Chapter 869: More than a Beauty Pageant [Three Watches]
In order to avoid the upcoming Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Miss Hong Kong competition was advanced by a month as a whole.
During this period, Chen Miaoying, who was the favorite to win the championship, announced her retirement, and then the news of the first two Miss Hong Kong champions successively chatting with male stars in the circle undoubtedly attracted many people's attention to the Miss Hong Kong competition.
At 8 p.m. on the last Sunday of June, the city-wide beauty pageant final officially kicked off at the Hung Hom Coliseum.
Although at this time of year, complaining about Sister Hong Kong has become a routine topic for Hong Kong people, but on the day of the finals, everyone will still stay in front of the TV with great interest, watching swimsuits and beautiful legs, watching huge waves, and watching the twelve selected beauties fight wits and beauty.
Of course, the highlight of this year's Miss Hong Kong finals is not only on the stage, but also on the judges' bench.
Li Jiaxin, who was wearing a peacock blue suspender dress and revealing her sexy back, reappeared at the finals of Miss Hong Kong after an interval of 4 years, but her identity this time has changed from a participating beauty to a judge in the audience.
Also attracting attention is Zhu Lingling, who appeared on the judges' bench with her husband Huo Zhenting, and Zhu Lingling, who was wearing an orange evening dress, has not lost her noble temperament.
Two generations of the most beautiful Hong Kong sisters compete on the same stage, such a grand occasion has never appeared in the previous Hong Kong sister competitions, and some media even asserted before that in a few years, the finals of Miss Hong Kong will definitely be more interesting off the stage than on the stage.
Unfortunately, the organizers did not arrange Li Jiaxin and Zhu Lingling to sit together, and among the two of them were Huo Zhenting and Lin Youlun.
The only time Lin Youlun and the Hong Kong Huo family crossed paths can be traced back to the 86 Hong Kong industrial and commercial delegation during their visit to the north, when Lin Youlun and Fok Zhenting's father Fok Yingdong were both members of the delegation. At that time, there were several encounters.
The Huo family is very attentive in helping the mainland develop its sports industry. In order to get closer to the mainland government. He did not hesitate to donate a lot of money to the mainland, and Lin Youlun and the mainland side were more of a kind of cooperation.
Although in the statements of the mainland official media, the Huo family is often referred to as the Zhong. A close friend of the Communist Party, and Lin Youlun is just a patriotic businessman, but the Huo family knows very well from top to bottom that in the eyes of the central government, Lin Youlun's status is far more important than them.
Over the years, Lin Youlun has been in charge of the Hong Kong film industry, and at the same time has continued to expand Hong Kong films internationally. The two sides have common interests on the issue of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, Lin Youlun needs the mainland's market to open to Hong Kong, and the mainland needs the existence of people like Lin Youlun to help dispel Hong Kong society's resistance to the return.
In contrast, the Huo family took the initiative to get up like this, but it would not be taken very seriously by the mainland government.
Again. Lin Youlun's net worth at the moment is not much lost to the Huo family, and he has created a huge foundation from scratch in ten years. This in itself is a legend that has attracted the attention of many wealthy clubs in Hong Kong.
The influence of the Huo family is only limited to Hong Kong, in contrast, Lin Youlun continues to use one Hong Kong movie after another to gain international prestige, and his influence continues to expand, and it is easy to distinguish which is more important.
Before the official start of the finals, the live broadcast camera swept over the judges' bench and recorded such a strange scene: Huo Zhenting, who is nearly 20 years older than Lin Youlun, actually took the initiative to talk to Lin Youlun, and Lin Youlun was obviously not very interested in Huo Zhenting, and he didn't want to talk to him much.
This footage did not appear in the live broadcast, otherwise there would definitely be a lively discussion in the newspapers tomorrow.
This is not Lin Youlun's arrogance, if Huo Yingdong was sitting next to him, Lin Youlun might still have some common topics with him, but if it was Huo Zhenting, Lin Youlun really felt that there was nothing to talk about with him.
After casually dealing with Huo Zhenting's two sentences, Lin Youlun turned his head to the other side, patted Li Jiaxin's arm gently, and motioned for her to change positions with Cheng Long on the side.
"Mr. Lin, are you looking for me?"
Cheng Long and Li Jiaxin exchanged seats and sat down, the expression on his face was very relaxed, he thought that Lin Youlun was just looking for him to come over and chat casually.
"Aaron, tonight's is the twelve beauties, which one are you most optimistic about?"
"In my opinion, Sister Hong Kong has never been a simple beauty pageant, just like Miss Li, and Mrs. Huo over there, it must be both wisdom and beauty, so I think Mo Kexin, who has a university degree, should be the most suitable beauty to be the champion this year."
Cheng Long not only said his own point of view, but also quietly praised Li Jiaxin and Zhu Lingling by the way, Huo Zhenting couldn't help but nod after listening to it, but Lin Youlun frowned.
"Can education and wisdom be equated?"
"In general, this is the ......"
As soon as Cheng Long said this, he suddenly realized a very bad situation, Lin Youlun could achieve today's results without going to college, and he pursued a highly educated beauty like this, did he inadvertently make Lin Youlun unhappy.
