'Welcome to the House' Cast Celebrate Lantern Festival

Sunday, March 4, 2007 Hong Kong

'Welcome to the House' Cast Celebrate Lantern Festival

On the Chinese Lantern Festival yesterday, the cast from TVB's sitcom "Welcome to the House" including Christine Ng, Sharon Chan, Kingdom Yuen, Shermon Tang and Raymond Cho took part in a promotional event at a Tseung Kwan O shopping mall, where they guessed lantern riddles, designed cakes and played games with members of the audience in a fun and lively atmosphere.

During an interview, Christine spotted her uncle and his family in the audience and was so happy that she shouted out to them and invited them in backstage. HOwever, her uncle was not prepared to be photographed and when the reporters raised their cameras, he put his hand up to cover his face. Christine explained: "In Hong Kong, my closest relative is this uncle, but I have not seen him for a year and did not visit him at the new year, so I will go and make it up to him soon."

Asked if she will be celebrating the lantern festival, Christine admitted that she did not even realise the festival until the reporters mentioned it to her and she said with surprise: "I did not know it was the lantern festival. I have to work tonight and my husband will be going to see a concert and celebrating with an African musician!" As Christine will be taking part in the new series "Destiny Comes from Chance", she has only been able to celebrate her birthday and go visiting on the third day of the new year as she has not had time for anything else. She also reveals that for this new series, she has had a head of thick hair extensions put in and has received good compliments from both men and women, who says she is very attractive. This is her peak since joining TVB. Asked if she is planning to grow her hair long after this, she says she has no plans to because hair extensions are so convenient now. Also, "Welcome to the House" will be ending this Saturday and Christine says that she will be joining the other cast members at Shermon's house to watch the finale.

Sharon joined Lai Lok Yi and Chan Shan Chung for a performance in Toronto earlier, so she was very tired at yesterday's event due to jetlag. When they returned, their plane was delayed due to strong winds and snow by four or five hours, but fortunately it took off smoothly. Sharon was very scared for their safety though, so she was praying constantly.

Although it was only one show, the audience reaction was great and they were singing the retro songs from the series "Glittering Days" wearing their costumes. Most of the audience were ladies, so they were very absorbed and handed out lucky packets. Sharon says happily: "Although the value was not very high, we received a lot and the fee was okay as well, so we immediately opened them up and went shopping."

As for the lantern festival, how will she be celebrating? Sharon says calmly: "I will be having dinner at home. (Taking your boyfriend home to meet your family?) No, just on my own. (Did you not have a boyfriend earlier?) I am not commenting on my relationships, I will be eating along and then I have not arranged anything else because I am very tired. (Did you celebrate for Valentines Day?) I was working with the cast of 'Welcome to the House' in Zhongshan on that day, so I celebrated with my colleagues."

credits: tvbspace, asianfanatics.