Linda Chung and Moses Chan Command Highest Show Fees Among TVB Artists
As 2013 is quickly coming to an end, over 200 artists were seen at the annual TVB Sales Presentation in promoting dramas for the upcoming year. During the program presentation, many actresses wore low-cut dresses in order to catch the eye of sponsors. And while it was revealed that many artists’ compensation for functions and events dropped, Linda Chung (鍾嘉欣) managed to surpass Myolie Wu (胡杏兒) in commercial value. Riding on the potential TV Queen momentum, Linda’s show price doubled from $60,000 HKD to $120,000 HKD.
Although TVB’s current favourits, Myolie and Kate Tsui (徐子珊) are right behind Linda in earnings, coming in at $100,000 HKD and $80,000 HKD per show respectively – the most notable actress they should look out for is Eliza Sam (岑麗香). In the short time span of three years, the goddess more than tripled her earnings, and is currently reaping in $70,000 HKD per job. Surprisingly, Christine Kuo (苟芸慧) did not even make the list, evidently having been affected by her recent overweight predicament.
Sire Ma (馬賽), who originally would have made the list, drastically received a drop in compensation due to her exposed lesbian scandal with Wang Ziqi (汪子琦). Along with Sire, many of TVB’s rumor magnets and actresses who mostly rely on sex appeal, such as Samantha Ko (高海寧), Koni Lui (呂慧儀), Whitney Hui (許亦妮), and Tracy Ip (葉翠翠) were all replaced with fresher faces like Rebecca Zhu (朱晨麗), Jacqueline Wong (黃心穎), and Tracy Chu (朱千雪).
Moses Chan Remains on Top
While Linda is considered the top female earner, her salary per appearance does not even stand close to what Moses Chan (陳豪) receives. In first place, his sky-high price is at $200,000 HKD per event, closely followed by Raymond Lam (林峯) at $180,000 HKD and Kevin Cheng (鄭嘉穎) at $160,000 HKD.
Ruco Chan (陳展鵬) managed to make the cut this year after his dramatic performance in Brother’s Keeper (巨輪), earning $100,000 HKD per event. Having been in the industry for over 18 years, his continual hard work finally caught the eye of many companies.
Rising fast after his well-received work from Tiger Cubs <飛虎> and L’Escargot <缺宅男女> Oscar Leung (梁烈唯) proved his worth as he came in tenth place.
There are a number of new faces on the list of top-earning artists. It seems as though the current trend to successful self-selling is by possessing a clean and goddess-like image, as nearly half of the actresses fall into this category.
Source: ihktv.com
This article is written by Su for JayneStars.com.
Ruco is worth more than HKD100,000. Anyway, happy that he’s finally being noticed after all his hard work and good performance.
I thought Edwin Siu did a better job than Ruco for some reason idk if it’s his role that makes him look like that. How much does Edwin get for functions?
Well, you thought wrongly obviously! No one is talking about Edwin as Lo wai shun. His rate is hk$60k
And I forgot to ask how come everyone is commenting about how low Tavia get paid? How come this article doesn’t speak about Ron or Bosco or Kenneth? How much do they get paid for functions and events? This article didn’t even mention about how much the other important tvb stars get paid like Ron , Bosco , Kenneth , Edwin.
The original article has full list of top 10 with Ron, Bosco, Ruco, Edwin and Ma Ming. A list for actresses was there, too. You can find the original one in HKchannel weibo or KuangaiTVB
Fox I can’t read Chinese and don’t know how to access it can you tell me how much they each earn ?
Here is the list: http://ww3.sinaimg.cn/bmiddle/68f631fagw1ealjv9o1b7j20hs0g9juw.jpg
No.5: Ma Ming: increased from 60k to 100k
No.6: Ruco: increased from 50k to 100k
No.7: Bosco: increased from 50k to 80k
No.8: Ron: increased from 40k to 60k
No.9: Edwin: increased from 20k to 60k
Female side:
http://d.yycaf.net/monsizyycaf/forum/201311/15/113206l4qos6ls54i602ns.jpg
No.2: Myolie: increased from 70k to 100k
No.3: Kate: increased from 60k to 80k
No.4: Eliza: increased from 20k to 70k
No.5: TY: increased from 50k to 60k
No.6: Rebecca Zhu: increased from 20k to 55k
No.7: Nancy: increased from 20k to 50k
No.8 and 9: Jacqueline Wong and Tracy Chu: increased from 15k to 50k
No.10: Oceane Zhu: increased from 15k to 40k
Thanks for the info.
Why is Wayne not in the list? Meaning that there is no increase?
Wow sad how Ron makes the same as Edwin. And Bosco makes under Ruco. Over the past few years Ruco and Ewdin been sky rocketing in tvb. But for some reason I always thought Bosco made a lot from functions and stuff.
And Kenneth been kinda sky rocketing in Tvb even tho he did work hard in supporting roles.
take that those daydreaming kate and bosco fans who still think they are popular!
myolie and ma ming 100k win over boscokate 80k! yes! yes!
so funny myolie has no hype in hk these years and busier in mainland and still can demand more than kate who has overhype last year! so funny ma ming and ruco finally overthrow bosco from the pedestal! yes yes win!
@tvbfan because tavia’s low fee of 60k is most shocking and bewildering. like some people said she has all the hype in recent years from tv queen and on call but why can’t she demand the same price like previous tv queen myolie or on call costar ma ming? that means something not appealing with her and hype and tvb promotion alone can’t help if you personally don’t have that commercial appeal!
