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Eric Tsang

Not to be confused with Erick Tsang.
In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Tsang. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Eric Tsang and the Chinese-style name is Tsang Chi-wai.

Eric Tsang Chi-wai MH (Chinese: 曾志偉えら; born 14 April 1953) is a Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, and television host, best known for hosting the variety show Super Trio series on the Hong Kong television network TVB over 18 years.[1][2] He is the general manager of TVB.[3]

Eric Tsang
MH
曾志偉えら
Tsang in 2007
Born (1953-04-14) 14 April 1953 (age 71)
British Hong Kong
Occupation(s)Actor, director, producer, television host
Spouses
Wong Mei Hua
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(m. 1972; div. 1975)​
Rebecca Chu
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(m. 1989; died 2020)​
Children4, including Bowie and Derek
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese曾志偉えら
Simplified Chinese曾志伟
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZēng Zhìwěi
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingZang1 Zi3-wai5
Eric Tsang
Eric Tsang's hand print and autograph at the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong.
Traditional Chinese曾志偉えら
Simplified Chinese曾志伟
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZēng Zhìwěi
Wade–GilesTs'eng Chih-wei
IPA[tsʰə̌ŋ ʈʂɻ̩̂wèɪ]
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingZang1 zi3 wai5
IPA[tsɐ́ŋ tɕīːwɐ̬i]

Early life

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Tsang is a Hakka of Wuhua ancestry. His father, Tsang Kai-wing, was a former football coach and player, then served in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force from 1940 to 1972. He fled to Taiwan to escape from the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 1976 after being convicted of corruption and sentenced to three years in jail, while still free pending an appeal. In 2001, the Department of Justice seized his house in La Salle Road and later auctioned it for HK$4.35 million after 10 years of civil proceedings. Tsang Kai-wing died in Taiwan in 2011 with his son Eric and other family members around him.[4][5]

Tsang is a cousin of former Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Frederick Ma.[5]

In his youth, Tsang was a Hong Kong professional soccer player.[6]

Career

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Tsang began his show business career as a stuntman. Due to his popularity, Tsang is often the master of ceremonies (MC) in events organised by the Hong Kong television network TVB; due to him being the main host of the variety show Super Trio series, he was nicknamed "Prize Master" (獎門人じん),[7][8] his title in the show. In the 1980s and 1990s, he made parody comedy cassette tapes with songwriter, actor, and comedian Andrew Lam Man Chung. Tsang's singing vocal range is a tenor with no falsetto.[9]

He is known for being a short plump guy with a habit of speaking before thinking, often landing himself into hot water.[citation needed] His insults have led to him being assaulted by rumored triads over bad mouthing singer Joey Yung.[10] As an MC in the Miss Chinese International Pageant, he often favours contestants in Hong Kong.[citation needed]

Tsang has appeared as an actor in many successful Hong Kong films, gaining awards and nominations. Early on in his career, he was typecast as a bumbling, ugly, and crude sidekick, and it was not until encouragement from his daughter Bowie Tsang to stop doing comedic roles that he went on to star in a film with friend Alan Tam and was awarded a Hong Kong best actor award.[citation needed] Perry Lam, a cinema critic from Muse, wrote that Tsang 'brings directness, straightness and a lack of nonsense to whatever role he plays, and occasionally demonstrates an uncanny ability to enter the egoless states of which only the greatest of character actors like Robert Duvall are capable.'[11] Tsang has also been an occasional singer. Despite his high-pitched voice, he sings his parodies and theme songs to variety shows in a low-range tenor or high-range baritone of 2 octaves.[12]

In January 2021, Tsang was appointed TVB's deputy general manager (Non-Drama, Music Production & Programme) and special advisor to the executive committee and will be responsible for the variety show and infotainment program segment.[13] Tsang was involved in the Miss Hong Kong 2021 audition process.[14]

In September 2021, TVB management appointed Tsang as new general manager of content operation.

Personal life

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Tsang is a devout Buddhist, often leading other actors in efforts to raise money for Hong Kong Buddhist temples and events.[15]

Tsang's best friends are Natalis Chan and Alan Tam, who are also famous singers and actors from Hong Kong. Tsang has been close friends with Tam's family since childhood as their fathers were colleagues in the police force and played football together.

Tsang has been married twice. His first marriage was to Taiwanese actress Wang Mei Hua (王おう美華みか) in 1972 and they had two daughters, Bowie Tsang and Tsang Wing Yee. They divorced in 1975. Wang brought their eldest daughter back to Taiwan, while their younger daughter moved to Canada.

His second marriage was to Rebecca Chu (朱しゅ錫すず珍ちん) in 1989 and they had two sons, Derek Tsang, the director of Better Days, and Mark Tsang. Chu and their two sons later immigrated to Toronto, Canada without Tsang, who chose to stay in Hong Kong and they have had in a long-distance relationship since then.[16] On 21 April 2013, the Hong Kong 3 Weekly Magazine reported that Tsang's current wife was named Sung Lai Wah (宋そう麗華れいか) and they had lived apart for 20 years. This was dismissed by Bowie Tsang on the following day. In fact, Sung Lai Wah was the mother of Alan Kuo.[17] Chu died of cancer on 3 August 2020 at the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital.[18]

