Edwin Siu feels Kevin Cheng's smell on Grace Chan when filming kissing scene

Edwin Siu (蕭正楠), Grace Chan (陳凱琳) and Ben Wong (黃智賢) are promoting Birth of a Hero (翻生武林) series on 02 March and it is an unforgettable memory to Edwin when he films a particular kissing scene with Grace. At that time, she is hanging in the air and he can feel Kevin Cheng's (鄭嘉穎) smell on her. Grace says: "I can smell Priscilla Wong's (黃翠如) smell on him too." Edwin explains the kissing scene is to pay tribute to Stephen Chow (周星馳) as he tends to imitate the kissing scenes from him sometimes and remind the audiences of the old classic scenes.

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Ben Wong acts with Adia Chan for the first time; Alice Chan is willing to move dead bodies

Ben Wong (黃智賢), Alice Chan (陳煒), Adia Chan (陳松伶) and others try out their role images and attend the worshipping ceremony for TVB new series, First Lady (危城First Lady) on 26 February. Ben expresses he is colleague with Adia in the series and it is their first collaboration despite filming Flash Fax (閃電傳真機) several years ago. He comments that Adia's role character is ridiculous and gets to wear glamorous clothes although sleeping at the street.

Alice reveals Ben acts as her first lover and gets married subsequently. She is willing to move dead bodies and sell stolen properties to make a living. Asking if it is her first time to act as a mother, Alice says: "Nope. I can have older children in reality." She also sleeps for 3 days during Lunar New Year due to filming series continuously.

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Adia Chan transforms into "Charlie Chaplin" to investigate cases

Adia Chan (陳松伶), Ben Wong (黃智賢), Alice Chan (陳煒), Chan Wing Chun (陳榮峻) and his fiancee, Helen Ng (吳香倫) try out their role images and attend the worshipping ceremony for TVB new series, First Lady (危城First Lady) on 26 February. In the series, Adia disguises as a man and gets to wear glamorous clothes. She imitates Charlie Chaplin and investigates cases as the female version: "It is my first time to act this role character and there is many dialogues to memorise. It is fun when filming The No No Girl (全職沒女) series but it is a serious role character this time. It is also considered challenging and a breakthrough to me."

Adia needs to woo girls and go after Griselda Yeung (楊卓娜) in order to investigate cases in the series. Griselda feels she is a man and falls in love with her. Adia believes she has to practise speaking dialogues at home as it is her first time to speak in beard.

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Ali Lee's relatives give up on urging her to get married

Tony Hung (洪永城), Ali Lee (李佳芯) and Ben Wong (黃智賢) attend the dinner gathering for Watch Out Boss (波士早晨) series on 22 February. Mentioning about the series is finally airing after 3 years, Tony admits he dares not watch his acting skills: "I film Watch Out Boss series immediately after Captain of Destiny (張保仔) series and realise I use the pirate's method to scold people. I believe there is room for improvements when watching it again."

Ali expresses that she has been accompanying her family for greetings during Lunar New Year and giving red packets with 5 digits figure to her parent. Her relatives do not urge her to get married this year and asking if her boyfriend, Danny Chan (陳炳銓) is besides her, Ali says: "Nope. It should reach the stage of discussing marriage and I hope to bring my boyfriend to see my parent." Ben believes the ratings record should be satisfactory and his wife laments that he can perform better.

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Watch Out Boss series: Flora Chan is absent and Ben Wong says they understand it

Ben Wong (黃智賢) promotes TVB new series, Watch Out Boss (波士早晨) on 06 February and it is finally airing in March, but the female main lead, Flora Chan (陳慧珊) is absent from the campaign. He reveals Flora acts as his ex wife and they finally get to work together after knowing each other many years. Ben praises she is serious and has her own principles. He feels elated to collaborate together and mentioning about Flora's absence, Ben says: "No choice. We did chat in group chat and she is supporting this series too. We understand it and it is not within our control about the date of airing."