@tvbfan look, eliza has higher fee than tavia and rebecca zhu’s fee almost equal to tavia, 55k to 60k
btw christine kuo has very high fee last year, suddenly not on the list this year? her fee must really very low now!
Wow but I thought Ron and Bosco was more famous than Kenneth Ma and Ruco. But I always Knew Kate can’t overthrow Myolie spot. Myolie always has been like the first fada beside Charmine and the older fadas.
Bosco is kinda underrated by Txb (like his frds under 620’s side) but in China market, he definitely has higher fee than Ma Ming and Ruco. So does Ron who also has a career in China (although it’s still limited). Therefore they overall still earn more than Ma Ming and Ruco.
Kate doesn’t have a career in China like Myolie’s, so overall she won’t earn as much as Myolie. But maybe can compete with Linda who is also only depended on HK market.
If you don’t see someone in the list, I guess it means tat person can’t make in top 10.
that’s why ma ming and myolie makes a better couple! they have the same earning in hk of 100k! ma ming should is very humble to keep saying he’s poor everytime! bosco is poor! only 80k hk event fee! who cares about mainland ma ming got 1 million for his famous jackie chan movie although only supporting role! that shows his value!
kate will never surpass myolie in acting, looks or income. she has no mainland market like myolie and she’s also getting old lately and only care to look great onscreen instead of acting all out. she deserves the cheap 80k per event price!
Are you referring to the article to say tat Ma Ming received 1 mil for leading role in Jackie Chan’s movie? It was said by Ma Ming himself that he is only supporting and he didn’t receive 1 mil. Jackie Chan’s company also confirmed that 1 mil is too exaggerated, even the leading actor of such movie doesn’t receive that much. It showed his value, lolz.
Bosco gets 200k/eps for Young detective Dee with 35 eps, equal to 7 mil. Minus the cut-out for Txb, he still pocketed at least 3 mil :P. Can he be poor? He doesn’t need to whine about being poor all the time.
For Kate, who say she doesn’t have China market? Although she hasn’t appeared in any China series, she appeared in China movies and she has movie deals. Who else among Txb actresses have as many movie deals as her?
100k HKD/function isn’t tje highest price, so what’s so proud about it, selfiwu?
Fox what is frds under 620′s side? What Tvb steals 4million dollar from 7million dollar earning wtf tvb. I only thought that tvb would take a small percentage like 15% or 25% never knew they took more than half the actors income from mainland china.
Txb often takes 50% and the artists also have to pay for their managers. The amount isn’t fixed. It’s up to each contract.
620’s side has LF, Bosco, Ron, KC (male).
what is 620’s side?
620 stands for Lok Yi Ling, executive of artist department of Txb.
Ruco is getting around $100,000 per event, he’s better off than Edwin and Ruco also acts better than him
Just saying but should Wayne Lai be on the list
Moses didnt remain but soared. He jumped from No.3 to No.1 will double fee. The power of children :).
The world changed, ladies often got more than men in Txb but now the highest paid actress is lower than the 3rd ranked man.
I’m surprised that Moses is paid higher than Raymond. I always thought Raymond has the highest fee since he’s like the HK Justin Beiber. Yup maybe having a child and presenting himself as a loving husband and father rose the price and capture housewives heart.
I’m sure Raymond fees can pass Moses if he has a child and marry Karena and show himself as a loving family man image.
I can imagine Sire Ma’s price plummet down due to her recent bad scandal.
It’s just like a meat market really…
It must be changing year after year depending on what is hot at the moment and who is getting the promotion. That explains Linda at the top since everyday we get news of her to be the TV Queen. The most surprising is Tavia’s low price since OC2 is a highly successful series for these two years and she won the TV Queen last year.
Oh no sorry, I didn’t realize I have a typo in my email field. Fixed it.
Maybe next year :). I sense the wedding bell is going to ring for him. But it’s true tat he has the highest fee because in functions with singing, he’ll be paid way higher, double the amount listed here. I blv same to KC.
Sire goes down, but this year sexy band also has an increase. Koni Lui, Samantha Ko and Tracy Ip all fell.
I remember LF 3 song’s performance in Singapore last year comprise various artist which are 200 k Singapore dollar at around 600 hkd.
The Sundown Festival? Yes LF performed last year represnting HK. This year or should I say tonite Bosco is representing HK also with 3 songs. AOA is there too tonite representing S.Korea.
Yoga Lin is also there too this year. I don’t know if for next year a TVB person can still represent HK to perform and popular enough in Singapore. Maybe Linda or Fred Cheng, or pick a singer outside TVB.
I thought Raymond Was the 2nd I thought first was Kevin the Mose the Wayne. And For Linda I thought she earned around 70 HKD but I guess Im a wrong…
Well, didn’t Moses get a boost from being a couple with Aimee. “Power couples” are all the rage nowadays.
Moses has always been top 3. He also had couple events with Bernice, so with Aimee wouldn’t make that much of a difference. With the baby coming, I think he had a lot of sponsors and such.
He had a lot of couple functions after he started to date Aimee. And now with the baby coming, there’s another market opening up for him. I know he always did quite well – but I believe some of that also came from being a “couple” with Bernice. In any case, yes, he’s always been in top but now he’s past even LF whom I always thought was the golden goose of TVB.