Thinking of this, Cheng Long immediately changed his words, "Of course, there are special circumstances, and they can't be generalized. ”
Huo Zhenting was about to interject to express different opinions, but when he saw that Lin Youlun and Cheng Long were a little wrong, and then contacted Lin Youlun's background, he suddenly chose to shut up smartly.
"Sister Hong Kong is first and foremost a beauty pageant, and the slogan of paying equal attention to wisdom and beauty is also based on this...... I mean, Aaron, you should understand. ”
After hearing these words, Cheng Long didn't understand that Lin Youlun must have had a plan in his heart about the champion of this Hong Kong sister, and Mo Kexin, who he was optimistic about before, was definitely not the person Lin Youlun chose.
"Mr. Lin, don't worry, I understand what you mean."
Cheng Long nodded, and had secretly decided in his heart that he must pay more attention to Lin Youlun's movements after the game starts.
He waited for a while, and saw that Lin Youlun had no intention of continuing to chat, so he and Li Jiaxin changed their seats again.
As soon as Cheng Long left, Huo Zhenting immediately turned his head over, "Mr. Lin, I don't know who you are most optimistic about this time?" ”
Huo Zhenting's question was not a whim, he heard the conversation between Lin Youlun and Cheng Long just now, and felt that this was an opportunity to befriend Lin Youlun.
"What does Huo Sheng think?" Lin Youlun asked quietly.
Huo Zhenting smiled and waved his hand, "Mr. Lin has more say in this regard, so I won't do anything about it." ”
Lin Youlun already understood what Huo Zhenting meant, and said with a slight smile: "No. 15 Guo Keying is good, I don't know what Huo Sheng thinks?" ”
Huo Zhenting nodded tacitly, and had already written down the name in his heart.
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Like last year, the opening of the Miss Hong Kong finals was also a lively song and dance performance, but this time it was not the Four Heavenly Kings who came, but the Little Tigers from Taiwan and the Little Whirlwind Lin Zhiying.
In the past two years, Chinese songs have shown signs of resurgence in Hong Kong, and the Little Tigers and Lin Zhiying have a lot of fans here, especially some time ago, Hong Kong TVB broadcast "Meteor Garden" starring the Little Tigers and Jin Chengwu, which caused a lot of repercussions among young audiences.
Although the average viewership of this TV series is only a little more than 30%, the advertising sponsorship has made TVB a lot of money.
Of course, arranging Lin Zhiying and the Little Tigers as the guest performers in the finals of Miss Hong Kong also shows to some extent the determination of the organizers of Miss Hong Kong to carry out reforms, and they hope to use such changes to attract more young audiences to pay attention to the Miss Hong Kong competition.
At the end of the song and dance performance, twelve beauties appeared on both sides of the stage wearing swimsuits, and the three emcees Zeng Zhiwei, Chen Xinjian, and Wu Junru walked out of the middle of the stage.
Zeng Zhiwei picked up the microphone and began to ridicule as soon as he spoke: "According to past practice, at this time, we should introduce the 5 judges of tonight's finals, but tonight's situation is special, just now I saw that the lens of the live broadcast camera is always aimed at the audience, so I believe everyone already knows who the judges are." ”
Chen Xinjian reminded on the side: "You cut corners like this, be careful of being deducted from your salary when you turn around!" ”
"That's right, although everyone is familiar with the five judges, we still have to make an introduction, otherwise it will seem very informal." Wu Junru's position should be Shen Lixia's, but because Shen Lixia is now doing a show for ATV, of course it is impossible for the wireless side to invite her to host the Hong Kong sister beauty pageant finals, so she was temporarily replaced by Wu Junru.
"Then first of all, I would like to introduce to you the chief judge of tonight's finals, Mr. Lin Youlun!" As soon as Zeng Zhiwei raised his hand, the camera of the live broadcast machine and the eyes of the audience all pointed to the judges' seat.
Lin Youlun stood up and waved to the audience, and he was rewarded with a warm applause.
After Lin Youlun sat down, the three emcees then introduced Huo Zhenting, Cheng Long, Zhu Lingling and Li Jiaxin in turn, and the two generations of the most beautiful Hong Kong sisters appeared on the judges' bench, which triggered the warmest applause from the opening to the present.
When it was the turn of No. 15 Guo Keying, Huo Zhenting paid special attention to the contestant a few times, and then turned his head to Zhu Lingling to say a few words.
Then when Mo Kexin was introduced, Cheng Long's eyelids jumped, and he couldn't help but glance at Lin Youlun with the corner of his eye, but he didn't see anything abnormal, and he was completely relieved in his heart.
After all the beauties were introduced, it was followed by the first round of talent show, during which the judges were free to ask questions about the beauties they were interested in, and when it was Guo Keying's turn, Li Jiaxin and Zhu Lingling both invariably signaled to the emcee that they had questions to ask.
Li Jiaxin didn't expect that Zhu Lingling would choose the same beauty as her to ask questions, and out of politeness, she gave up this opportunity to ask questions to Zhu Lingling, who was a senior. (To be continued......)