The cars that celebrities drive

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Mon, 27 Sep 2021 09:06:44 GMT

Zeal mummy — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 09:06:44 GMT

Cars are for practical reasons, to get to point to point.

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:17:22 GMT

phtthp — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:17:22 GMT

janet88:
Even when artistes do ads, they are not given 50% of the total amount...their management company ie mediacorp will get much more. I don't see many artistes advertising now...around CNY, Christopher lee was advertising for bee cheng hiang, then husband-wife for that condo in Malaysia. I really wonder how celebrities survive when they are not so popular.

When they grow old, lost popularity, some of them are realistic with life, drive taxi, like what the ex husband of the TV host Quan Yifeng did (Peter Yu)
http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/m ... r-20141130

or halfway through, some of them left acting, to join other career like private banking, etc, like what the husband of one of the newscasters did. (James Lye)

Some artistes in Hongkong like Chow Yun Fatt : practical.
Although he is very very rich, but he told Chinese newspapers that he prefer to be a commoner, take public transport bus.
So is a myth that artistes must always zip around in expensive, luxurious cars.

Now, Christopher Lee & Fann Wong are still sought after, by minced pork advertisement, etc. They too will grow old, when their son grow up. Christopher has some wrinkle appearing at the corner of his eyes

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Mon, 30 Mar 2015 04:13:18 GMT

atrecord — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 04:13:18 GMT

janet88:
Even when artistes do ads, they are not given 50% of the total amount...their management company ie mediacorp will get much more. I don't see many artistes advertising now...around CNY, Christopher lee was advertising for bee cheng hiang, then husband-wife for that condo in Malaysia. I really wonder how celebrities survive when they are not so popular.

Like i said, they should plan for it way beforehand. Then when they get little or no more rich contracts, can depend on the 'long-amassed' fortune to see them through.

If they spend every single cent as it (the $$) comes in, then it will be a recipe for disaster later.

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Mon, 30 Mar 2015 03:42:47 GMT

janet88 — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 03:42:47 GMT

Even when artistes do ads, they are not given 50% of the total amount…their management company ie mediacorp will get much more. I don’t see many artistes advertising now…around CNY, Christopher lee was advertising for bee cheng hiang, then husband-wife for that condo in Malaysia. I really wonder how celebrities survive when they are not so popular.

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Mon, 30 Mar 2015 03:24:08 GMT

atrecord — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 03:24:08 GMT

janet88:
atrecord:

But i'm also curious where does mediacorp get the $$ to pay the artists that much. And do they deserve it...
artistes are paid little...just like salesmen. they get more when they do advertisements or ambassadors for brands. chew chor meng used to be army bunk mate with hubby. but I wonder how some artistes continue to drive big cars when they are no longer popular.

Arrhh… yes, the endorsements. There will be obscene money being paid to do endorsements, resulting in sudden windfall. If the artistes are smart, they will keep and invest these money wisely instead of spending them away -- and regret when that stream dries up.

The same goes for the filthy rich sportsmen. Soccer players are paid millions of dollars in the rich leagues, like Spain, German, England. The richest ones get maybe $1m per fortnight…

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Sat, 28 Mar 2015 01:40:22 GMT

janet88 — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 01:40:22 GMT

atrecord:

But i'm also curious where does mediacorp get the $$ to pay the artists that much. And do they deserve it...

artistes are paid little...just like salesmen. they get more when they do advertisements or ambassadors for brands. chew chor meng used to be army bunk mate with hubby. but I wonder how some artistes continue to drive big cars when they are no longer popular.

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:20:37 GMT

Blessedwife — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:20:37 GMT

floppy:
You miss out Batman. He drives a one-of-a-kind batmobile.

And last I recall, Wonder Woman is flying an invisible airplane.

Honestly, does it really matter what other people, even celebrities, drive?

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Good one

I was also thinking what has it got to do with us what kind of cars celebrities drive ?

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:27:06 GMT

floppy — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:27:06 GMT

You miss out Batman. He drives a one-of-a-kind batmobile.

And last I recall, Wonder Woman is flying an invisible airplane.

Honestly, does it really matter what other people, even celebrities, drive?

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:44:06 GMT

janet88 — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:44:06 GMT

SAHM2KIDS:
jtoh:
Who's vong mei ling?

http://www.zhwsmj.cn/content.asp?id=1293

I didn't know that happened to her....only knew she committed suicide by gassing herself...thought it was because her then boyfriend kent tong had another girlfriend. Yung Mei Ling was a beauty back then. The triads in HK cannot be messed with. Just look at what happened to carina lau.

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Thu, 21 Nov 2013 01:14:59 GMT

atrecord — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 01:14:59 GMT

Sports doesn’t pay that well in Singapore, as it doesn’t make big money given Singapore’s size.

Take a soccer player for e.g. The best in Singapore would prob earn maybe around $10K or $15K per month. There will not be a lot more in terms of endorsement $$, as their image doesn’t count for much.

