You might say this was a wedding 21 years within the making.
Hong Kong singer-actor Julian Cheung, who tied the knot with Hong Kong actress Anita Yuen in 2001, has made up for the shortage of a wedding ceremony then by holding one on a Chinese reality show. The couple have a 15-year-old son, Morton.
Cheung, 51, is at present participating within the second season of Chinese reality show Call Me By Fire as one of many returning contestants from the primary season. The second season options 32 male artistes vying to be a part of a boy band.
For the third public efficiency which aired final Friday (Sept 30), Cheung was in the identical crew as Chinese actor Zhang Yunlong, Thai actor Mike Angelo and Chinese singer-actor Fan Shiqi.
They have been difficult a crew led by Taiwanese singer-actor Richie Jen and carried out the music Incomparable Beauty (2007).
(*21*) by means of the efficiency, Cheung stated: “I used to say that I hope to take a wedding photo with my wife when I am 60, but I thought, why should we wait? Today, I want to give her a wedding 10 years early.”
He then stated: “Anita Yuen, you are the incomparable beauty in my heart.”
Yuen, additionally 51, then appeared in a wedding robe on the different facet of the stage, preventing again her tears.
They have been initially strolling in direction of one another earlier than Cheung broke right into a run.
He was very emotional and couldn’t sing the primary line of the ballad after he reached his wife.
He then lifted her veil, put a symbolic ring on her finger and gave her a kiss on the urging of Fan.
The couple then bowed in direction of the spectators, as Yuen threw the bouquet in direction of them, whereas Cheung’s teammates flung wedding sweets into the viewers.
The efficiency touched many spectators in addition to different contestants similar to Taiwanese singer Shin and Taiwanese actor Talu Wang, who have been watching from backstage.
Though this isn’t the primary time that Cheung and Yuen have had a “make-up wedding”, Call Me By Fire trended on Chinese social media after the episode aired.
However, there have been some netizens who felt that Cheung mustn’t have combined a public efficiency with a private matter.
Some netizens believed the wedding ultimately helped the crew to high the ultimate rankings and beat Jen’s crew.
As a end result, Chinese actor Johnny Zhang and Chinese singer Hao Yun – two members of Jen’s crew – have been eradicated on this spherical, as they have been ranked the bottom within the “Most Favourite” listing chosen by followers. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network