Eliza Sam is a Frugal Goddess
Eliza Sam (岑麗香) may have received an influx of jobs and earnings with her rising popularity, but she remains a frugal goddess in order reach her property ownership dreams.
In the short time span of three years, Eliza’s stardom rose incredibly, already ascending to leading status by starring opposite Bosco Wong (黃宗澤) in Mr. and Mrs. Bean <貓屎媽媽>. She is often compared to Christine Kuo (苟芸慧) due to both beauty queens’ upbringing in Canada. With Christine’s recent weight gain, TVB producers and advertisers reportedly dropped Christine from their radar and gave more work to Eliza instead.
Earlier, it was reported that Eliza has relied on extreme means to save up for buy a home to live with her family. To reduce daily spending, Eliza admitted to eating the food props left over on set. Besides going to work, Eliza rarely goes out, but when she does – she often carpools with friends to save money. She has even slept overnight at the studios to avoid transportation fees going back home. Although reported to spend only $50 HKD per daily, Eliza said it was impossible to keep the costs so low.
As well, most of her clothes and accessories were sponsored by companies, effectively reducing her need to go shopping. When asked about her frugality, Eliza humbly replied, “One of my goals is to save up to buy an apartment, I want the house to be at least 1,000 to 2,000 square feet. It’s because my parents are used to living in a big place outside of Hong Kong, so I want them to live comfortably. But unfortunately, I don’t even have the down payment yet.”
Eliza also admitted that her only form of entertainment is watching movies, otherwise she prefers to not spend money on miscellaneous items.
With her outgoing personality, Eliza is also highly popular among male colleagues. She was previously linked to The Voice <超級巨聲> star, Penny Chan (陳國峰), although she continuously denied the dating rumors and clarified that they only shared a taxi to save money. Then while filming Sniper Standoff <神鎗狙擊>, she was rumored with Alan Wan (溫家偉) and Steven Cheung (張致恒). Throughout this, Eliza insisted that she has no pursuers and that her only goal is to concentrate on work. The goddess also stated that she prefers men with a good heart and stressed that personality is more important than looks.
Source: 3 Weekly via ihktv.com
This article is written by Su for JayneStars.com.
Good to hear that Eliza Sam leads a very simple life in Hong Kong. She works hard and saves hard. She earns her money through work, not through the publicity due to numerous rumours/scandals.
AGREED!
And I love her in Sniper Attack!
”Sadly, Eliza has only got that cheeky smile and is becoming so boring and annoying, could be the Plastic Skin taking its toll? Sexy and Eliza just don’t mix”
DISAGREED!
And I totally dislike her in Sniper Attack!
Mechanical, robotic, stiff, fake, put on, poor acting ability. Nothing is good about her. She got absolutely NO talent.
Her only talent? Smile and electrified all those guys out there silly, who all rush and trip over her, all are after her body, yes, yes, you see her in Sniper wearing that tight T’s and she got a handful, my my, hahahaha.
So, it means, sex sells, and TVB notices, so promote her. What’s the difference between her and those naive leng mo?
Actually none, zip!, just another dumb ‘blonde’
I feel she is not cut out for the role.
She looks more like an office lady.
@Down and out: I agree with you sooooo much! hahahahahaha
Also I think Eliza’s acting kinda reminds me of an ex-TVB actress who was also a misshk contestant Cerina da Graca (嘉碧儀) She was also very robotic and unnatural when delivering her lines in the drama 金牌冰人. But I find her cuter and more attractive than Eliza.
she does act like a robot.i dont like her in sniper either.pity she seems a sweet girl off screen.
haha,you are just jealous of her beauty.
If this is true, then I definitely admire her attitude. Hope she gets an apartment soon!
I agree that if this is true, I admire her hard work and sacrifices. At least she is trying to hard to save and make her own money in order to buy her own place instead of thinking that she can hitch a rich/well off guy that will provide all that for her.
how do you know she is not thinking about hitch a rich guy? you can read her mind?
Of course I do not know that for sure. Even her own parents would not know that so how can I know?? BUT, as of now, at least she is trying to work hard and trying to buy her own house with her own money. As for the future, who really knows???
Eliza does not seem to make a lot unnecessary publicity. She earns her popularity in a genuine route.