@advo: He is and still is. He also has a raise from 160k to 180k as listed in tat article. It was reported that he gets 400k in functions with singing in HK and double that amount to 1 mil in oversea market. Without singing, in oversea he gets about 400-500k. However he refused to use couple power to go function with his gfs or the fee can get to 1 mil in HK for both.
I honestly don’t get why he’s so popular tbh. Never appreciated his acting, his roles are not really emotional, and he isn’t very good looking either. Couples are all the hype nowadays. He’s just a very lucky man, with very good timing.
what about tavia? i thought she would be high up there as well
Tavia’s fee is very low for a TV Queen and for having the popular anniversary series OC2 this year. Only 60,000. Less than Eliza. Being active in many series this year and having a healthy cute image helps Eliza.
On the bright side, Tavia’s show fee increased from only 50000 to 60000 although still low among her peers.
@bbfanny that price! hahahaha tavia is cheap! tv queen my foot! look at her price! compare with myolie and linda! she’s like an unworthy tv queen! on call series can’t help her if she’s not considered having market value!
Hm Selfiwu isn’t calling Tavia unworthy a little too harsh? But I get it here, it’s questionable that Tavia who is still an active top fadan and has a popular anniversary series this year commands that low of a price. She also has the sequel to AGWTC. I can understand if she’s one of those who only comes back for one series per year and is not in a highly popular series or anniversary series such as Esther Kwan or Niki Chow, but this isn’t the case. Given her situation and popularity and hype of her series this year, why does Tavia’s market value lower when compared to her peers?
Because advertisers don’t like Tavia. It’s as simple as that.
@advo well said! if the advertisers doesn’t like tavia and think she doesn’t have market value, no amount of tv queen and anniversary series hype can push her! 😛
selfiwu,
You attack any artiste the moment you get the chance to, don’t you? When Tavia does better than Myolie, you go all defensive and continually praise Myolie and when Myolie does better than Tavia (i.e. this commercial value chart), you repeatedly step on Tavia and call her cheap? The only one who’s cheap here is you. I’d like to see people pay you that much to appear at some random event.
Anyways, I’m surprised that Eliza is earning just below 3 of the 4 fadans. 😮
The press really love the couple hype, but her relationship with Him Law is a bit… inappropriate. What with some people being sexist and all, since she is older than Him. If she got together with Kenneth, she would probably be boosted too. What I really don’t get is Eliza. All she has is her looks, her acting is seriously bad. And she’s paid so much? Looks are really everything in this world.
Ma Ming himself dun even gets high payment :), how can he boost anyone?
Yea media don’t like a couple with a older woman and younger man. And coming out as a couple in functions or anything would just get you to be paid higher and more fans.
And on call 36 two hasn’t been doing well in ratings wise.
@thc2 too bad ma ming is more interested to pair with myolie than tavia ma ming has mentioned myolie a lot more than tavia :P. doesn’t that show who got the appeal and who doesn’t 😛
Maybe its because of her fashion sense suckz? Most of her clothes she owned are ugly..
May I ask where these figureand info come from? Would artists’ or management really release such detail to the public?..
Are these reported earnings for each series they film or the events they attend?
I think it’s the minimum price that TVB set for each commercial event they attend.
Although Eliza makes 10,000 less per event than Kate, Eliza is favourite among commercial events has been invited to a lot more events this year than any other TVB artistes. I’m not surprised if her total earnings from events alone is very high if counted.
correction eliza is more like executive favourite! but also funny that tavia who is way cheaper has less outside functions and events than expensive linda and myolie and obviously much less than newbie eliza! pathetic. must be really no market tv queen. poor thing! 😛
Yeah, I find it strange too. Why does Tavia get paid less for her attendance at any events?
Yeah! what had happen to Tavia, she just got TVB Queen last year ? she suppose top 3 but not ?
like advo said, advertisers don’t like tavia which translate to no market value. they don’t care if she’s a tv queen or is the female lead for on call franchais 😛
not just tavia fee very cheap, but she also got less promotion events than others! tv queen tavia market value so sad
tavia also got less endorsement, my fren go to hk few week ago and saw many tvb stars faces ma ming, myolie, linda, kate, moses, wayne, raymond lam, bosco etc on billboards on street and mrt and buses but no tavia. even mandy got some slimming advert 😛
Talking about HK, I rmb I saw Him Law’s beer ads in a very funny place: opposite to a public toilet, lolz.
@fox him law endorsing beer? desperate to marry old tavia? do you find tavia ad? 😛
my fren show me a gorgeous mandy slimming ad in mrt station. pathetic if tavia got no ad.
more funny thing is my fren said the innocent pure linda is also selling her body in slimming ad and so is the bosco.
my fren can’t find christine kuo ad maybe she got dropped because of her weight
Yes, beer. I wonder if it’s still there since I has just been to HK in Jan this year.
The person I’ve seen in most ads was Candy Tong aka Tong Mui. She is very popular. I saw Xia Wei with a cosmetic ads, too.
candy tong is who? myolie and chilam sister in triumph2? thought she’s only a tvb keylefe with mediocre acting how can be on demand so much among advertisers??
Candy Tong is a singer, not kelefe nor Txb’s.
Nope, according to the article, it’s the minimum set price that the sponsors willing to pay to them, not the actual price. It means the lowest price they are given when attending functions in HK. In fact, up to each functions, they can be paid higher.
where does it say that Tavia earn less then eliza?
In the chart given by original article:
http://d.yycaf.net/monsizyycaf/forum/201311/15/113206l4qos6ls54i602ns.jpg
Fox do you have one for English?
