Actor Shane Pow's sub-$100 Star Awards 2025 get-up
Actor Shane Pow spent less than $100 on his Taobao outfit for Star Awards 2025.
SINGAPORE – Amid the glitz and glamour on the Star Awards 2025 red carpet on July 6, actor Shane Pow opted for a low-cost option.
In his Instagram post on July 7, he wrote: 'Took a risk with no plan B when I bought my outfit from Taobao. I'm glad it worked out!'
The video begins with Pow, 34, posing the question: 'Would you wear a $100 Taobao outfit to a red carpet?' He is then seen opening a parcel, which contained three packages. Set to the Star Awards theme song, the sped-up video shows the star trying on his look.
He also added a clip of him on the red carpet with fellow local celebrities Ben Yeo, Jeffrey Xu, Jeremy Chan and Lee Teng. They were all dressed in black.
At the end of the video, Pow reveals how much his outfit cost. The jacket was $41.77, the shoes were $28.29 and the pants $26.61. The grand total: $96.67.
Singapore-based Taiwanese actress and host Kate Pang commented: 'A handsome guy will look good in anything he wears.'
Radio DJ Joakim Gomez wrote: 'The backstory we all needed.'
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Pow was nominated for the BYD Favourite Male Character Award for playing a member of the Sexual Offence Department in Unforgivable. The award went to Romeo Tan for Mr Zhou's Ghost Stories @ Job Haunting III.
Pow was a full-time artiste with Mediacorp before he was convicted of drink-driving in 2021.
He currently has three Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes awards. He has been nominated twice for Best Supporting Actor, in 2018 and 2019, but did not win.
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