Gigi Lai Hosts New Year’s Eve Party
Former actress, Gigi Lai (黎姿), has managed to slimmed down in time for the New Year. After giving birth to her third daughter, Pegella, in October 2012, the 41-year-old avoided the headlines and stayed at home to nurture her daughters.
On December 31, a much svelter Gigi and her family hosted a glamorous New Year’s Eve party at Sevva, a large restaurant located inside the Prince’s Building in Central. Gigi’s evening gown, including her jewelry accessories, cost over $1 million HKD. When asked whether or not she would try for a son in the coming year, Gigi just smiled and kept her head down.
Gigi’s New Year’s Eve party began around 7 PM. Her husband, Patrick Ma (馬廷強) was the first to arrive. Gigi’s parents arrived quickly afterwards. Gigi’s handicapped younger brother, Stephen Lai (黎嬰), arrived at the restaurant in a wheelchair with his girlfriend. When the reporters wished him a Happy New Year, Stephen smiled and clutched his girlfriend’s hand tightly.
In May 2007, Stephen became seriously wounded in a near-fatal traffic accident when a taxi he was riding on collided with another. Stephen was thrown out of his taxi and suffered severe blows on his head and back. Gigi took a break from her acting career from 2007 to 2008 to focus on caring her brother and his beauty clinic.
Gigi forked out almost her entire savings to pay for Stephen’s medical bills. His condition improved immensely after going through three major brain surgeries.
Christine Ng (伍詠薇) and her husband, Kasey Lin (練海棠), were also invited to the party. Christine revealed that Gigi was her matchmaker and said, “It was Gigi who introduced my husband to me. She plays a very important role in our lives. We haven’t had the chance to spend time with each other much after we started our own families. We only have time to gather together on these special occasions.”
For her New Year’s wish, Christine expressed that she hopes to be able to spend less time filming and more time working on her beauty company. “But most importantly, I wish for everyone to be happy and have good health.”
When asked if she hopes her good friend, Sharon Chan (陳敏之), would be able to marry soon, Christine laughed, “She already has a stable boyfriend. He is a great man. I’m not worried for her!”
Source: ihktv.com
This article is written by Addy for JayneStars.com.
awww nice to see Gigi still keeping in touch with various TVB artists. i miss seeing her on the tv screen but am happy to see her happily married with three daughters. 🙂 she looks absolutely beautiful in the picture! 🙂
Wow. Gigi is just so gorgeous & Christine is looking really good for their age! Pretty babes!!!
Miss seeing Gigi as well as she was always one of my favourite TVB actresses. She still looks beautiful as ever!
when i first saw the photo with her husband i though that was her father.lol..maybe money really can buy love.
Or perhaps they’re not really in love and Gigi happens to have found someone who is able to care and provide for her which in return she is able to reciprocate it as well.
Love is not always present in relationships or even marriage in many cases. That is why sometimes your husband may not be your soulmate.
I have seen married couples who are happy for decades and even they have admitted to one another that they don’t have that kind of love for each other. But why do they work even without that main source of love? Honesty, trust, respect, more than anything acceptance for one another and many other factors contribute to happy and successful marriages and family makings.
I agree with you Raina. It’s those inexperienced and ignorant who think all relationships are all that simple with just love.
And that love comes in all form.
i think she is grateful to him and she respects him but is she in love with him? only she knows.
LOVE is so overrated. people marry for love and get divorce, so in the end, you get a few years of good life and then a very stressful period. And then you’re back to being lonely.
A union between two people doesn’t necessarily have to stem from love because love dies.
Of course love is NOT the one and only thing in a marriage or relationship, however, I feel that it is one of the most important things to a happy marriage. It is true that many couples last and look happy even though they don’t love each other,however, to truly have a happy marriage inside out, I feel love needs to be one of the elements…
love doesn’t last. Later on in marriage, respect and commitment replace love.
We think that Gigi Married her husband because he had the wealth to provide the care needed for her brother.
She is a very good sister, giving up show business to help him and his clinic.
I heard TVB doesn’t pay actors very well, I don’t think Gigi could have helped her brother get the best care if she had stayed an actress.
I wonder how her brother is doing though, is his gf with him because she has been through it all with him or is it because of his connection to gigi?
I wonder the same about her brother’s girlfriend and if she is staying with him due to his connection to Gigi and her husband. If her brother is disabled for life, I really wonder if she would stay with him?? However, if he gets taken care of well by Gigi and her husband then maybe she will since she will not have to do much.
I think she loved him, even if he looks old enough to be her father. I think sometimes love isn’t defined by passion or compatibility in looks but perhaps in her case love is his ability to give her the security, the protection and a nurturing nature that she yearns. In the end maybe she just wants a father figure and yes he is rich. I am sure rich is the predominant factor since she wants to be taken care of but I won’t dismiss her as a gold digger. I think deep down there is mutual love and respect even if we may often ask why a troll like him ends up with a beauty like her.
I think Gigi does love her husband, but it is probably not the typical passionate type of love that we always imagine with 2 people falling romantically in love with each other. However, it is probably the companionship type of love… But hey, only she would know if she truly loves him or not…
agree. Not in love type. But respect him and grateful to him. Gold digger or not only she knows.
Her husband is one old fart! Wonder why Gigi married him.
How does celebrities look so young beside Botox?? What skin care brand do they use? I know Shiseido is good, what else!?
There’s cosmetic procedures like animal placenta injection.
Simon Cowell does that.
I did some more research on cosmetic procedures available to help people stay young. I found out that besides animal placenta injection, you can also do human placenta injection, a cosmetic procedure that Faye Wong has been using over the years.
