Wong Jing Ridicules Poor Quality of 2012 Miss Hong Kong Contestants
Pictured above, from left to right: Carat Cheung, Roxanne Tong, and Cynthia Tsang.
Despite TVB’s grand plans in marketing the 40th Anniversary of the Miss Hong Kong Pageant this year, the 14 contestants have come under fire as being poor in quality. When the bikini photos of the contestants were unveiled earlier this week, Hong Kong tabloids criticized the contestants for their flat chests and flabby abdomens. Director Wong Jing (王晶) blasted TVB, “If there are no [hot] women, then do not organize the pageant!”
Contestants’ Belly Bulges Ridiculed
Posing in string bikinis in London, the 2012 Miss Hong Kong Pageant contestants’ bodies were swiftly criticized. Former hot favorites, small-chested Christy Chan (陳潔玲) and Roxanne Tong (湯洛雯), possessed obvious belly bulges which they tried to contain in their photographs.
Both women apologized for their flabby abdomens. Christy Chan promised to exercise more to achieve a fitter figure. Roxanne Tong said, “I was born with natural protruding ribs. I looked the same even when I was skinner earlier!”
Tabloids reported earlier that Roxanne Tong had a habit of carelessly placing her underwearing briefs in a London hotel lounge. Roxanne’s uncle and former Five Tigers member, Kent Tong (湯鎮業), retorted angrily, “Why would she carelessly place her underwear briefs? And this was in the public area of the hotel? That’s impossible! I have lived with members of her family!” Roxanne’s mother cleared her daughter’s name, claiming that she possessed good hygiene habits.
Despite Christy Chan’s pure exterior, netizens claimed that she possessed a rough manner of speech, often cursing, was addicted to gambling and staying out late at night. Other netizens stated that Carat Cheung (張名雅) may be more newsworthy, implying a scandalous past!
Ivana Wong (王舒銳) was spotted with red patches on her chest. She explained, “My skin turns sensitive even with a slight touch!” Asked why she appeared to have pimples on her face, Ivana replied, “I had a lot of stress from school examinations earlier. I have already seen a doctor.”
Top Three Candidates
The “Top 3” candidates in the 2012 Miss Hong Kong Pageant thus fare were Cynthia Tsang (曾明俐), Carat Cheung, and Roxanne Tong. Cynthia and Carat have been granted direct entry to compete in the finals due to their high scores. Both women possessed busty figures when they appeared in their bikinis.
Quality of Candidates Slip Further
In past decades, the Miss Hong Kong Pageant was a venerable beauty competition, known for producing stunning beauties such as Cherie Chung (鍾楚紅), Maggie Cheung (張曼玉), Chingmy Yau (邱淑貞), Elizabeth Lee (李美鳳), and Michelle Reis (李嘉欣). Despite broadening its international recruitment efforts, the quality of contestants in recent years has slipped dramatically.
In 2010, the Miss Hong Kong Pageant winner, Toby Chan (陳庭欣), was widely criticized as being an unattractive “pork chop” and undeserving of the crown. The runner-ups, Sammy Cheung (張秀文) and Lisa Chong (莊思明), were also considered to be unremarkable. Last year’s winners, Rebecca Zhu (朱晨麗), Hyman Chu (朱希敏) and Whitney Hui (許亦妮) gave fans hope that the Miss Hong Kong Pageant was still able to produce beauties with great figures.
Wong Jing Issues Fierce Criticism of Contestants
The marketing noise that TVB placed on the 2012 Miss Hong Kong Pageant–by incorporating fierce elimination rounds customary of western reality TV shows–extracted more blunt criticism of the candidates. After the current 14 candidates appeared in string bikinis, netizens blasted the women for their poor figures.
One netizen wrote tauntingly, “It is indeed true that some women look better clothed than naked!”
Regular Miss Hong Kong Pageant emcee, Nat Chan (陳百祥), said politely that the quality of this year’s contestants were high.
Nat’s remark attracted the attention of good friend, Director Wong Jing. Known for casting gorgeous beauties in his movies, Wong Jing challenged Nat’s statement that the contestants were “high quality.” After viewing the women’s swimsuit photos taken in London, Wong Jing said that the women were flat chested as a mirror and overall terrible in quality. Wong Jing blasted TVB, “If there are no [hot] women, then do not organize the pageant!”
