Netizens attempt to expose Lu Chen's magic trick

Magician Lu Chen performed at CCTV’s Chinese New Year program for the third time on January 22. But netizens claimed that it only took them five minutes to solve all his illusions, which Lu Chen spent a month to develop. Netizens suspected that the table he used had a mirror-covered triangle base big enough to fit a person. Lu Chen responded, “Magic is an artistic performance. I’m not here to give out riddles for everyone to guess,” and emphasized, “So far, no one has guessed right. I knew that people were going to work their brains on this before I went on the program.”

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Ella Chen to get married this year

S.H.E.'s Ella Chen has been rumored to get married with her boyfriend for months now.

On the 26th, Ella surprised her fans and posted on her micro-blog, "Holding hands, Cherishing the moment, I am really lucky! Yes, I am....finally getting married...Rumors of me getting married have been circulating for quite a while now, thank you everyone for your support ~ I am happy to announce ~ We are really going to get married this year hope that everyone will find true love , and take advantage of each other, take care of each other! Day 4 of New Year. Happy New Year! "

Netizens were happy for Ella and commented, "Congratulations!", "You're finally getting married!", "When's the big day?".

Photo & Source: Ella's QQ Weibo

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Vic Chou and Mark Chao go head-to-head at box office

Many local movies have been released during the Chinese New Year holiday. Vic Chou’s “New Perfect Two” has already reached 10 million TWD at the box office after just four days. “Black & White Episode I: The Dawn of Assault” starring Mark Chao has grossed 40 million TWD after eleven days of release.

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Ming Dao films his last commercials before enlistment

As reported previously, there has been a lot of pressure put on stars who are delaying their enlistments. Following Ethan Ruan’s announcement that he will be completing alternative services next month, Ming Dao also announced recently that he will be suspending his studies and will be enlisted in February of this year.

Although it’s less than a month away, Ming Dao is working vigorously to earn as much money as he can before he goes. In addition to finishing the filming of the drama, “天使的幸福” (Happiness of an Angel), he went to Neihu to shoot a beverage commercial just a few days ago, which he was reportedly paid 24 million TWD for it. He will be filming one more commercial before going to the military.

When asked how he feels about fulfilling his military service, his manager expressed that Ming Dao is pretty relaxed about it. He has been completing all the work that needs to be done before he goes, “Being able to fulfill his responsibility as a citizen, he feels good about it.”

 Ming Dao is feeling about going into the military.

Source: LibertyTimes

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Leehom Wang films new Nike commercial with Kanye West

Among Tony Leung, Kaneshiro Takeshi, Zhang Ziyi, and other megastars, Leehom Wang has been chosen to be the new spokesperson for Nike in Asia, pocketing 30 million TWD. He recently went to the states to film the commercial for the KobeSystem Campaign along with Kanye West. During the shoot, the two stars chatted about music and even talked about a possible collaboration on the next album. (Top photo: Leehom gives Kanye his latest "Open Fire" compilation album.)

It was Leehom’s first time working in Hollywood. Not only the studio was well equipped, he also got his own personal van to rest in, and a table-tennis table set up to play during break. Leehom exclaimed, “It’s like I’m in heaven, it’s like we’re at a luxurious motel, and we can even play table-tennis!”

The sportswear brand has always gotten well-known athletes to be their spokesperson. It’s the first time that it has decided to work with stars of different industries and Leehom expresses that he cherishes this “unbelievable opportunity" very much.

Leehom has worked hard in establishing his fan following on the web in the last few years. He already has 12 million followers on his micro-blog and over a million fans on Facebook, making him the number one Chinese singer with the most online followers. Apart from his work in music and movies, it is also one of the reasons why he got chosen to become a spokesperson for the brand.







Source: Appledaily, UDN, nikebasketball

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Selina films new commercial with Hebe and Ella

Ever since Selina’s explosion accident, S.H.E’s commercials have been done with only Hebe and Ella. Thankfully, Selina has been recovering from the injury very well and has finally gone back to work to film the commercial for the clothing brand, “Top Girl”, which also marks their fifth year endorsing the brand. Since Selina can’t be standing for a long period of time, the staff worked efficiently and completed filming the commercial in five hours.