Sexual assault allegation

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In December 2013, Next Magazine published an anonymously produced interview with actress Yammie Lam where she said that she had been raped by two Hong Kong entertainment industry "big brothers" 20 years ago. According to Lam, one of the individuals had died not long ago, while the other individual is alive. She further claims that the second individual had raped her during a film production in Singapore. However, the names of the alleged perpetrators were censored out of the audio, which generated intense media speculation. It is not known who the interviewer was; in fact, the interviewer's voice shows evidence of having been digitally manipulated from a natural female voice to a male voice.[19][20] In January 2018, a mainland Chinese journalist uploaded what is purported to be an uncensored recording of Yammie Lam's 2013 interview. In the new 2018 clip, the interviewer now has a natural female voice, and the formerly censored portions implicate Alan Tang (deceased in 2011) and Eric Tsang as the two alleged rapists of Lam. Media analysts have endorsed the authenticity of the newly released video; they note that the 2018 video did not have noise removal or other post-production traces that are observed in the publicly released 2013 clip; hence, whoever leaked the video must have had direct access to the original unedited video.[21]

Two days after the release of the January 2018 video, the sexual offense claim against Eric Tsang was corroborated by Grace Han, a talent agent who formerly headed the Ford Models agency in Asia. Han further alleged that Eric Tsang had sexually assaulted more than one woman, and claims to know of a specific incident in which a group of male Hong Kong celebrities, led by Tsang, allegedly drugged seven female models in a Hong Kong karaoke bar and raped six of them, while one girl escaped after she noticed the drugging.[22][23] Han's Weibo post has since been deleted.[24]

Tsang rejected the authenticity of the uploaded video and denied Grace Han's allegation.[25] A week after the allegations surfaced, Tsang filed a defamation lawsuit against Grace Han in the Hong Kong High Court, arranged for a press event, and announced that "punishment" is needed. Tsang further claimed to the media that he had already won a defamation lawsuit in 2006 on similar grounds, but independent media sources have not been able to corroborate this claim.[22][23]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ http://www.meizhou.cn/news/1206/08/12060800068.html Archived 2015-11-07 at the Wayback Machine Eric Tsang's ancestry, 8 June 2012
  2. ^ "Eric Tsang". chinesemov.com. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
  3. ^ 趙ちょう允まこと琳 (2021-09-27). "曾志偉えら上うえ任つとむ短たん短たん八はち個月かげつ再さい升ます職しょく 獲えTVB委任いにん做總經理けいり". 香港ほんこん01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  4. ^ Central Station (31 August 2009). "The worst of times for Fred Ma". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04.
  5. ^ a b Tsang Kai-wing dies aged 94 after 35 years as corruption fugitive, SCMP, Danny Mok, 19 Jan 2011
  6. ^ "出身しゅっしん足あし球だま世よ家か踢球比ひ演えんじ戏专业 曾志伟：最さい爱梅西にし-搜さがせ狐きつね体育たいいく". 2010.sohu.com. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  7. ^ "曾志伟父亲将移うつり灵香港ほんこん 涉わたる贪污潜せん逃台湾わん36年ねん_影かげ音おん娱乐_新しん浪なみ网". ent.sina.com.cn. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  8. ^ "TVB收おさむ视率扑街？！掌てのひら门人曾志伟强势回归救市し！-新しん闻频道どう-手て机つくえ搜さがせ狐きつね". m.sohu.com. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  9. ^ 冇有線せん電でん台だい -曾志伟 林はやし敏さとし驄 （完かん整せい版ばん）, archived from the original on 2021-12-13, retrieved 2021-10-27
  10. ^ "揭秘曾志伟昔日び嘲あざけ讽容祖そ儿长相しょう丑うし遭暴打だ内幕うちまく". www.sohu.com. Retrieved 2021-12-29.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ Lam, Perry (April 2008). "'Little big man'". Muse Magazine (15): 94.
  12. ^ [Eric Tsang singing Love of My Life with Alan Tam and Hacken Lee (dropped to D major key)]
  13. ^ "Actors take on senior roles at TVB". The Standard. 2021-01-22
  14. ^ "Miss Hong Kong Pageant Location Shoot May Happen In Singapore, Says TVB Deputy GM Eric Tsang". TODAYonline. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  15. ^ 组图：娱乐圈けん明星みょうじょう信しんじ佛ふつ知ち多少たしょう. QQ News (in Chinese). 27 February 2007. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  16. ^ "Eric Tsang's family comes second". Retrieved 2018-09-07.
  17. ^ "曾志偉えら與あずか妻つま感情かんじょう好こう得とく很". tw.news.yahoo.com (in Chinese). 21 April 2013. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  18. ^ sina_mobile (2020-08-06). "曾志伟现任にん妻子さいし朱しゅ锡珍去さ世よ，为何港みなと媒なかだち说她的てき名字みょうじ叫さけべ宋そう丽华？". k.sina.cn. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  19. ^ JayneStars – Admitted Raped by entertainment "Big Brother"
  20. ^ "Hong Kong Star Eric Tsang Denies Rape Allegations". 11 January 2018.
  21. ^ BBC China, 2018 (traditional Chinese)
  22. ^ a b Sina China, 2018 (simplified Chinese)
  23. ^ a b Variety, 2018 (English)
  24. ^ "被ひ指ゆび性せい侵おかせ女じょ星ほし 曾志伟：要よう让造谣者付づけ出で代だい价". BBC News 中ちゅう文ぶん (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  25. ^ 黃き梓あずさ恒ひさし (2018-01-17). "曾志偉えら開ひらき記き招否認ひにん曾性侵おかせ：再さい忍にん只ただ會かい令れい網もう絡からま暴力ぼうりょく愈いよいよ來き愈いよいよ嚴重げんじゅう". 香港ほんこん01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  26. ^ Kil, Sonia (June 15, 2016). "Korea's CJ Entertainment Announces China Production Lineup". Variety. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
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