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AsiaOne
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- AsiaOne
Tay Ying holds 'guo da li' ceremony, jokes she's 'sold', Entertainment News
After four years of dating, local actress Tay Ying and celebrity chef Wu Sihan are just one month away from their wedding. In an Instagram post uploaded today (May 22), the couple showed their 'guo da li' (betrothal) ceremony, with Tay Ying, 29, captioning the post "Sold". In the pictures, boxes of mandarin oranges, cakes with the couple's names, bottles of alcohol and even a pair of white heels can be seen. In 'guo da li' ceremonies, the groom's family presents a variety of gifts to the bride's family as a token of gratitude for raising their daughter and to show his sincerity in marrying her. The bride's family reciprocates the groom's gesture and will share the good fortune by returning a portion of the gifts. In one of the images, Sihan, 33, and Tay Ying's actor father Zheng Geping are seen exchanging a red packet, with her actress mother Hong Huifang posing for the picture as well. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tay Ying 郑颖 (@tayying_) Tay Ying's younger brother Calvert is seen in another picture with Sihan, playfully snatching her away. In January 2024, Tay Ying and Sihan went Instagram-official and revealed that they had been dating since 2021. They announced their engagement on March 20, with the wedding to take place sometime this June. The wedding will reportedly be hosted by radio station Yes 933 DJs Hazelle Teo and Zhu Zeliang, while the bridesmaids and groomsmen are the couple's non-celebrity friends. [[nid:718218]]
CNA
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CNA
Emerald Hill parody by Mark Lee, Dennis Chew and Marcus Chin cracks up original actors
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the DJs of Love 972's The Breakfast Quartet have just paid some side-splitting tributes to the Chinese drama Emerald Hill - The Little Nonya Story, which aired its last episode on Netflix on Apr 21. The DJs – Mark Lee, Dennis Chew and Marcus Chin, minus Chen Biyu – donned sarong kebayas and makeup for a two-episode parody titled Pearl Hill on Instagram. Lee played the protagonist Zhang Xinniang, while Chew assumed the villainous role of Zhang Anna and Xinniang's nemesis. Meanwhile, Chin slipped into beaded slippers for the matriarchal role of Liu Xiuniang. Like the convoluted relations central to the Zhang family's drama, the parody's plot centred around betrayals, blackmail and shock betrothals that cleverly plugged their sister stations such as Yes 933 and Capital 958, and their respective DJs. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mediacorp LOVE 972 (@love972fm) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mediacorp LOVE 972 (@love972fm) In the first episode posted on Apr 15, Lee's Xinniang was seen berating Chew's Anna for pursuing his heart's desire by guest-DJ-ing with Yes 933 on Apr 1, which was where Chew had his radio career start in real life. 'Don't forget, you now belong to 972!' lectured Lee, who also accused Chew of shamelessly crushing on Yes 933's DJ Zhong Kunhua. Of course, you can't have drama without a good, ol-fashioned love triangle. In the second episode on Apr 21, Lee and Chew were pitted against each other over Zuye, the love interest of Xinniang and Anna in Emerald Hill – until Chin broke up the fight with some shocking news. 'I have settled your betrothals,' Chin proclaimed. Pointing at Chew, Chin announced he was to marry 958's Pan Jia Biao. 'And you, you will marry 958's Qiu Sheng Yang,' he said to Lee – at which point, the DJs broke character and guffawed. The cross-dressing hosts also did not waste the opportunity to poke fun at each other. Lee marched into one episode and called Chew 'Ne Zha', the character in the hit Chinese animation, who is known for his double-bun hair style. Chin's matriarch was also the butt of their jokes with Lee's and Chew's characters sucking up to their 'neo' with a hilarious rhyme that played on his 'perky posterior'. Fans of Emerald Hill will also recognise the series' slow-motion opening sequence set to Kit Chan's Flowers Falling Like Rain. Except in the parody, the reverie is broken by Chin's sharp retort: 'Don't know how to close the door ah?'. Emerald Hill's original actors such as Tasha Low, Chantalle Ng, Jesseca Liu, Romeo Tan and Zhang Zetong have reacted with laughing emojis.