Selina showed her professionalism and stood during the filming while resting every three minutes. Ella teased, “She sure still has the touch. Her smile is still bright and captivating.” Following this commercial, S.H.E will continue to film commercials for other mainland clothing and shoe brands that they have renewed their endorsement contracts with.


Source: Appledaily

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A-Mei Chang, Show Luo, and others awarded as KKBOX's top 10 singers

The 7th annual KKBOX digital music awards was held yesterday. Despite A-Mei Chang had just returned from her trip to Boracay with her staff, she immediately immersed herself in work. She had just completed a show recording before attending the award show.  After receiving her award, she rushed to ASUS’s year-end company concert, which she reportedly got paid 5 million TWD to sing exclusively at their company's concert. Although award winners were to perform at the award show, A-Mei only sang a verse of “My Most Beloved” without music before she quickly left.

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Amber Kuo's new drama takes over "Office Girls" time slot

Amber Kuo appeared at a press conference yesterday to announce her new drama, “向前走向愛走” (roughly translates to Go Forward Towards Love), which will be taking over “Office Girls’” time slot. SETTV/TTV's  “Office Girls”, starring Roy Qiu and Alice Ke, has been leading in the ratings battle every week. Without a doubt, Amber’s new drama will be under a lot of pressure to sustain its ratings. Thus, Amber visited her old friend Roy on the set a few days ago in hope to get some help, “He was more serious when we filmed ‘Woody Sambo’. He has suddenly become so incredible in this drama...so captivating.” Roy expressed, “We talked about a lot of things like little tricks in acting. We exchanged a lot of knowledge with each other.”

Amber had just came back from her trip to Kenya for World Vision. As a result, she got scalp sunburn from the trip, “My scalp is peeling every day.” Moreover, she also got a tan, so she worries that her skin tone won’t match when she goes back to continue filming for her new drama.

Roy plays “Qin Zi Qi” in “Office Girls”, which has been loved by viewers of all ages. A 4 year-old fan even confessed her love and said that she wanted to marry him, but Roy said to the girl, “Wait until you grow up.”


Source: Appledaily, UDN

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Cast of Skip Beat! holds press conference to boost ratings

Super Junior members Donghae and Siwon were in Taiwan yesterday to attend the press conference for “Skip Beat!” along with their costars Ivy Chen and Bianca Bai. During the press conference, all four of them wrote Chinese New Year Couplets. Since Donghae and Siwon had learned how to write in Chinese before, their couplets turned out to be written quite neatly.

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Show Luo to release his first Japanese single

After Chinese New Year, Shou Luo will be going to Japan to release his first Japanese single, “Dante”. Instead of bringing over his tradition of “3 albums for a hug and 5 for a photo” in Taiwan, he will only be shaking hands with the fans at the autographing session.

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SETTV shortens prime time dramas to an hour

SETTV’s total profit exceeded 4.5 billion TWD last year, which is a 10% increase from the year before. At the end of the year, general manager Chang Rong-Hua proposed to invest 400 million TWD in producing Chinese dramas. Many are skeptical of his plan and are also concerned that the network will lose it’s competitiveness for shortening its daily prime time dramas from two hours to one hour. However, he explained, “Changing the current format of dramas is exactly what I hope to do. We will be focusing on producing Chinese dramas in order to provide more opportunities in the industry, as well as attracting behind-the-scene workers to come back. SETTV is taking the first little step. We must fight together so that Taiwanese dramas won’t become marginalized because of Korean and mainland dramas.” With that said, he plans to start airing dramas of various genres in the 9pm slot this year.

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[Updated w/ link] Ex-couple ELVA and Sunny Wang appear on Kang Xi Lai Le

Ex-couple ELVA and Sunny Wang actually appeared on the popular talk show, Kang Xi Lai Le, together. Hosts Kevin Tsai and Dee Hsu praised their courage. For those who didn't know, the two dated for three years, but have already broken up since five years ago.

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