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Long time no see! Sharon Au, Li Nanxing, Yvonne Lim and others return to Star Awards stage , Entertainment News
In celebration of the 30th edition of the Star Awards in Singapore, artistes who haven't been seen at the ceremony for years have been popping up and surprising us at the July 6 show.
Scroll down for the familiar faces. Li Nanxing
Actor Li Nanxing, for one, is attending the awards show for the first time in a decade.
"I saw a lot of old colleagues, I'll have to catch up with them later. We rarely see each other because we're all busy with our own schedules," the 60-year-old said on the red carpet.
In celebration of his 40 years in showbiz, he shared that he'll be holding a fanmeet in Shanghai, with an estimated 800 fans.
Nanxing is currently filming Mediacorp's first dystopian-thriller series The Leftovers. Yvonne Lim
Yvonne Lim walked down the red carpet with her husband and two kids.
In a backstage interview, she admitted feeling nervous as she hasn't been on stage for 10 years.
The 48-year-old recently moved back to Singapore with husband and former boy band member Alex Tien, son Alex Junior (AJ) and daughter Alexa. They had resided in Taiwan for 10 years.
"But with my family with me, I feel much more assured. Because as a mother, I have to focus my attention on my kids, and I forget about myself, and my stress," she added.
Yvonne also cried when her kids expressed their love for her and called her "the prettiest". Dasmond Koh
Known as the host of long-running variety series The Sheng Siong Show these days, Dasmond Koh shared the limelight much more in the past.
He last received a Top 10 Most Popular Male Artiste Award in 2019, then earned the All-Time Favourite Artiste Award in 2021.
Dasmond is nowadays busier as the CEO of Noontalk Media, which is organising the first Golden Singa Awards to be presented in Singapore in December. Sharon Au
Sharon Au flew in from France just for the Star Awards.
The 49-year-old, who has been based in Paris since 2018, landed in Singapore on July 3.
"Just touched down in Singapore - where the air is 100 per cent humidity, and 200 per cent nostalgia. From cobblestones and croissants to orchids and Kkaya toasts.
"The gowns hung like royalty in the plane closet. The heels? Emotionally unstable. Now let's make some memories. #StarAwards30 here we go," she wrote in an Instagram post on the same day. View this post on Instagram
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Singapore-based Thai host Pornsak Prajakwit last appeared at the Star Awards in 2019 where he won a Top 10 Most Popular Male Artiste trophy.
Since then, he had been more regularly seen holding sales livestreams elsewhere.
He showed up in a suit today to receive his All-Time Favourite Artiste Award. Mark Lee
Actor-comedian Mark Lee last won Top 10 Most Popular Male Artiste in 2009 and All Time Favourite Artiste in 2010.
He is currently one of the four DJs in Love 972's The Breakfast Quartet, which won Best Radio Programme for four years consecutively from 2021 to 2024.
Though they were left out of the Best Audio Personality nominations this time, Mark, 56, remained objective: "I feel that the main reason for us not being nominated is because the judges have different preferences for the styles that each DJ presents.
"It could be a coincidence that this year's judges are a little 'stricter', so 'innocent and cute' DJs like us are not nominated. But it's okay, because the judges are different every year."
On whether he feels pressured to continue winning the Best Radio Programme award this year, Mark told AsiaOne he won't feel affected.
"If we can receive it for another year, it's the best, but even if we don't get it this year, it's okay also. Most importantly, it's whether the judges like it or not, because the judges are different every year. If we are awarded again this year, then 'Oh dear, we are the first again!'"
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