I also like her more. A sweet, sincere and down-to-earth girl.
totaly agrree with you she is the future nr1 fadan of tvb
I’ve just realized that the celebrity’ image is mostly dependent on how the media put them in. Eliza, Linda and some of the self-claimed virgin girls always receive positive feedback while sexy girl like Kate with the same situation would get nasty comments.
Life is always tough, and it is even tougher for celebrities unfortunately.
Yea, life is tough and some have it harder than others but life is unfair. Life in the circle is hard but of course easier for some than others.
Eliza is heavily promoted by the media, that’s why she is ‘popular’
I am smarter, i am not influenced by the media, so I see through her lack of talent and devoid of ability and complete hollowness.
How is she fake? Sure she may not be a great actress. But who are you to call her fake? On what basis?
I dont think Eliza self advertised that she is a virgin.
I thought only Grace Wong, Leann and Linda Chung did
She is alright in acting, not too much faking.
Eliza is stuck at sweet, cute and type of bubble girl. But I think she can do better than that. She has the potential, much more potential than her previous models such as Linda. But too fast promotion can bite her if she has a mistake. Watever, I like Eliza
It seems like she’s just playing herself as the sweet, bubbly type. So when given a new role, like in Sniper, it shows how raw her acting is. Eliza has that sweet look. Maybe she should change her image according to the role for it to be convincing.
Eliza has that charismatic I started to like her more after this report she seems like a hard working, independent and not a spendrified person.
Smart girl.With this report,she’s on the radar of the tai tai’s.That’s what I called good acting
I like her role in Sniper but have to admit her acting was so-so & a bit raw. Given time, I bet she will improve.
Wonder if the food props taste ok lol
Are there columns written about saving money in HK or is it too close to the bone for too many HKers?
HKD50 per day? Impossible.
i think its possible if she have discount for meals in tvb canteen,and driven to home by colleagues.
she is not a goddess
That’s really thrifty! I have to give her credit for being frugal. I wish I can be like that!
50hk$ a day prolly skipping 2 meals daily mann!
That’s how she stay skinny :p
She isn’t so pretty as compare to others but I admire her for not having PS so far……
I think she is cute and pretty without any PS. I hope that she does not get any down the line and mess up her original looks.
who are the others?
Actually if you read the original article, it states that Eliza Sam didn’t admit or deny this rumour of her spending $50 HKD and she knows that it’s impossible to spend that little =_= She also describes how she spends her daily expenses and whatnot in detail (this translated article left that part out, just mainly summarized the article)
It is always better to read the original articles since things are always lost in translation. I had a feeling that she cannot only spend $50HK a day because that is way too little, especially in an expensive place like HK. How is that even possible???
A frugal attitude is definitely refreshing though I question how healthy it is to eat leftover prop food.
I think Eliza Sam has the potentials to be a good actress, but her role in “Sniper Standoff” was a bit too heavy for her. Her acting was quite raw in it.
i think by doing heavy roles she can improve faster than easy kelefe roles.its just good for her.
I don’t agree. First, Eliza Sam is not trained as an actress. She needs to build up her acting skills through experience. If she cannot handle a heavy character, she will get tons of criticisms from the audience. As a result, people will dislike her more.
there are always ppl who will like and dislikes no mather your performance are good or bad.tons of criticism is just only good for her(if she can turn it in a good way at least),because you can learn from it.you have to see it as a learn process,even the legendary leslie cheung have got in the beginning of his career tons of criticism.
not a hardcore fan of her acting yet but i really like her! she’s so cute and humble and down to earth. i’m sure she has many pursuers but is too modest to brag about it. i didn’t watch sniper attack so no comment on her performance in it but she was really charming in divas in distress, despite her raw acting.
Eliza has amazing eyes and boobs!!! Good for her to have a hourglass body:))
This isn’t frugal, it’s downright cheap.
How do you define being frugal versus being cheap? I guess frugal sounds more positive while cheap sounds more negative.
What happened to her miss chinese international runner up Belle Theng?
NAAWW Love her even more@
I am watching her in Sniper Standoff – she’s got a good figure and a really cute and expressive face. I’ve decided that I will try to catch all of her future series lol
I didn’t know there were a group of TVB girls that were specifically “virgin girls”…I sort of thought all of them were expected to have that image (but not expectation…hey look at Wu Chun with 2 kids).