I am selling a skincare products which is much more better than other big names; our skincare is using human stem cell makes a person look younger by 20 years that’s what most of the celebrities are using them.
Don’t believe a word of it.
If you have money of coz is possible Djojs…
SK-II? La Mer? Lancome seems pretty popular as well, but I’m not a fan. But yeah, celebrities are so loaded that they probably go for cosmetic procedures for quick results.
SK II very expensive but many say it works. Skin tightening? Botox? Make up? Exercise? Or simply, being happy?
For faster results they just simply go for adult stem cells injections. .
A part of it is genetics too…
Lamer eye serum does work, besides her bro is in the skin industry….
Botox only temporarily freezes that particular muscle part. It’s not actually age defying.
They probably go out and do a lot of facials to tighten their skin and improve their complexion. There’s a lot of different treatments that can also include chemical peels, laser, etc…
I think the best way to keep young is the happiness you feel within.Happy with yourself and with life !People are always shock when they know my age, i don’t use expensive products, love junk food but do love eating sushi which I think helps.
Well come on. Besides being rich, I believe this man must have showered Gigi with lotsa love & respect. She had provided the support for her brother & I’m sure her husband was behind her all these while. Not many man can allow your wife to go to an extreme extend to help your siblings. You may deny but that’s the fact no matter how perfect man your hubby is. This man must have a lot to provide for Gigi, it’s not about money only. Why are ppl so subjective nowadays & judging someone based on the appearance? Funny how ppl think!
Well her husband is hecka old. He’s 55 or 56 years old. He looks like her uncle. Not sure why celebrities like old rich men. Is it all about the money? Looks don’t matter then
She’s 41 so it is a difference of 15 years which isn’t much. I read of 20 dating 35, same difference in age.
hawick and yang mi has a 12 year difference. No one complains because both LOOK GOOD. and that pedophile Jay Lou
agree
Gigi looks great! Also, it’s good to hear that her brother is now doing well.
I missed her auntie Lai Suen acting. She did great in Kindred Spirit (ah ka). Sheed a very funny little lady. She should received an TVB award.
which character did she play?
I’m happy to read Gigi’s news. Gigi is such a good and supportive daughter and sister!!
Yeah, great to see her in good spirit for new year 2013 🙂
I bet you Gigi was very lost, scared and worried when the tragedy happened to her brother. She admitted in one of her interview that Patrick Ma was there for her the entire time to lean her a shoulder and to help her in every way possible. She was very touch by it…maybe she find him attractive due to his success and how he shower her with love, kindness and respect and of course lots of presents. Love only grows from there on…Gigi looks happy, she have a family of her own, it’s something to be proud of plus her parents and brother are all being taken care of no worries. Isn’t thats what it matters?
very well said 🙂
agree. there is more to a person aside appearance (though even i do look at appearance first).
but this guy must have something extra. perhaps very attentive, understanding. and to be a succesful rich guy, i assume he is witty and knows when to catch opportunities.
with her package, she could have married to other better looking or younger wealthy guy.
i hope she will have a healthy baby boy soon. even if the husband adores her, she may feel pressure in general.
a women who sacrifice her love life for her family is very touching.her husband really knows when to take the chance huh. but isnt it is a little bit low to pursue someone on this way? i think if the tragedy with her brother didnt take place,she had never marry to him.
So, what is not low?
Is it better for the guy who has the ability to help and support stand around and let the woman he loves face her difficult problem herself and only start courting her when she’s through with her difficulties? That should be more genuine and honorable and not low?
I bet if a handsome and young guy did what Patrick Ma did for Gigi, you will exclaim ‘How sweet, how much he loves her!’.
I guess in your mind, love can only exist between people of equal age and equal beauty.
From what I heard, he dated her for like 7 years beforehand too so it’s not like she agreed to marry him due to her brother’s accident only.. But honestly, no one knows for sure if she loves him or not, she is the only one that would know that…
I heard that he once said “stop working, I will take care of you for life”. Heard that Gigi was soooo touched by that and many of the things that he did for her and her family so she agreed to marry him. She even mentioned how he not only loves her but her family as well(which shows since he helped to pay for her brother’s medical bills) and that is really rare for any girl or guy to find someone that no only loves them but their family as well. I think he has many great traits that attracted her as well besides just money.
probably, since when she was younger i think she has been dating ugly n older men too so at that stage of her life, she probably needs $$$ more than anything. i mean, shes NOT exactly that rich acting for TVB right? this rich dude came along, i guess they dont really care just go for it for the security. but isnt the guy handicapped as well? n he looks so old too…
Well written Rei!!
gigi lai seem to have all the best…money, beauty, children, happiness and business… so blessed is she indeed..
Nice said Pepe69, but Gigi worked very hard to take care of her family when she was very young.
True but she can now enjoy her life while there are others that have to work hard their entire life in order to take care of others… I guess it is just fate and some are luckier than others…
I wonder who performed the brain surgeries.
Happy for Gigi…I am not her fans…but I respect her that she takes care of her family…I don’t care if she marry her husband because of love or wealth or mix of both…as long as she don’t hurt others feeling…as long as she still be a good wife and mother…it seems that she is as far…she gave birth twice (for three children) for her husband…and she took care her husband!
You’re not her fan (not fans). How many of your personalities aren’t a supporter of her?
This is certainly a great act of love from a sister to her brother and a man to his wife & her family. His generosity would have won her heart.
She’s one of the most beautiful HK actresses!
Christine Ng is worse than Gigi if you are taking about been a gold digger.
They both get what they want, GiGi maybe wanted security and her husband a good looking wife ! I think they both have respect for each other and I think GiGi is a kind and caring individual,nothing wrong with wanting more in life as long as it’s not only material goods that rules your life.