Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Guess Who

End of the year quiz for y'all. Give me your answers as comments. I confess I don't have the answers to all these questions so if any of you can answer all these questions...you are truly 八卦王/后.

1) One up and coming local actor who has a middle-aged plastic surgeon boyfriend living in the East of Singapore.

2) An unmarried 30-something Mediacorp actor and a famous blogger are "special" buddies.

3) A certain Ah-Jie became a vegetarian after she broke up with her former bf, also a local actor.

4) A local actress went into a boutique, took some clothes off the shelf and asked to charge it to the owner's account. Unfortunately, the staff member recognised the actress and called the owner's wife to ask what to do. The owner's wife came storming into the boutique and gave the actress a tight slap. From then on, the actress was never seen shopping in that particular chain of boutiques.

5) A certain actress with dangerous curves was known to be an SPG before she met her current boyfriend.

6) A certain 30-something year old MediaCorp actress was known to have a crush on a fellow actor (who is now married). She was also 'romantically involved' with at least 2 other co-stars and was rumoured to be the cause of marital problems between one of them and his wife.

7) A very popular Chinese local female singer is really lesbian.

8) A showbiz couple used to go out on dates in public despite both being very well-known. They were spotted at Holland Village, Plaza Singapura, the Botanic Gardens, restaurants along Kim Seng Road, Zouk and other Mohammad Sultan bars, even though the actress is well known for disliking the partying life.

9) An up-and-coming actor was rumoured to have molested several female co-stars on the set of a serial some time back.

10) A Hongkong actor who came to Singapore to star in a serial famously pissed off the cast, including the lead actress, because of his moody, eccentric and egotistic ways. However, when interviewed, the lead actress politely said "working with ___ was fine, we got along well".

11) A top Singaporean actress who starred in a movie was embarrassed because her foreign co-star gave her the brush-off and ignored her during a high-profile awards ceremony in Singapore.

12) An Ah Jie was scheduled to attend a talkshow by an international Singaporean diva, but because her filming schedule was extended, she came to the talkshow late, only to be told off by the diva. When the filming of the show ended, the Ah Jie was spotted teary-eyed backstage.

13) A certain actress with a wholesome image was formerly an anti-smoking campaign ambassador. However, rumour had it that she smoked.

14) A certain young actress is not able to manage her feelings for her male co-stars. She switched to hosting recently.

15) A very elderly male veteran actor was recently charged with using his mobile phone while driving.

16) A MediaCorp male host is rumoured to be bisexual.

17) Two beautiful MediaCorp actresses competed for a plum role in a drama serial. One of them got it. The other actress got a supporting role, but then rejected it before costume fitting. Rumours flew that she wasn't happy playing second fiddle to the first actress.

18) An award-winning local actress slept with a Hongkong TV producer.

19) Fann Wong mentioned that when she filmed her first TCS drama Dreams Come True in 1994, an actress sneered at her and said, "with your type of acting, you'll never make it".

20) A hunky actor starred in a Hongkong film in which he played a gay character. He acted as another gay in a Singapore-Hongkong movie co-production. Who is he?

21) This travelogue host reportedly seduced the boyfriend of a local popular then-pop star, then had a foreign boyfriend for a while before attaching herself to a hunky actor, who is a close friend of the pop star mentioned above. Because of this, the pop star's friendship with the hunky actor kinda thinned out.

22) A MediaCorp actor was accused of molesting a Hongkong actress. It turned out that the Hongkong actress's publicist concocted the rumour.

23) A local actress who endorsed a slimming pill product was embarrassed one day during filming, when the white skirt she wore had oil stains leaking from her bum.

24) A very slim actress has a well-known weakness for Snickers chocolate bars. Her voracious appetite for Snickers is well-known despite the fact that she's incredibly slim-waisted.

25) A Singaporean pop star was accused of being rude to a camera shop owner in Far East Plaza.

26) A Singapore pop singer who released 3 albums is unpopular among her colleagues because she's deemed to be fake.

27) There is a middle-aged actor who had a reputation for being 'close' to young actresses on the set, until about 10 years ago, when this new actress screamed blue murder and complained to the top management.

28) A local actress who was filming in Taiwan went to a massage shop and nearly got 'molested'.

29) A local actress has the habit of plying reporters with gifts from her fans.

30) A Channel NewsAsia female host is well known for her bad temper and constant bitching on the set.

31) An outspoken actress who once acted in a Hollywood movie quarrelled with an international star in Singapore.

32) An actress and actor fell in love on the set, but the actor married someone else. On their wedding day, the actress left Singapore so as to avoid his wedding dinner. Subsequently, the couple collaborated successfully in a number of popular serials, and caused the wife of the actor to become consumed with jealousy. This resulted in a very public breakup.

33) A local actress recently went to China to shoot a drama serial. When she was at the ulu filming city, the first thing she said was, "Where is this godforsaken place?" She refused to mix with the cast and crew from China, Hongkong and Taiwan, and shut herself in her room. Other than filming, she refused to talk to anyone except the director. Her co-stars ignored her.

34) A certain local band wrote a song named after a popular local actress, which criticised her command of the English language and hinted that her lifestyle contributed to the rise of materialism among her fans.

35) "The most aggressive female actress in MediaCorp". There's only one.

36) A certain veteran actor had to sleep on the couch after his wife kicked him out of bed for posing with a beauty queen in a series of advertisements.

37) An actress who was shopping at a bookshop in Takashimaya was rude to a sales cashier and this male cashier was so pissed off, he slammed her change on the table even though she had her hands outstretched to receive it. This actress gave him a killer stare and stalked off with her actor boyfriend.

38) A local female singer was rumoured to have slept around with many men.

Happy Guessing!