No, but the list only has names, can be understood easily 🙂
Moses Chan does not seem to be popular at all on this website. Therefore, I am surprised and happy too to find him to be so popular and in demand in Hong Kong markets.
Moses is popular with HK housewives. And they do most house shopping etc. It’s a very valuable market segment.
Jaynestars (or any english TVB ent forum) is not representative of HK audiences. Heck even HK forums themselves are not the true representatives, mostly keyboard warriors.
Well said sehseh.
Jaynestars is not a true reflection of all the HK viewers. Firstly, HK viewers tend to go to the Chinese forums more than English forums. Jaynestars just translates news articles so people who don’t know how to read Chinese can be informed. This is nothing compared to those HK forums. They are much much much bigger in terms of posts and members and topics.
I’m more surprised that there keep being news about Eliza’s high earnings and she needs to eat prop food?! Sounds like TVB is taking a too high cut of her earnings…
I think so too. Plus she’s trying to save money to buy property? Property in HK is really expensive, she might be saving up for her deposit.
Considering the rent levels in HK, I have no doubts about property being really expensive. Now that you mention it, I do seem to recall that she wants to buy (for her family?). Obviously, it is also because of TVB that she is able to command so high rates, but it just seemed crazy to be so frugal that you needed to eat prop food. It sounds a little incongruous, but then we do know TVB take big cuts.
Whoa…Moses def soared. He usually makes it top 3, but he’s #1 now. Linda was also #1 last year right? I remembered Bernice used to be the highest paid TVB actress.
Bernice, then Charmaine, then Myolie :). Last year No.1 as provided in the article was Myolie, not Linda.
In this case highest earning, not highest paid. Prior to leaving TVB, Bernice & Charmaine earned most from endorsers.
2006: Charmaine
2007: Bernice
2008: Charmaine
2009: Charmaine
2010: Don’t remember, but it could be Charmaine as well
2011 and beyond: Doesn’t follow since Charmaine left TVB.
Ok, checked 2010 is also Charmaine unless we have another TVB actress earning near HKD30 million.
Ah yes, highest earning.
2011: Myolie
2012: Myolie
Because she was listed twice in Forbe’s list.
In 2008 highest paid was Gigi Lai. There were a list leaked few years ago to say so.
2013, highest earning I guess Myolie again.
agree 2013 should be myolie again! who else actress in tvb film two mainland series and many promo events in mainland? none! kate, tavia and linda has low market value in mainland. we all know the real money come from mainland!
bernice plummet to rock bottom after the scandal with Alastair. she also has no market in mainland so has nowhere to run to.
This is about which artist has highest earning in TVB, not who is the richest artist in TVB. What’s the point discussing about the former while the latter is much more realistic.
please we ARE talking about highest earning artistes! forbes list that we talk also about earnings!
Nah, Kate is well demanded in HK, FYI.
don’t tell me you feel butthurted because tavia’s market value so low
selfiwu,
I guess you don’t know what the word ‘sarcasm’ means.
Have just seen selfiwu’s comment about Bernice. Too bad for you, Bernice is having a good career in China 😛
LOLOL Myolie behind Linda? Even with TVQueen title and numerous mainland productions/exposure?! wow. Well I guess earning tv Queen doesn’t do jack.
@Clementine: Highest payment is different to highest earning. And HK function fee is different to oversea fee.
if that’s the case, shouldn’t Linda be in the Forbes list then?
@notasaint now another one who don’t get it! this is only hk fee list! not an earning list that’s why myolie make it to forbes and not linda! because myolie gets much more from linda from her mainland wages!
According to NEXT, in 2008:
1. Charmaine Sheh HKD12.1 million
2. Raymond Lam HKD9.3 million
3. Bernice Liu HKD6.3 million
4. Moses Chan HKD5.6 million
5. Bosco Wong HKD4.79 million
Abu Wayne
Hmm why no mention of Charmaine ??
Charmaine Sheh is not on any contract with TVB in 2013 I guess.
Exactly. Plus she reportedly earn 200k per event in HK, and double the amount in Mainland China.
My bad, didn’t notice it was among TVB artists..
So surprised by tavia’s low fee! Don’t understand? Still love her regardless!! 🙂 can someone explain and actually giving me a legit answer instead of bashing on tavia. Ahem cough sefiwu
check my last reply and if you don’t want to read mine, read advo’s :P. simple and well said answer 😛
add more tavia also don’t get much functions in mainland where myolie attend more function in mainland because mainland advertisers willing to pay much much higher than hk advertisers! seem like tavia not popular among mainland advertisers too 😛
Not Tavia’s fault that she does not get much exposure in Mainland as she’s high demand in HK producing dramas for tbb. Unlike Myolie, in which tbb has let off to venture in Mainland market-but even with her break into the Mainland market, Myolie is behind Linda which is sad. I thought Myolie would top it off as the highest paid one.
Tavia have numerous functions and events at mainland during her break at late 2012 Dec and early 2013 Feb. The only time she did not attend function was the rime she had to film On Call 2 and PP She will attends few Christmas and New year functions at mainland tis coming Dec. So, she definitely have demand on mainland.
The total amount Myolie earns is definitely more than Linda, Clementine. This list is simply the minimum amount sponsors are willing to pay to Txb stars for HK (Txb) functions.
