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Nick Cheung and Sonija Kwok were filming a wedding scene yesterday in Kowloon City for “Wandering Hero Medics” and Raymond Lam, Bosco Wong, Leila Tong, Sharon Chan and Selena Li were all present as witnesses for the event. As well as a group of extras, there was also a crowd of onlookers and some schoolchildren praised Sonija on her beauty in the wedding dress and asked to be photographed with her. Sonija complied and was very friendly to them.
TVB held a presentation party yesterday to showcase its preparations for the coverage of the four-yearly Olympic Games that will be held in Athens and begin on 13th August. 130 specially invited guests assembled to hear Sales and Marketing Director Leung Kin Wah explain that the games should bring the company an estimated $400 million in advertising revenue, but due to the sky high costs of broadcasting the event and the additional equipment required, they estimate that they will only just break even.
Coverage of the games will be hosted by Joe Ma, Myolie Wu, Vincent Kuk, Hon Yuk Man and Alex Fong (Lik San). Together with ‘Olympic Stars’ Raymond Lam, Sammul Chan, Kenneth Ma, Lai Lok Yi and Bosco Wong and the ‘Miss Hong Kong’ winners Mandy Cho and Rabee’a Priscilla Chik, they all made an appearance at the presentation. Mr Leung indicates that they started selling the event to the advertising sponsors in December and 60% of clients have now struck a deal with the remaining 40% becoming more active as the event draws near and will confirm in July or August. Although ATV will also be broadcasting from the Olympics, Mr Leung says that their target sponsorship is primarily from the mainland and so there is little conflict between the stations. He also indicates that during the Olympic broadcasts, they will not make the same mistakes as the HK Film Awards this year and cut the events to make way for the advertisements. This is because the events run to strict timing and are not as likely to overrun.
New head of the artiste department Lok Yik Ling has been the focus of the staffing moves and magazine reports have suggested that she favours Moses Chan and Kevin Cheng and is trying to topple the power of Louis Koo and Jessica Hsuan. To this, Ms Lok reponds: “Louis could not attend because he has work commitments. He has wanted to make a series all along and at the moment we are looking into this.” As for suggestions of promoting Kevin, Ms Lok says that the company wants to promote all of the people it signs, especially the male stars because they are more difficult to find. She gives the example of TVB’s most recently promoted male stars as they are all very good. She goes on to praise Bosco Wong who has become entangled in some negative press recently, saying he is a good man and has recently signed his life away to the company. After saying this, she dragged Bosco over and said to him: “Be good now! Don’t create so much news.” Bosco replied a little embarrassed: “I know, I should work hard to repay the company. Thank you Ms Lok.” He reveals that he has signed to TVB for eight years.
Bosco Wong’s former girlfriend has reported to the press about him ‘living off her’ in the past and her suspicions of him having an affair and using her emotions. Bosco was filming yesterday for “Wandering Hero Medics” and denied the allegations, saying: “I have dated her before and we split up because of problems in the relationship, but I have never borrowed money from her and moreover I have never had an affair.” After the reports have surfaced, Bosco’s image has been affected and he says: “The company has not reprimanded me and I don’t know if the stories will affect my public image, but I will prove myself to the audience through my hard work.” As for his good friends Ron Ng and Raymond Lam, they say that everyone has their own history and that they don’t have anything to say.