Wong Jing asked, “So there will be elimination rounds in this year’s pageant? Can all of the contestants be eliminated?” Referring to the former quality of the contestants, Wong Jing remarked that the first Miss Hong Kong winner from 1973, Elaine Sung (孫泳恩), trumped in beauty over this year’s candidates!
Source: Oriental Daily via ihktv.com, TVB.com
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Jayne: Hopefully the women firm up their abs before the competition. There is not a lot of time left before the August competition though. Wong Jing is really too harsh in his criticism though. So women with modest busts cannot have good bodies? I think proportion is more important. A pair of great legs can make a killer body too!
the girls are all thin, but none are fit looking.
They are all thin, typical Hong Kong girls.
Seriously? Wong Jing is one to talk about how hot girls are?
It’s weird to see people obsess over a girl’s breast size or personal life. They are not running for higher office. So why should we impose our moral values on a beauty contest?
I personally think it’s a good thing that there are a variety of girls with various body shapes on here. Shows that there is no such “one size fits all”.
Seriously? Obsessing over a girl’s chest and stomach? Get over it, people.
Yes, indeed these girl don’t have hot bodie compare to the 90s contestants but his comments is very harsh.
Now these girls need to eat and work out more as they’re too skinny.
Spray tan all of them and they’ll look toner.
Either that or TVB should make them do. crunches between now and the competition.
Tell Wong Jing to lose his gut first before commenting on others.
uhh wow wong jing makes it seem like you need a big chest in order to be hot, wtheck…I think Miss Hong Kong should be focused more on elegance with good communicative skills and beauty. This isn’t a leng mo competition xP Anyways, I don’t agree with the Top 3, but can’t wait to see the show and why Carat and Cynthia are guaranteed into the finals.
It’s a meat market game really. I mean, it’s important that contestants display a good healthy body image, but that doesn’t mean they need to be critcised like that…implying that hot=bigger chested women, they will only be stigmatised by their busty image once they enter the entertainment industry. His comment shows that MISS HK pageant is losing genuine quality as time goes by because his idea of top quality contestants is judged mainly by their external appearance.
I think Wong Jing should strap on a biniki and strut around so we can see how fit he is.
ugh… *bikini 😛
he is right, none of them look that great
I fully agree with Wong Jing. This year’s contestants suck! Last year was improvement.
Thanks, TeeVeeBee!!!
Wong jing reminds me of Jabba the hut in star wars …auto beauty is a prerequisite , does he need to make it sound so low class , the flat as mirror comments makes it clearly what he expects —-flesh parade …
facially they’re ok than the few years before last year but their bodies this year aren’t that good. Rebecca and her pals last year was better.
but Wong Jing’s comment made himself sound cheap and only looking for big boobs.
Of course Wong Jing is cheap and low class. He was one of those popular producers for 3rd grade movies (sexy and nude girls). He will definitely look for female bodies with big breasts.
You’re wrong! Wong Jing is a very high taste man with a strong preference of females with magnificent body.
If a female cannot salivate a guy while wearing a bikini, I wonder what makes you to think that she’s a well qualified pretty gal?
All are not good
I think this year’s mhk contestants are okay seriously.. got some natural beauties in them. In the other word, I dont think ppl should take concern of wong jing’s remarks at all since jing is a well known director who only have LOVE for those big chested women.
His comments are absurd….does he really want all the girls to look like Viann Zhang with plastic boobs and a Barbie-like face? Is that what is beautiful? Come on…give the girls a break, they are fine as is.
Wong Jing actually does have a point. I am sorry but if those 3 are already the top candidates, how more pork chop is the rest then?
But seriously, if you have skills or the looks, you just don’t enter HK pageants anymore. How many winners actually have a successful career in the business? It’s only good if you want to marry a rich man.
And almost every year the jury members are apparently blind or just have a exotic taste or something. They almost always choose the most pork chop for the runner-up, then the second most pork chop for the first place and finally the most pretty one get nothing.
I disagree with Wong Jing that the girls are flat-chested. But, I do agree with what J said in the other article. The girls really look like they seldom exercise. They are thin, but, the little flesh they have still look flabby and not toned.