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Oscar Leung defends Timmy Hung: He is a responsible father

Oscar Leung (梁烈唯), Louisa Mak (麥明詩), Ben Wong (黃智賢) were present at the dinner party for It's Like This, Your Honour (是咁的，法官閣下) series on 14 December. When mentioned about his good friend, Timmy Hung (洪天明) was pointed to having an extramarital affair in China, Oscar replied he did notice the news without reading the contents. He defended Timmy was a responsible father: "I do not believe the news at all if you ask me about it. I believe Timmy is a responsible and hardworking father. (Is it because of drinking?) I do not think so. He is a father and has been working in showbiz for many years. I definitely trust him."

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Single Alice Chan is celebrating Christmas alone: All good guys are taken away

Alice Chan (陳煒), Ben Wong (黃智賢), Stephanie Che (車婉婉), Max Cheung (張達倫), William Chak (翟威廉), Arnold Kwok (郭子豪), Gigi Wong (黃淑儀) and others try out their role images for TVB new series, Good Days (好日子) on 29 November.

Ben comments he is very lucky as he can work together with 2 beautiful culinary goddess, Alice and Gigi and gets to try delicious food everyday. As for Alice, she resumes to her single status and is not afraid of spending Christmas alone: "I am happy all the way." Ben replies Alice has good qualities and lots of guys waiting for her when the reporters suggest him to introduce guys to her but she says: "No choices and opportunities as all good guys are already taken."

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Nothing Special Force VS The Exorcist's Meter series: Mandy Wong feels happy if the series get award

Ben Wong (黃智賢), Jacqueline Wong (黃心穎), Mandy Wong (黃智雯) and others are promoting Nothing Special Force (雜警奇兵) series on 24 November and Jacqueline wins Mandy easily when playing games and is classified as "strong baby". Mandy joins TVB for 10 years and is given long service award a few days ago. She is happy to see both series, Nothing Special Force and The Exorcist's Meter (降魔的) receiving good reviews and treats it normal when it comes to award. Mandy feels it is a bonus as long as the audiences love watching it.

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Jacqueline Wong is bringing Kenneth Ma to her sister's wedding banquet next year?

Jacqueline Wong (黃心穎), Mandy Wong (黃智雯) and Ben Wong (黃智賢) are promoting Nothing Special Force (雜警奇兵) series on 11 November. The bed scene about Jacqueline will be airing soon and she feels embarrassed due to unfamiliar with the opposite party. Asking if she allows her rumoured boyfriend, Kenneth Ma (馬國明) to watch SM scene, Jacqueline says: "He will watch it but should be laughing at me most likely."

As it is Singles Day on 11th November, Jacqueline expresses she is not anxious to get married: "My elder sisters are currently single but my third elder sister will be getting married next year. (Bringing Kenneth along?) Depends on his identity and let's see if we can become closer. (How?) I have no plans yet."

Although Mandy is in a relationship for 5 years, but she has no intention for marriage yet and asking if she is waiting for Elaine Yiu (姚子羚) to get married first, Mandy says: "We are not competing and hope they will settle down soon."

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Jacqueline Wong accidentally exposes herself when promoting series

Jacqueline Wong (黃心穎), Mandy Wong (黃智雯), Ben Wong (黃智賢), Cheng Sze Kwan (C君) and others promote Nothing Special Force (雜警奇兵) series on 23 October and Jacqueline accidentally exposes herself while playing billiard together. Subsequently, Jacqueline describes she is having a dream upon winning My Favourite TVB Supporting Actress (我最愛TVB女配角) award based on Provocateur (與諜同謀) series during StarHub TVB Awards 2017 (星和無綫電視大獎2017).

Jacqueline reveals it is her first time to win an award after emerging as the first runner-up during Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant. Thus, she becomes emotional and is crying while delivering her thank you speech upon winning an award at that moment. Jacqueline expresses her gratitude towards everyone and asking if she thanks her rumoured boyfriend, Kenneth Ma (馬國明), she says: "Yes, he has been encouraging me all the way and all my emotions are released after joining for 5 years. (Any celebrations?) He is travelling to Shanghai and I return to Hong Kong not long ago. Anyway, I enjoy my sleep, massage and scraping. (Some netizens pour cold water on her?) It is not easy to face contented people."

