask the Director why he wouldn’t start filming yet, after making me wait so long, turns out they wanted to give me a big surprise!”

Source: nownews
Translation: casablanca– @ http://asianfanatics.net/

Jay Chou’s Superman might not be able to fly, but he sure saved the day for Cape No. 7 director Wei Te-Sheng. The star apparently loaned 40 million (NTD) to the director for his new movie Seediq Bale. Filming of the epic began last November and is not expected to complete until July. The film’s financial troubles has been widely reported as its budget has already ballooned to a whopping 600 million. Most recently, the production is said to be owing 2.6 million in car rentals.

Jay Chou reportedly made 550 million last year. His company JVR Music confirmed the rumor was indeed true, “Jay supports good movies, good directors. They needed money at the time, so Jay helped out, but we can’t disclose the actual amount.”

Seediq Bale producer Huang Chih-Ming responded, “Director Wei worked as the assistant director on the pre-production of Monga. We later collaborated on Secret. He thinks it’s very cool of director Wei to make Seediq Bale. He loaned us some money after knowing about our financial difficulties. It was paid back to him in April. We had a written acknowledgment. He only charged us $1 for interest, so we are very grateful for his help.”

Overview of Super “Charitable” Man
(All values in NTD)

1 million – President Chou donated to help a female dancer with getting a heart transplant.
13.2 million – Donated to the Sichuan Earthquake
12.8 million – Donated 2 million to the 88 flood initially and sponsored 300 children in the disaster area.
40 million – Loaned to Seediq Bale

Source: Cpop Access

Jay Chou continued to wow fans on the 3rd night of his concert at the Taipei Arena. Not only did he impress the audience with yet another performance, but more surprisingly, his rumored ex-girl friend Jolin Tsai was special guest of the night!

The Era 2010 World Tour marks the 4th tour in Jay Chou’s 10-year career. Its state-of-the-art visual effects and production is said to cost 100 million (NTD). However, the concert was criticized by fans for being too short and featuring too many singers from his company. Jay Chou was quick to react as he added 4 songs on the second night. JVR Music’s Lara, The Drifters, Cindy Yen and Gary Yang all took the stage. Unfortunately, The Drifters was noticeably the show’s washroom break when they performed.

After former J-Girls Jessie Chiang and Hebe attended the concert earlier, fans got a real surprise when Jolin Tsai appeared as the special guest on the final night. She ascended onto the stage while Jay Chou was singing “Give Me The Time of a Song” during the encore. Fans were shocked and excited as they screamed through the rumored ex-couple’s entire performance. Interestingly, Jay Chou previously said his special guest would be someone beyond everyone’s expectations. And yes, he has kept his word indeed.

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Source: Cpop Access

It’s a battlefield for Sunday idol dramas. FTV’s “Summer’s Desire” and CTV’s “Scent of Love” aired its first episodes. The four TV stations battled it out and the ratings were released yesterday. Blue Lan’s TTV/SETTV drama “PS Man” is still able to remain as the ratings champion. CTV, FTV, and CTS all received average ratings of only 0.8 to 0.95.

Audience Changes Their Heart, Drop of Ratings

Each of the four TV stations are singing their own tunes. “Summer’s Desire” is relying on Barbie Hsu and Huang Xiao Ming’s sensational kissing skills. With a Korean feel, “Scent of Love” revealed Viter Fan being dumped on a highway. According to AGB Nielsen ratings , “PS Man” clinched the champion title with a 4.24 rating. “Summer’s Desire” placed second with 0.95, “Scent of Love” with 0.86, and “Calling for Love” with 0.8. With a narrow difference of only 0.05 to 0.1, the ratings were generally low.

Source: The Liberty TImes
Translated by xbunnylicious @ asianfanatics.net

Last night, when S.H.E emerged from a corolla 6 stories high and looked down at their 10,000 fans in Taipei Area, they truly established their position as the Mandarin music industry’s “Heavenly Queen Group”, and Selina’s boyfriend shouting “Wife, I love you” was definitely the climax of the evening.

These three people have grown up, become sexy, but the affection and chemistry between them are proof that in their little universe, their harmonious relationship has not changed at all in the past 9 years.

Last night, among the guests was a special Mr. Zhang Cheng Zhong. He is Selina’s boyfriend and during the second encore, he suddenly came up, holding a note that was moist from sweat and looking towards the stage he said, “I hope that S.H.E will not have to stop singing because of me,” then following that he shouted, “Wife, I love you!” Selina was so shocked she started crying, then yelled, “Mom!”, causing lots of cheering from the audience below.

This is already the 6th stop and the 7th concert of the “S.H.E Is The One” tour, it has been 4 years since S.H.E have performed at Taipei Arena, when they emerged, they displayed all their power as music queens and the fans became subjects looking up at the charm of their idols, “Superstar” was the anthem of their nation, establishing the atmosphere for the concert. They are a girl group that has been around 9 years yet S.H.E and their fans have such cohesion, Selina cried again during their 5th song.

