Tuesday April 22, 2008 Hong Kong The first auditions for the local recruitment of contestants for the Miss Hong Kong 2008 Pageant took place today at TVB City, where a total of 173 girls met the producers and executives for the first time. The quality of contestants this year was not particularly high, with most of them on the skinny side and only a handful who stood out as pretty. As in previous years, there was a mixture of the strange and delusional, with some girls so reluctant to show their faces that they were covering them up with scarfs and shades. The more memorable contestants were those who bore resemblance to celebrities, such as Kary Ng (吳雨霏), Joyce Cheng (鄭欣宜) and Gaile Lok (樂基兒). The Joyce-lookalike appeared to fall over when she was avoiding the press, but when she arrived at TVB City, she still smiled and said she was fine. Under instruction from the organisers, the girls did not say much to the waiting press and as they had to model their swimwear, many of the girls had obviously worn their swimwear underneath their dresses and skirts. When the reporters pointed out to one of the girls that her bikini bottom was sticking out from her jeans, she went on to yank her trousers up in full view of everyone. One casual looking contestant, who had returned from overseas to take part did not do much for the pageant's reputation by displaying what seemed to be a reversed "V" gesture as she posed for photographs. Dressed in a t-shirt, shorts and plastic sunglasses, she looked like she was on her way to a beach party rather than a beauty contest. TVB executive Ho Lai Chuen (何麗全) was a member of the judging panel and he revealed that over 1000 applications had been received this year and from the girls that they would audition, only 14 of them would make it through the finals. 30 girls will first be selected for a panel selection, where eight finalists will be selected. The remaining places will go to those who manage to win additional challenges that will be set. Asked if he felt that the quality of contestants this year was poor, Mr Ho said supportively the he did not find this was the case and he was also pleased that so many contestants from the UK, America and Germany were taking part. He also pointed out that there were also many university graduates among the applicants. Mr Ho also revealed that the location shoot this year will take place in America and filming will begin in May. The finals will be held on 19 July at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wanchai. credits: batgwa.
their all not very pretty...but really...whats the girl on the lower left doing there.... GO HOME... ooh wait...i forgot...so many semi pretty girls won miss hk =/
lol man, Miss Hk is on, ^^ Guys love to watch these shows, lol yer, the Pretty-ness is dropping wheres all the 靚女s , =( lol Angie, u can try for Miss Chinese International ^^
......I'm just speechless...just hope TVb will have some better stuff anytime sooner like Jap idol lol even those girls are way better than the ones in HK Pagent WTF?!?!?
one looks like a fucking underaged teenager. all of em ugly...it's like they just pick random girls off the streets without even them being hot.
upper right and bottom left are both epic fails why don't they choose girls that look more like this: so many good lookin asian girls out there and it seems like only the ugly ones crawl out of the woodwork for these competitions... its ironic.
smarts and good looks is a very very hard fine. if a girl was pretty enough, she wouldn't need to go through miss hk.
omg, they do not look good at all, def. not beauty pagent standards, seriously, TVB shd just stop hosting Miss HK cos they get uglier and less talented every yr that i just dnt see the point to it anymore.
is it just me but are they all ugly in the pics. though i guess they are prob saving the best looking ones, though i guess we will only find out once the competition happens.
agree with espresso (for once ) if ur really pretty u dont need the title....and ppl will scout u anyways hehehe
lol she does look familar, i think i see her off Youtube or something, Daniel, lol Ask Fearless who she is, hes the 'ladies man' ^^
Man, some people are that delusional to think that they might win Miss HK. The bottom 2 needs to go. I think their friends hyped them up to audition for the pageant.