@clementine haha! do you even understand what the chart is about? it’s about the lowest min fee an advertiser willing to pay each artiste for one event HK appearance not total earning! myolie’s total earning for sure more than linda since she did more mainland functions which pays doubled or tripled than hk ones! mind you myolie also only has triumph2 this year to back up her hk hype while linda is hyped for tv queen, concert, album, and brother keeper just finish airing. logically linda has more exposures in hk to allow her to demand more! like moses and his neverending happy family story this year!
ironically like some people said tavia with her exposures in on call and on call 2 and with fresh impact from tv queen last year fail to demand better price than eliza who never get a lead role yet 😛
Simple. Tavia is not pretty like Linda and advertisers don’t like her nose.
well, Tavia’a acting is way better than Linda. Linda’s acting is just poor, like very poor. All of her roles are weak, and she can’t act villain roles at all
The point is Tavia is long lasting becasue she got the skills while Lina will not last forever in the industry.
agree with @unkown. Tavia will last way longer than Linda because she has the skills and has 实力
OH YEA! It must be the nose!!! I hated Tavia’s new nose, the sponsors must be hating it also!! Im always distracted by her nose in On Call..
Lol the “nose”! IDK what happen I typed this comment before but didn’t show up going re type it out. Tavia nose does look a bit fake. It looks kinda too long/sharp/tall like a American/British or white person. And Tavia is dating a younger guy so media don’t like that and on-call 36 two hasn’t been doing well in ratings.
Not surprise. Tat the different between someone with and without ‘Miss’ tittle. Beside Tavia did not sing for functions tat why her fees might get lower . Linda tis year have mini concert,release new album tats why advertiser willing to pay more.
That is an awful picture of Linda who looks sickly thin and sorry to say looks like a beautiful man.
I can’t believe Moses can demand so much.
can :P. demand more than lam fung too 😛
He can. He is highly valued by endorsers because of his good image, and he knows how to promote the brand and carry himself professionally at events.
Moses does a lot of ads in years, more than anyone else I’ve seen in HK. So I vote for “can”, too.
@ Sehseh
He’s also popular with housewives. I think more than anything, that’s the thing that makes him attractive to endorsers.
heard that moses’ most famous ad is a hair growth ad
Oh, i thought he is called coffee man? Must be coffee?
More like Jackie Chan hair growth formula competitor.
I was quite suprised by Mose’s fee payment- I mean I knew he’d be quite high up, but didnt expect him to be such a demand and have advertisers willing to pay that high. After Aimee’s baby’s birth, I believe Aimee’s functional fees would skyrocket too. The power couple lol!
I think many people see Moses as a real “gentleman”, with good taste.
moses has a longtime hairgrowth sponsor deal where he got some award every year because he’s endirsing the product.
like myolie she has a longtime beauty center endorsement deal in malaysia and ma ming has a famous skin center endorsement. you can see his improved supple skin
for artists, it is better to have 实力 than just a beautiful outer appearance. once they age, their value also drops. Tavia is more of the 实力 group, she can act better than the younger and other fa dans. As linda, Eliza, they are not really the 实力 group, their acting sucks. their acting really, really needs huge improvement.
Support Tavia again as TV queen
Well nothing wrong with having good acting skills but u still need to have market value. U can’t just survive from making money from a tvb drama lol. I think Tavia is actually not bad looking. Too bad she don’t have market value. Linda and Eliza is young and pretty so quite popular with the sponsors. That’s life! People rather see young pretty faces for their products then someone old and not pretty. That’s business.
Than those aren’t called actresses. Actress need to be able to act, not just have pretty faces.
Tavia is good looking and she have the skill to act, so she will last longer than Linda & Eliza.
Agree. Tavia looks old for her age very often. Moreover, it could be due to her “blunt” personality. Tavia likes to “寸人” a lot, pretending to be casual and friendly. Personally I don’t like her, not only because she is not pretty but also due to her personality. She can be quite rude during interviews with other artistes, especially if they are junior to her.
Probably it is the reason why Tavia is not well-liked by HK endorsers.
Sheldon, I get what u want to say. I agree u should know how to act to be an actress or actor. But u should know by now u don’t need to know how to act very good to be an actress or actor in HK! Come on!
TVB have 80% of artists that can’t act well but they are popular because of the age (young) and looks. Same goes with HK singers…. 80% of them can’t sing but are singers that are popular. All I’m saying is that’s business and reality. I personally rather watch a pretty actress than an ugly one. I rather see a TV commercial for a skin or hair product or jewelry product with Linda/Eliza than Tavia :p yes I agree Tavia is a great actress and deserve TV Queen. Absolutely!
@Nicholas
Well, I really can’t stand those so called young actresses/actors that can’t act or even pronounce their lines properly. Acting for Linda or Eliza won’t last long. If they don’t have the actual strengths, then it will never last long. Having an pretty outer appearance won’t last long as well.
And yes, I support Tavia again for TV queen, she deserves it
@sandcherry, i agree with what you said about Tavia pretending to be casual and friendly and about being rude in a “nice” way to her more junior co-stars during interviews. She always has smart-alecky comments to make about them which embarrasses them but they just have to tolerate the comments since it’s an interview and it wont be nice to rebut her. But she’s really different in interviews with veterans like Damien Lau cos she knows that he wont put up with her smarty comments as she’s junior compared to him. So in a way, she sucks up to the right people and 狗眼看人低。
and she’s really as fake as her nose.
kit-kat:
Your comments are so right to the point. That is exactly how I felt about Tavia Yeung. She did exactly what you said in your post during interviews. I also watched her interview with Damian Lau on “The Green Room” during the airing of “SSSS”, and she did exactly what you said …….. “But she’s really different in interviews with veterans like Damien Lau cos she knows that he wont put up with her smarty comments as she’s junior compared to him. So in a way, she sucks up to the right people and 狗眼看人低。”
I never liked her ever since watching those interviews. She interrupted some junior or “green leaf” artistes during one of the TVB Anniversary ceremonies.