Selina and Hebe secretly planned a celebration in advance for Ella’s June 18 birthday, Ella originally tried not to cry when she realised how thoughtful her ’sisters’ were, but when they sang “Wife”, she couldnn’t help but cry until even her nose went completely red. Following this, the three superstar mothers also had a surprise in store, first they played a pre-recorded VCR expressing how much they love their daughters, that they wanted their daughters to “come home when you’re tired”, then in a blink of an eye, they became “S.H.E. superstar mom version”, singing “Not Yet Lovers”, making S.H.E who were totally not expecting this, all end up crying. then their tears turned into laughter. The three girls cried very easily last night, there were many occasions when they had to ask their makeup artist Du Guo Zhang to come onstage to help them reapply their makeup in front of the audience.

The costumes were extravagant and surprises were numerous, but the focus was still on S.H.E’s singing and dancing, the girls showed that they’ve become mature women now, showing their sexiness, revealing their shoulders and legs, twisting their hips. However, their conversations were very random and strange, when Selina finished the difficult dance, she cried, shouting, “Aiyo, now everyone can see that I’m wearing eyeliner.” She also said to fans, “Even though I haven’t showed you the tightest flesh, because I was skinnier in Hong Kong, I still gave you all a passionate heart.”

Last night, Show Luo sent flowers, Taipei’s mayor Hao Long Bin, Wang Wei Zhong, Kevin Tsai, Terri Kwan, Zhang Qiong Zi, Jiro Wang, Yoga Lin, Tank, Yan Zhi Lin and S.H.E’s many family members also came to support them.

Boyfriend appeared calling “wife”, Selina breaks into tears

S.H.E took their “S.H.E is the One” concert tour back home to Taipei last night and the Taipei concert was compared to a flagship, the girls sang for almost 4 hours, fans repeatedly requested for “encore” and there was one special fan who not only shocked fans but even made Selina break into tears.

Not only did Selina’s rumoured lawyer boyfriend come to the concert to support her, but what was even more touching was when he said, “I’m just an ordinary fan, like everyone else, I’m a fan who likes S.H.E and among them, I especially like Selina.” He expressed that everyone can see S.H.E strong friendship bonds and he hopes they will keep releasing albums, he hopes that they will never disband. Furthermore, Selina’s lawyer boyfriend greeted her as “wife”, making Selina, who had already broken into tears, feel even more lost, as fans all shouted, “Propose!”

The concert ended with S.H.E singing their debut song “Not Yet Lovers” for the audience, creating a fine ending. In addition to that, Selina exclaimed, “Finally I can officially reveal my love!”

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Source: UDN
Translated by catalie @ http://asianfanatics.net

BEIJING, May 29 — Jay Chou, Taiwan’s pop king, will sing the theme song for Jet Li’s new movie “Ocean Heaven.” It will be their second collaboration since Chou sang for Li’s 2006 movie “Fearless.” Guey Lunmei, Taiwan’s star and leading actress in the movie will also sing for the movie.

Dubbed as Jet Li’s first non-action work in his career, the movie tells a touching story between a father and his only son. When the father finds out that he is terminally ill, he decides to teach his only son, who is autistic, to live on his own.

Though viewed as a non-mainstream piece, it has attracted a group of big names to take part, including Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi and award-winning cinematographer Christopher Doyle.

Source: Xin Hua

Y2J has finally reunited! Yuming Lai, who was “frozen” by his record company in order to lose weight, returned on the 24th without a total of 12 kg lost.

Yuming, who has been known to “love” leftovers, used to be able to eat an entire table of dishes. Soon, his weight dramatically increased to 75 kg. It wasn’t until this March after Y2J finished recording their new album [Guardian/Shou Hu Zhe] that his record company issued him a warning:

If he wasn’t skinny enough, he would not be allowed to appear on camera. Instead, Jane Huang would be the only one promoting for a full month’s schedule. And the duo could only depend on the telephone and Internet to encourage each other.

Now that Yuming has slimmed down to 63 kg and gained a new haircut, he looks more youthful and strong. Since he has fulfilled his company’s wishes, he is able to return to the duo’s promotions before the 6/4 album release. Jane Huang presented him with a low-calorie sweet potato meal. Yuming also stood on the scale in order to let everyone witness his weight loss. He actually went from a 34 in waist to a size 29 waist!

Yuming, who never worked out after his high school graduation, now swims 1 km and bikes for 3 hours daily. He also walks 10 laps around the field. Within 2 months of this regimen, he lost 10 kg. Yuming’s mother worriedly asked him: “Are you taking weight-loss medicine?”

However, due to this rigorous amount of exercise, Yuming’s blood sugar has decreased dramatically and he has experienced insomnia and varying mood swings. Still, he feels accomplished through this hard work. He went from not knowing how to swim to swimming 1 km. Not to mention, his stamina has increased as well as his vocal range. Thus, Yuming has decided to continue his weight loss regimen until he is around 60 kg.