I remember watching the MCI contests some years ago. The contestants from the west are meatier than these contestants, but, they don’t look flabby. Their body looks healthy.
Yes, flat-chested is not a problem at all. As long as the girls are pretty, I think you can have a great pageant. So I was purely talking about their faces, not their body hahaha.
YOu must be a flat-chest gal. Aiyoyo…
I don’t think that any of these girls look flat.
To some people they may look ‘fat’ but this is because they are basically skinny everywhere apart from their waist, so they just need to exercise a bit more then they will be fine.
Anyone interesting in how Elaine Sun looks like back in the days she competed in the first Ms HK, here’s the picture.
http://img1.bbs.163.com/new/20090822/tvb/zh/zhangs_wh/2177593c66941c16396182fecc369ae6.jpg
http://image2.sina.com.cn/ent/s/h/2002-08-13/2_28-3-326-86_20020813111535.jpg
I do agree with the general sentiment that since these girls have signed up for a beauty pageant, they should be working towards a toned body in order to look their best.
However, to imply that an ample bosom is the one standard of beauty is ridiculous. As a woman who is not… err… well-endowed, I have always admired the Miss HK winners who were known for their beautiful faces, sparkling wit, or intelligence (Anita Yuen and Amy Kwok comes to mind) despite less-than-staggering proportions.
My hope is that differing forms of beauty are all celebrated, lest we end up with a single standard that is only achievable through artificial/plastic means.
I want to *like* your comment 🙂
so what about flabby abs? That Christine Kuo had a flabby ab when she won MCI. just google it. If she can win, then someone else can as well.
Those looks like my tummy after having two kids that is. I used to have a complete flat stomach with no extra fat before having kids…so if you havent have kids and have a flabby tum that’s not acceptable…no excuses. They need beautiful candidates to promote HK and many more stuff. If your gonna be on TV you have to look your best!
“Despite Christy Chan’s pure exterior, netizens claimed that she possessed a rough manner of speech, often cursing, was addicted to gambling and staying out late at night. ”
And so my bubble is burst! Sigh.. I knew it! I KNEW IT!
These girls should have taken 1 year to tone up tummy etc. Didn’t they know there will be swimsuit section and all that?
Anyway they’re not fat or flabby. Just not toned.
Agree with him about dropping the event if the sample is of bad quality.
He must be a fan of plastic dolls like Viann, Angelababy etc. If so there is no need to have a pageant whatsoever according to him just ship the girls directly to do a full body PS, LOL.
TVB should’ve have made these girls run 10K every day to tone up since it’s hard to keep your belly in when breathing 😀
What bothers me is Roxanne’s protruding ribs, did she purposely did that just to have a flat tummy or what? It sure looks weird to me..
Yeah, lame excuse just tell the truth i.e needed to keep her belly in order to have a flat tummy.
Her PS is bad she looks OLD
haha how can u tell that she has PS done? which part?
My natural PS dector and X-ray vision provides my with the tools to detect plastic dolls, haha (JK, there was an article abt her being a member of the chucky society)
Her nose, chin and possibly eyes.
her PS sure wasn’t that extreme I guess because she still looks humanize haha.. unlike Viann who looks like a 100% barbie doll (aka chucky)..hehe
There’s something about her nose that doesn’t look right. If she did get PS done on it, then it’s a bad job. Just look at the photo above.
i think that Roxanne was trying to hold herbreath when she was taking these photos to make her belly look less flabby
Yea, I don’t like her nose at all. She had a bad job done to it if she did get that part done. Maybe it was minor so she would look more human instead of like a chucky doll??
Good one exiodus! If she had to have PS just to look like that, goodness, I really wonder how he looked before??
What the heck?? Did she have to hold her breath and belly in to try to look thinner in the above photo? Her belly looks really awkward…
these girls ain’t fat at all! they all look healthy size!
does wong jing think he is recruiting for his latest cat 3 film? these girls are a healthy size with natural breasts. leave them alone.
The Girls look fine body wise. They are posing poorly and the photographer isn’t doing a great job of it. The girls might look better in a one piece suit and learn to pose with more confident.
