Wednesday July 2, 2008 Hong Kong This year's Mr Hong Kong and Miss Hong Kong finalists were brought together in a TVB special When Miss HK Met Mr HK <當香港小姐遇上香港先生時> that was filmed yesterday. As the shoot coincided with the 24th birthday of Miss Hk Number 5 Jovy Leung (梁倩汶), the crew organised a cake and celebration for her. Some semi-naked photographs of Number 4 Samantha Ko (高海寧) have been published this week in a tabloid magazine and she admitted that she was the person in the photographs, but denied that she has ever posed for swimwear or underwear shoots. Asked if she found these pictures acceptable, she said that it was not the case and she was merely posing for some promotional pictures for a hair salon. Asked why she thought these photos had surfaced, Samantha explained that the photographer and the stylist also had copies of the pictures. As for speculation about whether or not she had distributed the pictures to the press herself as a publicity stunt, she insisted that she would never do such a thing. As for whether she had any regrets about posing for the photographs, she said that it was just a job at the time, but she would have preferred not to have taken them. Miss Hong Kong executive Rosa Chan (陳紫蓮) revealed that Samantha had notified the organisers of the existence of this set of photographs, but she was not aware that they were semi-naked poses. However, the committee understood her professional needs and have accepted her explanation. Mr Hong Kong's "Takeshi Kaneshiro Lookalike" Ho Kwan Shing (何君誠) has also been revealed to have posed for underwear shots and he explained that these were taken when he was a model and was part of his work. Asked if he has also had any nude photos, he said that he has never tried these shoots. credits: batgwa.
