The Annual TVB Anniversary Awards Ceremony was held at TVB City
in Tseung Kwan O yesterday evening and after much speculation over
the past few weeks as to who would take the Best Actress and Best
Actor awards, Charmaine Sheh, Myolie Wu, Kevin Cheng and Joe Ma
were the favourites for the evening. The evening belonged to
Charmaine though, who took both the Best Actress and the My
Favourite TV Character awards, proving her worth after nine years
in showbiz, whilst 'Son of TVB' Kevin beat Joe to the top spot,
taking Best Actor.
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Sixteen awards were handed out on the night and Kevin took the
coveted Best Actor award for his leading role in Under the
Canopy of Love. In his acceptance speech, he thanked his
co-star Niki Chow and when she heard this she couldn't hold back
her emotions as her tears started to flow. Kevin spoke about how
his mother has supported him endlessly over the last 13 years and
started to cry as he said: "Without the support from my mother, I
don't know if I could have hung on until today. Now I can say to my
mother - your son has not entered the wrong industry." He says that
for those people who are going through difficult times, keep on
working hard and your dreams really can come true!
Charmaine won her awards for her roles in Maidens' Vow
and when her first award for Favourite TV Character was announced,
she seemed a little unhappy when she was accepting the award.
Charmaine only showed her joy when her name was announced as Best
Actress by Roger Kwok and she cupped her face and cried out with
emotion as her co-star Joe Ma went on stage to give her a hug. As
she cried, she gave her acceptance speech, saying: "I really though
that after receiving the award earlier that I would not have the
chance to win this one!" She indicates that to go from being
'squeaky chicken voice' and being unable to act to her achievement
today makes her very happy and she has not let her family down. She
adds: "I feel faint! I will continue to work hard and will remember
today."
After Charmaine's first award was announched, Carol Cheng
immediately interviewed Myolie, asking if she was relieved by this
and Myolie replied awkwardly: "I am afraid I won't win anything at
all! I don't know." Carol continued pushing and asking Myolie what
her chances were of taking the Best Actress award, but Myolie could
only say: "I have very mixed feelings at the moment." Carol
commented that Myolie was not being very truthful, but to be fair,
she moved her questions onto the other nominees for Best Actress,
making Gigi Lai quite embarrassed. Asked later about going home
empty handed, Myolie was very reflective: "I was afraid of winning
an award because I don't feel I deserve one yet. I felt the result
was very reasonable. I am sorry if I disappoint my fans who have
supported me, I will try again next year."
Despite having injured his eye filming for a series earlier,
Steven Ma beat stiff competition to take the My Favourite Male TV
Character Award for his role in Safe Guards. He says that
in the past he has been seen as a 'dark horse' and he sees his
accident with a horse earlier as a good omen. Steven admits that he
is very excited and happy, because he has had a series nominated
every year, but he has never won anything. This award gives him
courage and motivation and it is very important to him, so he is
very pleased with his achievement. Asked about his injury, Steven
indicates he still cannot move his eyeball and it is still very
painful. As the blood from his injured eye has been flowing into
his nose and throat, Steven indicates he has been swallowing his
own blood and he laughs that every scene is made with blood, sweat
and tears.
Kenneth Ma and Linda Chung were named as the Most Improved
Artistes this year and when Kenneth heard the result from
presentation guest Chapman To, he looked surprised and shocked. His
voice was quaking as he accepted his award and he indicated that he
was very nervous, not about winning the award but about having to
dance on stage later. He also said out of the blue: "Tonight is my
cousin's wedding banquet, but I can't be there, so I wish him and
his wife a happy life together." He said a special thank you to his
earlier co-star Roger Kwok. Later on in the press interviews,
Kenneth continued to stutter and he was joked as being "possessed
by Woo Fung." He says that to win an award is a bonus and he is
extremely happy.
Linda on the other hand was far calmer as she accepted her
award, which she had been nominated three times for her roles in
three different series. Afterwards, she was a little teary during
the press interviews, because she never realised she would receive
an award as soon as she had sat down and she didn't know what she
was doing on the stage. She also smiles that she is very clumsy and
forgetful, so after two and a half years in the industry, she is
thankful to the company for giving her so many opportunities and to
win an award is a huge encouragement. The happiest thing for her
was that her parents had flown over especially from Canada to see
her and she wanted to see them as soon as possible after the show
to share her elation.
With his huge rise in popualarity following The Dance of
Passion, Kenny Wong took the award for Best Supporting Actor
after ten years in the background and he gave special thanks to Ada
Choi, Charmaine Sheh and Maggie Siu. He also thanked the media and
indicated he would keep the award at his home. He did mention that
he had forgotten to thank Virginia Lok on the stage because he was
too nervous. After receiving the Best Supporting Actress award for
her role in Always Ready, Shirley Yeung thanked her
manager and was a little teary. She admitted that the other more
senior artistes all did a really good job, so she never imagined
that she would receive this award, but she felt that playing a
disabled person was a meaningful experience. She reveals that she
once met a disabled person who indicated their story was very
similar to her character's and she hopes to be able to try more
characters that are as challenging. Will she be celebrating with
her boyfriend? She says maybe, or she might spend the evening at
home with her dogs. As for forgetting to thank her boyfriend on the
stage, she smiles that she forgot on the stage and she forgot off
the stage too.
With its high ratings, Beautiful Cooking was the
expectant winner for the Best Variety Show and Sammy Leung took the
Best Host Award for his game show 15/16. As Sammy was
working on his radio show over at CRHK, TVB sent someone over to
present him with his award live on air and he was very surprised.
He said a special thank you to Mr Stephen Chan for supporting him
during the unhappy times.
Asked if she would be celebrating with rumoured boyfriend Benny
Chan, Charmaine indicated that she would celebrate with her
friends. Benny was asked how he felt about Charmaine winning two
awards, but he was not there to watch the ceremony because he had
gone out with friends and he said with surprise: "Really? I never
would have imagined that! The feeling is great and I am very proud
of her."?
(Asianfanatics.net via CRI November 11, 2006)