Although Yuming has lost 12 kg already, Jane Huang will not go easy on him just yet. Yuming joked: “She’s turned away a lot of the pretty girls from me so now I don’t have any pursuers!”

original source: Epoch Times
translated by minchong92 @ http://asianfanatics.net

Singing “Superman Can’t fly”, disclosing the thoughts of a heavenly king, in the new album “Hip Hop Air Hostess” and more, there are 3 songs related to flying,and it reflects his busy circumstances. Jay Chou buys cars without a second glance, but he smiled saying he has claustrophobia so he won’t be splashing out on a private jet.

His new album is called “The Era” and Jay Chou revealed that originally they planned to use a fighter aircraft for the cover. He would board it looking handsome; a symbol of travelling through time, continuing the concept of music and bringing the fans a mixed style of Chinese and Western flying forward. However, because of time constraints they didn’t have time to rent a fighter jet, and the idea had to be scrapped.

Earning a few hundred million annually, buying a plane is not hard. Jay Chou is often travelling from here to there, yet he’s never thought about buying a private jet because he has claustrophobia. When he gets on a plane he’s too scared to look behind, “Like being on an elevator, if it stops halfway, I might go crazy.” So when he gets on the plane he immediately goes to sleep, he’s never had the experience of flirting with pretty girls like in “Hip Hop Air Hostess”.

He said, in this album half of the songs were produced in America. At the time he was filming “The Green Hornet”, and he completed the music in his trail. There are 3 songs related to flying; it’s just a coincidence.

Yesterday the ever busy Jay Chou was interviewed on SET. Regarding rumours that Jay Chou is taking on the role of Bruce Lee in “Yip Man 3″, he denied this, saying: “I don’t look like Bruce Lee, plus playing Bruce Lee comes with a lot of pressure, I suggest getting Danny Chan from Shaolin Soccer, he’s more like him!” He expressed he’ll start filming “Secret 2″ next year, as usual he’ll be directing it himself and starring in it as well.

Jay Chou prudent over choosing partner, definitely won’t get divorced

Earlier, Jay Chou went on UFO Radio to promote his new album and the presenter Joseph Wang asked: “What kind of girl does your mother like?” He thought about it and said: “I guess someone who is filial and can do housework.” Joseph Wang concluded: “So outward appearance is not important?” He laughed shouting: “I think it’s important!” The mother and son are close, but their view on girls is very different.

Jay Chou wants everything to be diao, but he has a different side when it comes to his family. Nicholas Tse has given him some food for thought, “In the past I went to Hong Kong often, I bumped into him when he was still unmarried, but after I bumped into him later, he was already a father. I talked to him about being a father, and it was pretty special.” Tse is 30 this year, and Jay Chou is a year older. Seeing him already a father of two, he’s not in a hurry but his attitude is rather contradictory.

“If I had kids, I can take them out to play, go on shows, but once I go abroad, what will I do since I can’t accompany them?” He said, once he gets married, there’s no way he’ll get divorced, “So I’ll carefully choose (my other half).”

Source: UDN
Translated by: http://www.jaychoustudio.com

Rainie Yang will be having an autograph-concert session on May 9th, and didn’t have anything prepared to give to her mom for Mother’s Day, but has already had a small celebration with her sister and their mother. At the autograph session, fans yelled “Chen Lin mommy!” and gave her carnations. Coming from a single-parent childhood, Rainie pretended to be a strict mom and responded, “You have to be filial to your real mothers.”

When Jerry had a “chest bump” with Rainie at her concert a while ago, she blurted, “I’m worried you won’t find anything.” At the concert, she even lost her cleavage tapes, so fans presented her with a G-cup cake, and purposely stuck on a floral pattern on the bra. Not even a B cup herself, Rainie confessed that in junior high, she drank milk thinking it would increase her cup size, but instead helped her grow 10cm.

Source: China Times
Translation: casablanca– @ http://asianfanatics.net/

Celebrity spokesperson fees often reach an outrageous 7 figure number, but if you “borrow their image”, then it’s free! Recently, netizens have found that a Mainland clinic has illegally taken Wu Zun’s photo to advertise a circumcision procedure; and Hong Kong star Andy Lau’s name has also appeared on ads selling salted ducks.

The more popular the celebrity, the higher revenue that their advertisements rake in. One of Mainland China’s clinics found a liking to the well built, handsome and multi-talented Wu Zun, and privately attached his photo on the advertisements. At first glance, Wu Zun appears educated and professional with his glasses, but that image clashes with what he is promoting: a Korean style circumcision procedure. A blurb above his head states that it is “only 80RMB (360TWD)” to complete the surgery. Wu Zun was both angry and amused that his picture was used to advertise a procedure that he evidently did not agree to.

In Mainland China, celebrities’ images being taken advantage of has happened so often it is considered the norm. Popular singer Andy Lau had similar occurrences. A 60 year old Andy Lau, who lived in the Mainland, sold salted ducks and sausages for a living, and had run his shop there since 1960. To protect his copyright, he used his own name to register the license, never imagining that he would run into a court battle with Andy Lau, who was suing him for reputation violation. The old man was very distraught, because his only error was having the same name as the huge star, and had to be involved in a court case.

Source: Nownews
Translation: casablanca– @ http://asianfanatics.net/