I also watched a link recently, posted on TVB forum, showing that Tavia was “making a face” at Nancy Wu, then turned her face and smiled at Kate Tsui. It seemed that she wanted to get Kate’s agreement to boycott Nancy Wu. The video clip was taken at a TVB Anniversary ceremony.
I think Tavia Yeung is a rather mean person, 沒有大將作風. She does not act like a big sister. She is terrible in interviews.
Charmaine Sheh and Myolie Wu are very good in this respect. They always know what to say and compliment others.
Disagree about Myolie with her interviews. She’s pretty neutral. Doesn’t leak out info but neither are the responses smooth. So it’s very neutral.
Charmaine is a master mind. Like a calculative master mind. She knows what to say and what not to say plus her answers are actually informative. It’s not close-ended. But I think that is just a skill that you learn to survive in the industry.
Tavia, I like her. I hear her interviews and she’s just ‘loud’ and speaks. Lol. Nothing harmful. I do feel the dislike that goes towards her regarding her ‘interviewing skills’ is nothing more but a back up reasoning to dislike her.
@Sandcherry:
That gif you mentioned where you see Tavia making a face at Nancy Wu with Kate Tsui.. ehh never rely on those gifs. I learn a valuable lesson when following Korean Girl Group T-ARA where several gifs were made by netizens to back up their point how one member was bullied out of the group. It was a horrible misunderstanding. Those gifs are evil. Netizens are evil. Of course netizens who fabricate stuff such as gifs and such to prove their points are the ones im referring to.
And regarding that gif, both Tavia and Nancy clarified that they had no idea what was going on .. on their weibo. They have absolutely no bad blood between them. I think you can find weibo posts if you search it in Chinese.
I personally saw Tavia’s reaction on TV at a TVB Anniversary ceremony. One of the actresses (not a 1st lead actress) was asked to say something and she “butt” in. It was very rude of her to do it at such a big occasion, especially that actress was not a senior one. She should respect other people and let them speak for themselves. She always “butts” in at any interviews, except the one with Damien Lau. It is very hard for me to respect her and say she is a classy actress.
Agree totally with you on Charmaine Sheh about her interviews. She is always marvellous and polite. I think she is one of the best artistes in TVB in interviews (long or short).
Well, Myolie Wu is a bit diplomatic, but at least she is not rude or mean.
I never liked Tavia Yeung. She can be considered “casual and friendly” to other people, but not to me. She was very mean and made fun of Ruco Chan at one of the interviews after the airing of “The Other Truth” because Ruco Chan was not popular then.
In terms of acting, Tavia Yeung is not bad. But I have not seen much improvement in the past few years. She is one of the better ones among the top 5 fadans. However, she has been an actress with TVB for 13+ years, plus she attended the full-time TVB Artistes’ Training Course.
sandcherry, i totally know what you’re saying about Tavia cos those are the vibes i get from her. She has no repect for those who are her juniors and has a habit of butting in with some comments which she and her fans think make her look cute and friendly when in reality, she’s actually putting those people down in a roundabout way. I also watched those interviews you mentioned and arrived at the same opinion as you. Her bubbliness and friendliness are totally fake. The contrast in her behaviour towards Ruco and Damien are obvious to all except her fans.
No it isn’t just her ‘fans’ who bys her so called bubbliness and friendliness. I am not a fan. I like her but that doesn’t make me a fan. A fan is devoted to their favorites. I am not devoted to Tavia. Lets clear that jargon up.
So since I am not a fan and I do by her friendliness, and for years there hasn’t been any negative interpersonal news between Tavia and co-workers which speaks volumes.
But I understand where both of you are coming from. Because when I see my younger clients speak loudly, interrupting their elders and etc, I automatically assume those young adults have no manners and are nasty. That’s human. That’s okay. But the important thing is to keep an open mind.
Oh and Sanscherry, I wasn’t exactly praising Charmaine either. Personally, I do not like calculative tactics cause that usually correlates to a person being calculative and I don’t take that very well. But hey, I won’t deny she does have the best skill set for interviews. Lol.
tavia always talk like uneducated airhead and always about money. now we know why must be becausr her function fee is cheap and less than newbie eliza sam
I don’t think Tavia is an airhead. I just don’t think she has any discernible opinion about anything. But can you blame her? After years in supporting role, she finally has a change in being an A-lister, so not having a real opinion of anything is her way of surviving the business.
@funn like you said she has no opinion on things and if you watched her interviews she never give intelligent answers to things. wasn’t she only school until hk form 3 or something like that? that might explain her air headness and high focus for money, but that might make her look rough and airhead to advertisers too
Who doesn’t want a comfortable secured life? So she works hard, she earned her money her way and a good way. I don’t think she is stupid but I do think due to her lack of education she is not articulate. Why she doesn’t have an opinion and doesn’t give an opinion and tried to give neutral answer which answers nothing is because she wants to be on the good side of everyone by being PC. She doesn’t seem to be the sort who will complain or who will express a stand on anything. Doesn’t make her an airhead but rather just makes her incredibly safe and incredibly boring. I don’t even think she is witty. point is watch her act but don’t watch her interviews.
boring is definitely her. add to the list of why she’s not popular among advertisers
Welcome back cray cray.