The better soccer players in English Premier League earn about $1.2M per month. The best-paid soccer players in the world would earn as much as double that figure.

They are able to pay that kind of money as the large population there watches soccer as a passion, hobby, and do not mind paying $200 per ticket to watch a match. Plus the way those marketing people hype up the sports and the players, they become household names worldwide, and has image appeals and sponsorships/endorsements/broadcasting money keep rolling in.

Local sports cannot even smell them, much less try to compete.

But i’m also curious where does mediacorp get the $$ to pay the artists that much. And do they deserve it…

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:54:49 GMT

isetan — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:54:49 GMT

Agree!!

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:20:12 GMT

ngl2010 — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:20:12 GMT

It looks like becoming a celebrity in Singapore pays better than sportsman. So, it’s better to learn acting in SOTA than enrol in Sports School?

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:29:00 GMT

kiaaik — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:29:00 GMT

Canvas:
kiaaik:
[quote=\"LOLMum\"]then pray hard that none here are involved in such activities. :evil:

A stars like 杨千桦，liza wong, sammi cheng etc are a few examples. humble background, done well, 星味十足。

kept woman, sell favours, them, i doubt so.

but am surprised anita yuen was very frank in an interview that she was once a kept woman (林建岳）。
anita yuen is only tip of the iceberg....there are many of them like her...
she was able to keep it under wraps for so many years despite the famous gou zai dui of hk...

do you know lydia sum ordered the gang-raped of vong mei ling after vong had big mouthed about adam cheng (lydia's husband then) having sex with underaged girls...this led to vong's suicide...this was revealed by a prisoner (one of the rapists) on death row to a christian worker..
lydia's god-brother's alan tang (former movie producer and actor) is a high-ranking person in the 14K triad
when the news of adam cheng's 'adventures' leaked, alan tang had used his influence to stop the newspapers and magazines from reporting the matter...vong was staying in the same apartment/estate with them, and as she was innocent, she started to tell other people about it....and lydia wanted to teach her a lesson...

Goodness. Never heard of this. Always thought as a kid that she killed herself because of love. Maybe that is why people say that the showbiz is not for everyone. Survival skills is one, the ability to climb ladders and make use of ties are others.[/quote]this news was out about 2 years ago only....

today Straits Times has news of Albert Yeung, the god-brother of Jackie Chan and a ruthless triad boss who had ordered the beating up of many celebrities...whoever crosses his path....one of those who was beaten up was eric tsang....

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Movie sparked divorce
Published on Mar 26, 2012

Hong Kong - A randy producer's wife divorces him after attending a movie premiere with him and finding out that the film brings up his fling with an actress.

This is a true story shared by the male protagonist, entertainment billionaire Albert Yeung, 68, in an interview with Ming Pao Weekly published last Saturday.

He said he met the actress, whom he did not name, at a party in the 1970s and they had a tryst in a villa in Kowloon Tong. But his wife got wind of it and went there with her sister.

He said he managed to escape, and happened to meet a good friend, who agreed to be the scapegoat.

Yeung arrived home and acted drunk. To boost his case, he paid off a security guard to keep quiet and misled his domestic helper, who became his alibi.

His wife did not believe him but she had no evidence, and he seemed to have got away with it, he told the weekly. Still, she was so mad at him that she left for America.

It was then that he made the mistake of sharing the story with his friend, actor Philip Chan, for a laugh.

Months later, it became part of a movie, The Extras (1978), directed by Yim Ho and written by Chan. Kenneth Tsang played a character based on Yeung, and Idy Chan a character based on his wife.

Yeung said he did not know the movie would mention him, and took his wife to the premiere, after he persuaded her to return to Hong Kong.

She felt furious and humiliated by the movie, and later divorced him.

Yeung, who has since remarried, still has a girlfriend, he admitted to Ming Pao. But he has learnt to be more careful, he said.

Yeung, the boss of entertainers such as Nicholas Tse and Joey Yung, is publishing a biography this month.

During the interview, Yeung also addressed rumours that he paid off beauty queen Elaine Ng with HK$30 million, when the scandal of her affair with his close friend Jackie Chan broke in the 1990s.

Yeung said he had planned to buy Ng's silence, but Chan decided to admit to the public that he had made a mistake.

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:13:44 GMT

SAHM2KIDS — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:13:44 GMT

jtoh:
Who's vong mei ling?

http://www.zhwsmj.cn/content.asp?id=1293

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:01:27 GMT

Canvas — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:01:27 GMT

kiaaik:
LOLMum:
then pray hard that none here are involved in such activities. :evil:

A stars like 杨千桦，liza wong, sammi cheng etc are a few examples. humble background, done well, 星味十足。

kept woman, sell favours, them, i doubt so.

but am surprised anita yuen was very frank in an interview that she was once a kept woman (林建岳）。
anita yuen is only tip of the iceberg....there are many of them like her...
she was able to keep it under wraps for so many years despite the famous gou zai dui of hk...

do you know lydia sum ordered the gang-raped of vong mei ling after vong had big mouthed about adam cheng (lydia's husband then) having sex with underaged girls...this led to vong's suicide...this was revealed by a prisoner (one of the rapists) on death row to a christian worker..
lydia's god-brother's alan tang (former movie producer and actor) is a high-ranking person in the 14K triad
when the news of adam cheng's 'adventures' leaked, alan tang had used his influence to stop the newspapers and magazines from reporting the matter...vong was staying in the same apartment/estate with them, and as she was innocent, she started to tell other people about it....and lydia wanted to teach her a lesson...