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Grace Wong has kissing scene with Lisa Chong: It is my first on-screen kiss with a woman

Louisa Mak (麥明詩), Grace Wong (王君馨), Ben Wong (黃智賢), Eddie Kwan (關禮傑) and others attend the worshipping ceremony of It's Like This, Your Honour (是咁的，法官閣下) series on 20 September. Louisa reveals they have started the filming for 2 weeks and it is less suffering as the main leads are filming separately. She also starts to have good results from wearing braces and it is obvious that her face is getting slimmer and looking better in front of the camera: "It should not affect the kissing scene. (You have kissing scenes?) No idea as the ending script is still not out yet but Grace Wong has many passionate kissing scenes."

Grace admits she has few kissing scenes with Lisa Chong (莊思明) and it is her first on-screen kiss with a woman: "I feel slightly nervous as have not kiss a woman before." Louisa suggests drinking to increase the courage although she has not try it before.

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Nothing Special Force series: Mandy Wong appears as an expecting woman image

Ben Wong (黃智賢), Mandy Wong (黃智雯), Jacqueline Wong (黃心穎) and others are promoting Nothing Special Force (雜警奇兵) series on 18 September. Mentioning about airing for 2 hours on every Sunday, Ben Wong feels it is not bad to air on Sunday and the series brings some suspense.

Reminding that the rating record of Legal Mavericks (踩過界) series is average when broadcasting on weekend earlier, Ben Wong replies it is expected as it is airing on Sunday only and she does not really care about it as every audience has different taste. She believes her efforts will pay off eventually.

Mandy appears as an expecting woman image and the series is worth to watch and it can completes each case every night.

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Jacqueline Wong and Samantha Ko enjoy hot spring together

Ben Wong (黃智賢), Jacqueline Wong (黃心穎), Mandy Wong (黃智雯) and others are playing games together while promoting Nothing Special Force (雜警奇兵) series on 18 September.

Jacqueline reveals she returns to Hong Kong after filming tour show with Sammy Leung (森美) and Samantha Ko (高海寧). Asking if she spends lots of money when staying there for 10 days, Jacqueline replies she takes advantage of some free time to buy ornaments for herself. When asked if she buys it for her rumoured boyfriend, Kenneth Ma (馬國明), Jacqueline says: "Food only as he dislikes toys. (Buy for his mother as well?) I am unsure if he gives it to her mum and leave it to him to decide."

Jacqueline also discloses an embarrassing incident when having hot spring with Samantha there: "She is wearing a swimsuit in the bathrobe while I only wear bathrobe. She removes her swimsuit after that and there is no reason that I should not look at her beautiful body."

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Phoenix Rising series has poor ratings record; Louisa So praises it is a good series

TVB broadcasts the series, Phoenix Rising (蘭花刼) filmed 10 years ago  and the cast team member include Louisa So (蘇玉華), Sunny Chan (陳錦鴻), Ben Wong (黃智賢), Jack Wu (胡諾言) and others. When mentioned about the poor rating record during an event on 07 June, Louisa says: "The series is filmed 10 years ago and the view is not as clear as now. Everyone gives our full efforts and the script is not bad. Perhaps it is related to technology problem? I don't care anyway."

Sunny is not disappointed about the ratings record and says: "I feel happy that it is airing now and the artiste wish to have more audiences seeing their masterpiece other than getting paid. It is still better when compared to nobody watching it."

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Kristal Tin wins the Best Frozen Age Actress Contest

TVB broadcasts the series, Phoenix Rising (蘭花劫) at golden prime time slot and the audiences compare the acting skills of the female main leads such as Kristal Tin (田蕊妮), Nancy Wu (胡定欣), Louisa So (蘇玉華) and Leila Tong (唐寧). TVB creates the contest, the Best Frozen Age Actress (最凍齡女藝人選舉) on their website and the nomination includes Kristal Tin, Nancy Wu, Louisa So, Leila Tong and Celine Ma (馬蹄露). Kristal emerges as the champion, follow by Leila, Louisa, Nancy and Celine.