It doesn’t matter if people think highly of Charmaine Sheh or not. Personally I think she is pretty smart in her interviews. She will not offend other persons, and still keeps herself very classy and professional. Sometimes an artiste has to behave that way in order to have less scandals and rumours.
For example, Tavia Yeung and Kenneth Ma talked nothing but making money at their interviews. More gossips and rumours would easily be generated by tabloids.
kit-kat:
I like your description about Tavia Yeung “Her bubbliness and friendliness are totally fake”. I agree totally. If she is such a friendly person, why didn’t she do same to Damien Lau at their “Green Room” interview? She did not do it because Damien is a prestigious and good acting veteran.
Sorry to butt in but I think a true friend or even a friendly person won’t say something like “I don’t know him well” when commenting about a scandal of a friend/colleague and after that few months (when the scandal was calm), changed to “I’ll protect him because he is my friend”. A friend/friendly person also won’t hope a friend to lose because she hasn’t won. A friend/friendly person won’t badmouth another person when s/he isn’t around.
she is a bubble head who somehow know to suck up with the right executive. everyone go look at the latest tvb weekly magazine where they have a photoshoot of the top fadans and siu sangs. you know who suck up the most when she get to be placed at the center all by herself.
what’s horrible is ruco and ron aren’t placed in the photoshoot when their event fees stated by this sudden magazine surpass or equal to some people in photoshoot! tvb not promoting ruco and ron enough! why 60k tavia, 80k boskate is there when 100k rico and 60k ron can’t get in! tvb bias!
and suck that bosco, raymond, kate and tavia got to the center when their tvb roles this year are none or not famous
I also think Tavia Yeung knows how to suck up to the TVB executives. I am sure that every artiste does it. However, some of them do it in a classy manner (nice and “invisible”), but not Tavia. Her bubbling personality shows herself off easily.
and suck that bosco, raymond, kate and tavia got to the center when their tvb roles this year are none or not famous
LMAO~, selfiwu, it’s also correct to your beloved Ma Ming who is in the photoshot.
Perhaps this photoshot should be fair to pull out anyone lower than 100k :P. From 120k onward for example. Than it won’t be unfair to Ruco and Ron.
@Fox, I’m curious, who are you talking about?
@sandcherry, she didn’t do it to Damien cos he’ll not stand for her nonsense and he’s the Big Brother who’s well respected, she knows who she can “bully”, who won’t talk back at her.
kit-kat:
I know …….re Damien Lau’s case. Tavia Yeung is pretty snobbish and surely knows how to handle cases like this. She only does it to artistes who are junior than she.
@kit-kat: Who do you want to know? The “friendly” person I blv you can guess (as I vowed not to call name), the friend/colleague with scandals are LF and Ron.
Fox:
You made me curious too. Who is that person?
@fox ma ming isn’t at center he’s on the side with kevin and moses and charmaine
the dead center is tavia having sle attention to herself with no one standing behind her. someone is close to the executive?
i know the friendly person is one of the so called top fadan
Sandcherry – Many times you have said you are older than the people on this site but you are most likely one of those who always use being older than the other person as an excuse for maturity. I have been skimming through this forum for a while and I realize your comments are extremely contradicting and full of anal. Are you really an adult or an “old” adult which you claim to be? Or are you just trying to project that identity onto someone else hoping they’ll believe your “wisdom”? Because you consistently sound like a warped teenager.
Dear Amanda:
It is none of your business to know if I am an adult or an older adult. I don’t even recall saying much about my age and identity.
You must be a diehard fan of Tavia Yeung and you are so upset when you see people criticizing your idol. I can easily understand it.
I think all of us here have the right to comment on any artiste, either good or not. If you don’t like to read mine, don’t bother. Perhaps you are a young kid who cannot stand having your idols criticized. If an artiste is a public figure, he/she does have the “privilege” of being criticized by his/her audience.
Moreover, I was only stating the facts, and shared by other readers, about Tavia Yeung. I did not make them up myself.
You are more than welcome to praise your idols if you wish. I can surely accept other people’s comments no matter they are praises or nasty words.
Tavia is actually pretty . I think she has less endorsements bc she is not from pageants. Eliza and Linda have the sweet girl next door look and tavia a different kind of pretty. U can’t really compare them. When they posess diff auras. I think tavia is elegant compared to the two.
Personally I think Tavia’s smile is rather bitter, and not pleasant. Therefore, she is excellent for those cry scenes.
In terms of elegance, everyone has different expectations. I find that Fala Chan is pretty, pleasant and elegant among the top 5 fadans.
I also think fala is elegant . I would put fala and tavia in the same elegance group out of the fadans.
Did fala or niki make the list?? I can’t read Chinese so I don’t know who made the list! Lol help please anyone :)?
Fala and Nike were not on the list. Fala left TVB in May and Niki is not their contractual artiste. Probably they should not be included in the list.
Fala’s “twin sister” Rebecca Zhu made the list, 550k, only lower than last year “queen” 50k. So if Fala is still in, she would make the list.
Elegant club in Txb has Shirley, Sonija, Jessie Sum and Rebecca Zhu to me. They are really elegant, look wise and so does their actions.
Funny how Tavia doesn’t make that much per show when she always talks about how much she wants to make money in articles… perhaps she always talks about it because she needs it? Must suck to be a relatively poor TV Queen… It would be alright if she was into the fame but she’s very money minded. She must be so frustrated.