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:57:44 GMT

jtoh — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:57:44 GMT

Who’s vong mei ling?

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:12:14 GMT

kiaaik — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:12:14 GMT

LOLMum:
then pray hard that none here are involved in such activities. :evil:

A stars like 杨千桦，liza wong, sammi cheng etc are a few examples. humble background, done well, 星味十足。

kept woman, sell favours, them, i doubt so.

but am surprised anita yuen was very frank in an interview that she was once a kept woman (林建岳）。

anita yuen is only tip of the iceberg....there are many of them like her...
she was able to keep it under wraps for so many years despite the famous gou zai dui of hk...

do you know lydia sum ordered the gang-raped of vong mei ling after vong had big mouthed about adam cheng (lydia's husband then) having sex with underaged girls...this led to vong's suicide...this was revealed by a prisoner (one of the rapists) on death row to a christian worker..
lydia's god-brother's alan tang (former movie producer and actor) is a high-ranking person in the 14K triad
when the news of adam cheng's 'adventures' leaked, alan tang had used his influence to stop the newspapers and magazines from reporting the matter...vong was staying in the same apartment/estate with them, and as she was innocent, she started to tell other people about it....and lydia wanted to teach her a lesson...

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:50:57 GMT

LOLMum — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:50:57 GMT

Once they, be it celebrity, politican etc ,step in front of that camera, that mike, everything is artificially enhanced.

There is a need to draw a line to separate them from ordinary folks. A great way to market themselves and get top billing.

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:33:04 GMT

pinky — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:33:04 GMT

LOLMum:
even the young ones also very hard.

must learn from hong kong, korea and japan celebrities. these are the ones who know how to maintain the glam image.

the package is live in upper middle class (the very least) area, drive expensive cars, dress appropriately and make up on all times, dont talk in front of the camera like ah lian ah hua.

the image a celebrity must give is not just a glam one but also a lifestyle that is 90% different from the ordinary folks. thats why they are call a star......

:offtopic:

the glam image are artificially enhanced ones... :evil:

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:24:36 GMT

LOLMum — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:24:36 GMT

then pray hard that none here are involved in such activities. :evil:

A stars like 杨千桦，liza wong, sammi cheng etc are a few examples. humble background, done well, 星味十足。

kept woman, sell favours, them, i doubt so.

but am surprised anita yuen was very frank in an interview that she was once a kept woman (林建岳）。

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:21:34 GMT

kiaaik — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:21:34 GMT

LOLMum:
phtthp:
age will catch up with them eventually.

then their income dip, because new youngsters fresh pretty faces replace them one day. How to forever maintain expensive, flashy cars lifestyle ? one fine day, change from dining in expensive restaurant to coffee shop.
now most celebrities are smart, they are able to invest their money wisely. even for jacky cheung, though he lost a lot of money (bad investment in high notes, etc), he can still come out of semi retirement to make moer money.

andy lau (lost lots of money with his production company) still living a good life. carina lau/tony leung, daniel wu, nicholas tse etc. from nobody (poor, middle income families) to somebody. tat kinda of celebrity aura is not something our local can easily achiivve even for fann and zoe (sorri, but a long long way to catch up and they are about the same age and similar amount of years in the industry).

:offtopic:

if you have stayed in hk before, u will know that many celebrities sell their bodies for fame and money...many producers are triads...actresses who refused to act in Category III movies are gang-raped...full of sex scandals..
i rather our celebrities do not follow them

check this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJq1owZGj0M

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:16:18 GMT

Imami — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:16:18 GMT

kiaaik:

desmond koh & quan yi feng both drive lexus rx

Kym ng drives a Saab conertible
.

You sure quan drives at all?? If yes, why is she always heard by driven by her friends? And always rubbing the cab drivers on the wrong side?

Also kym may have changed her set of wheels. I saw her on a few occasions, driving a very nice white Porsche, out of hdb hub car park within the last six months.

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:54:27 GMT

janet88 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:54:27 GMT

Celebrities constantly have to keep up their appearance. Posh cars, condos/landed…they need to invest in businesses to survive tough times. Unless hubby is high flyer or have wealthy parents.

Reply to The cars that celebrities drive on Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:02:45 GMT

Joule — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:02:45 GMT

That’s why Zoe is zoe smart, married a high flying (literally) fighter pilot and now can sit back and relax.

By the way, rumour has it that they promoted him to full colonel so that he looks better when getting married. not bad hor?