Other than that, the male leads in the series are quite powerful as Sunny Chan (陳錦鴻), Ben Wong (黃智賢) and Jack Wu (胡諾言) maintain themselves well too. What do you think?

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Kristal Tin's old drama is airing again? She feels fortunate she does not go under the knife before

TVB will be airing Phoenix Rising (蘭花劫) series on 29th May after My Unfair Lady (不懂撒嬌的女人) series, Phoenix Rising series was a production in 2007 and it starred Louisa So (蘇玉華), Kristal Tin (田蕊妮), Leila Tong (唐寧), Nancy Wu (胡定欣), Sunny Chan (陳錦鴻), Ben Wong (黃智賢), Jack Wu (胡諾言) and others. It received satisfactory reviews in overseas market and the location shooting took place in the first prison in Hong Kong.

As one of the leads, Kristal accepts a telephone interview from Ming Pao (明報) on 05 May and expresses she will be watching the series to review her acting skills 10 years ago, Asking if she is worried about comparing her image, Kristal says: "Perhaps some improvements in applying make-up and more skinny. Fortunately, I do not have plastic surgery before. Catherine Tsang (曾勵珍) has watch it once and praise we belong to "frozen age" category. (Afraid about comparing your acting skills?) Improving or declining? I wish to see my performance and really cannot recall anything."

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Ben Wong dares not urge Elena Kong to get married after one word from her

Ben Wong (黃智賢) and Elena Kong (江美儀) promoted Tiger Mom Blues (親親我好媽) series on 10 February. Ben admitted his worry for filming with children and sought advice from his family as he had no children now. Elena said: "I teach the children as if teaching my dog."

When asked if she had confidence that the series will achieve rating record at 30 pts as the highest ratings was at 28 pts on last Tuesday, Elena dared not dream of it and replied with Ben that having good reviews were already sufficient, as they worried they might not act very well.

When Ben urged Elena to get married quickly, Elena said: "I cannot have baby even marry now and my doctor said my menstruation will stop in next 2 years. What about you?" Ben said: "I am finishing my work and my career is my top priority now."

Source: Ming Pao (HK)
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Sharon Chan's baby son gains 10 pounds in weight; She admits she suffers from memory loss

Sharon Chan (陳敏之), Ben Wong (黃智賢), Elena Kong (江美儀), Michelle Yim (米雪) and others were promoting Tiger Mom Blues (親親我好媽) series and it is Sharon's first time to attend an event after giving birth. On 23 January, Sharon shared photo of her 1 year old baby and expressed that it was taken a few days ago and they cut cake together as a celebration.

Sharon disclosed it was hard taking care of the baby but it was worth it: "There is many stuff to learn and it is hard to understand their temper. My baby gains 10 pounds in weight and his double chin has appeared. He is considered big size but not fat." She was currently breastfeeding her son and it could make him healthy but she suffered from memory loss and forgot to bring things out frequently after giving birth.

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Ben Wong praises Grace Chan is professional and prepares her homework well

Actor Ben Wong (黃智賢) was filming TVB series, Wulin Revival (翻生武林) at TVB City and when mentioned about his filming partner, Grace Chan (陳凱琳) rejected to reply related to her boyfriend, Kevin Cheng's (鄭嘉穎) departure issue earlier, he did not feel Grace was affected by it: "Grace is a professional actress who prepares her homework well. Please ask her directly if you have any questions. (Try to persuade Kevin to stay?) I can only persuade him to stay in the football team." Ben added he had several action scenes in new series: "Some scenes were delayed as it was raining previously and it is a headache to film producer. (Any pressure as A Fist within Four Walls (城寨英雄) receives high ratings?) I did watch it and it is exciting. They fight based on fist while we concentrate on weapons, so it is different."

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Ben Wong wears thick costume to film ancient series under humid weather

Actor Ben Wong (黃智賢) was dressed in ancient costume for TVB new series, Wulin Revival (翻生武林) and expressed it was a fun series but the biggest enemy was the weather, as he needed to wear thick clothing under the humid weather. Ben disclosed he needed to drink water and rest during filming and some staff were dehydrated earlier.

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