Wednesday February 7, 2007 Hong Kong Linda Chung Avoids Kiss from Michael Tse Cast members from TVB's Chinese New Year series "Best Bet" including Michael Tse, Linda Chung, Anne Heung and Wayne Lai donned their costumes to attend a promotional event yesterday, which was held up by half an hour as everyone waited for Michael to get changed. During the event, they played three games and in one of these, Anne and Linda had to put some bright red lipstick onto their male partners lips and make an imprinto on a card. The playful Michael tried to print it onto Linda's forehead, but she escaped quickly, leaving Wayne laughing he should have tried to kiss her body instead. In the later treasure hunting game, Oscar Leung scared everyone off by flicking water everywhere with his net and it was down to the intervention by MC Kanin Ngo to calm everyone down. Linda laughs that this is the first time that she has put lipstick on a man and she gave Michael some full plump lips. She found it great fun and talking of nearly being kissed by him, she said nervously: "He has a wife! (If the ratings are good, will you kiss Michael?) If the ratings break 30 points, I will consider it." Asked if she does not want to kiss Michael, she immediately denied this and unable to handle the fierce questioning from the press, she signalled for help from Michael. As for the recent reports that she has been given special treatment to go and film a movie, Linda explains that this was all arranged by the company. As for the favouritism shown by the director Yip Nim Sum for her and Stephy Tang, she says: "In that wedding scene, I was wearing a dress with a very long train, so to avoid getting in the way of other people, I sat a little further away. The director is very fair with everyone." As for the rumours between Stephy and the director, Linda says that this is their private matter and she will not interfere. Michael indicates that the kiss scenes in this show were all just done by camera anglesand in response to Linda's pledge to kiss him if the ratings top 30 points, he smiles that she can push the limit to 31 if she wants. However, he says that he is a little worried about the ratings over Chinese New Year, because people will be going away on vacation and so if he gets good reviews, then this is already a reward. When the reporters joke about whether he is worried about upsetting his wife, who is suspected to be pregnant, so he evades the topic of kissing, he smiles: "No, I am not avoiding it! If we are expecting a baby, I will let everyone know." credits: tvbspace, asianfanatics.