In an article somewhere she said she doesn’t think her career is at its peak yet because she hasnt ventured into mainland… but does she have a good fan base in mainland? Last time i checked her show fee was very low and she played supporting roles.
The more an artiste acts in Mainland China, the more popularity he/she will achieve. It just takes times.
But she still has a low starting fee for a TVB Fadan, right? I thought the reason people like winning BA is because it raises their starting fees in Mainland too.
You are right in this respect. They cannot ask for high fees until they are popular
Himhim dun get enough to make the list :p.
support Raymond Lam!
I don’t agree that great acting will last longer in this industry (as in making more money! ) Look at all the old actresses now that act well but where are there??? They have no functions, no commercials, no exposures at all. How much do they make? This includes great actress like Ada, Esther, sheren, kenix, Joey meng, yoyo mung, etc… Do u consider them lasting long???
What do u mean by last long anyways? Vivian chow who can’t act well but have the looks … still surviving with functions, and commercials for her age which is close the 45-50 years old. That is last long!
Most of those actress that you mentioned above are now married,and that they are looking after their kids and family, therefore, less exposure is very common. Now Sheren, in either HK or in mainland, her popularity is always high, especially in mainland, her focus now is in mainland.
Youth does not last long.
Then no actress can last long because they need to get married and have kids lol. Please mention some actress that u say act so well and last long at old age. Please I can’t think of one lol
I really like Sheren so I hope she comes back to HK where she has better roles. In China she only has supportings. Never seen her as lead. Her age is the matter.
Michelle Yim. Michelle has a lot of fans. Even on websites, you can see them scolding the youngsters when they say something bad about Michelle. haha.
This is just the show price commanded in HK. Im certain Ray, Kevin, Myolie, Bosco, Ron command a higher price in mainland China, which is evident from their commercial activities in mainland. Linda and Moses only attend HK events.
when the same list was published around the time tavia won TV queen last year, i believe it said that her asking price was impacted by her nose and the car shaking incident. So if the momentum of her TV queen win isnt enough to increase her price, i dont see how her acting skills alone (as praised by her fans) can help increase her price. She looks funny with that nose, cant make jokes except those crude $$$ ones, not surprised advertisers arent interested in hiring her. I am amused by her fans always asking her to leave tvb. If she doesnt stay in tvb where can she go? If even sheren cant get good leading roles in mainland. What more pinocchio?
@nicole well said. tavia must be impacted from the car shock with him him that although tvb give her the tv queen and make on call 2 anniversary series she fail to be appealing to organizers or land mainland lead roles.
maming is in same series with tavia from last year and this year and only win most favourite but got his lowest price rise to 100,000
but tavia with the same series and tv queen title only got 60,000
simple, no appeal to advertisers
The only female HK artist which is successful now is Michelle Ye in mainland and the rest of the Hk females artists who has gone there none of them are leading at all cuz first of all they have problems speaking fluently in mandarin secondly they can’t compete with the china plastic dolls. Don’t expect all these artists like Molie ; kate ,travia or Linda etc to go to mainland to be successful Better stay in HK. Cus China is not your market.
Didn’t Charmaine Sheh get lead roles in Mainland China? All the voices are dubbed anyway, so it does not really matter if they can speak good Mandarin or not. I believe that Kevin Cheng can speak good Mandarin since he lived in Taiwan for many years, but his voice was dubbed in “Bu Bu Jin Xin”.
Charmaine has.
Every Chinese series have dub. Not only HK/Taiwan artists are dubbed but also Chinese speakers. Yes, tat’s why good Mando dun affect much. However with good Mando, artists can communicate with others better or understand the orders of directors.
That is correct.
I find those dubbed their voices are not so convinced to watch any way not for me.
Myolie did well in China with leading roles 🙂
I see maybe one or two I guess…
I think 4-5 already :).
myolie already lead in 4-5 china series. don’t talk if you don’t know
But are her series getting any noise? You can make more money in the Mainland market, but that doesn’t mean you’re popular. Success would be like Sammul and Kevin. Both are trying to keep up with the momentum after their hit dramas. Heck, even Michelle Ye has a few hit dramas, but she’s in a different league.
Her series generated a fair amount of noises. Her role was well liked in Sammul’s most popular series Beauty’s Schemes. If Sammul with Beauty’s Schemes is considered as successful, then Myolie is also successful.
I remember in an article long time ago said that Wayne gained 10 million that year but Wayne said that it was not true because he did not get that much. I don’t believe in the article because no artist wants to say about how much they get for an event, just media make up the news .
wow Myolie in under Linda , i think coz recent year is making more in mainland china than in HK.
Dont understand why Moses is such a high demand in HK, i guess HK viewer love him.
How is Raymond Lam doing in China? Is it popular in China? thx in advise for input
Price or what? For function fee, he received 600k-1 mil per function (with singing) or 400-600k per function (without singing). For series, he received 600k RMB (equal to about 720k HKD) per eps for Detective and Doctor.
is it good or great price compare to other HK artist?
It’s the highest price paid to a Txb artists.
What is the reason that lead LF getting the highest price ???
Main reason: The sponsors/producers think that he is worth that much.
What is the reason that leads LF getting the highest price ???
For a TVB queen, Tavia is the lowest paid earner, she’s not pretty enough to do commercials, besides her ugly nose is driving advertisers away! Btw, she has dark skin.
what is the forbe list in tvb for 2012