Wong Jing should open his own beauty contest and I’m so looking forward to see how his girls are.
I bet you it would out-gross 3D Sex and Zen to become the highest rated Miss HK contest. A lots of exposure. LOL!!
Chingmy Yau was never a beauty. Yuck! Wong Jing is right though. All of them are average in appearance. Nothing spectacular. Hope they are at least intelligent.
Sorry but Chingmy Yau was rumoured to have had plastic surgery during the 87 pageant so she had to withdraw because of that.
Does anyone else thing that Cynthia Tsang (pictured above) looks a bit like Sammi Cheng?
roxanne looks like miss piggy… her nose surgeon took too much fat from the tip side but not any on the actual side of her nose so it looks so weird. she should go and get her nose re-done.
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I don’t think Roxanne is very pretty. If she is, she is only cheap looking pretty, not the elegant and stylist type.
agree, not suitable for MHK
ok, who is this guy? n why should we care?
I can see that Roxanne will go far due to her connections so she definately has an edge in that area compared to everyone else…
definitely and she will most likely take the crown home.
don’t like her
not surprised if she take the crown with her connections already there
Whether it’s from the neck up or from the neck down, only a handful (literally all the fingers on ONE hand) pass the test. I think the public misinterpret Wong Jing’s comments. This is a beauty pageant after all and part of the bikini section is to reveal a contestant’s physical flaws. He’s not asking all the girls to have 36 size chest (tho it does help to in someway). But seriously, if my boobs are as unflattering as three quarters of the contestants, I would be embarrassed to enter the contest at all. Have these people not taken a photo of themselves in a bikini to check their flaws? Those stomach rolls should have been fixed before entering the contest.
Roxanne’s ribs are distracting and weirdly protruding! Is she purposely holding her breath?
wong jing is harsh, really harsh. so the boos are all that matter. it’s funny how hong kong people always ends a sentence with lor like ass. but then Chinese guys likes big boobs and 90% of Chinese girls re not big chested. Now with these comments, i’m sure all these girls will be thinking of a breast implants. although, he is right that these girls are not good looking at all.
It seems like a lot more people are agreeing with me about body figures in this article.
For those who say that Wong Jing is harsh, you’re right. He really is. But just because he’s harsh, doesn’t mean he isn’t telling the truth. Every comment he’s made is the TRUTH. Stop sticking up for these porkchops. Not to mention that a lot of them are there because of connections.
P.S. they’re all sucking in their huge fat guts in every picture.
http://img.ihktv.com/image/2012/06/114840jIq.jpg
don’t really know why she is in this contest
I dont know why both of them in the contest. They look like cheap check-out girls from Park-n-Shop.
Shame TVB, where did you get these girls from? The cages in Sham Shui Po?
Yes, the bikini photos of the contestants illustrate the lack of body conditioning and toning to prepare for this event. Problem with today’s youngsters is the lack of physical activity…too much social media, online and just sitting around to stay slim and trim. Worst yet is the MC (Nat Chan) who looks like plump chicken dressed in a clown’s suit in the photo. If TVB wanted a more professional event, they would have asked the MC to tone down his apparel and look. I think Ruco Chan would be a good choice. Otherwise, it is just another variety show.
Isn’t this rigged? No one really cares about the competition. They all end up being bad actresses on TVB shows. Linda Cheung springs to mind and she isn’t pretty and she is a terrible actress.
The New York, Canadian or Australian girls probably have a better chance, but they will go local anyway.
Looks like the pageant could be one finalist less… TVB still hasn’t asked Kayley to leave, but she’s pretty much accepted she won’t win after a “photo scandal”
http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/ent4358.html
The top three contestants are pretty average looking, but why send a “Director” to talk. Know we really know what’s behind a pageant. Dirty directors getting it on pageant girls. I guess he’s finally sick of the pageant sending average looking sugar babies over for sex. For god sake, send the director The big chest ones. These poor directors.. No more fun at work.
Wong Jing is done having sex with flat mirrors. Give the guy a pair of coconuts to satisfy. That’s dirty old rich man with power for you. Thanks for Old Jing.
Wong Jing’s comment degrades Asians! Shame on him! We should boycott all his movies!