Joe Ma and Charmaine Sheh getting married

Yesterday afternoon, Joe Ma, Charmaine Sheh, Sammul Chan, Akina Hong and others attended the promotional event for new series 'Maiden's Vow'. They played a game where they demonstrated four types of wedding. When it's Charmaine and Joe's turn to portray newlyweds in Qing costume, Joe carried Charmaine on his back. To this Cheong Chi Kwong made a (adult) joke: "It should be male on top, female at below! While the female is on top?" He also jested that
they should exchange position, but Charmaine refused. Charmaine joked that Joe carried her on his back represent that a guy have to be a slave (to his wife) forever.



In another game, the 'grooms' have to be blindfolded and search for their brides. Akina purposely misleaded them and even took Charmaine's jade ring and wore in on herself. She also gropped at Charmaine's breast. Later, when asked about this, Charnmaine say it's okay because they're both girls. Charmaine said: "She (Akina) is so perverted! But she's just fooling around, she doesn't mean it."



The reporters also asked if she was embarrased being so close to her rumored boyfriend onstage. Charmaine explained that the rumors are not true. It's just their job to immerse in their characters. In addition, they are good friends in real life. She also stressed that she will only choose single, unmarried man as her boyfriend - someone she could grow old with.



In addition, since Charmaine has wore wedding dress in her countless tv series, she is afraid that she has numbed feelings for them. "Maybe when I really get married, I'll have to wear something extraordinary or even weird."

Both Joe and Charmaine hope that the series rating will achieve at least 33 points. However, what is more important to them is that the audiences will like the series.

The reporters brought up the topic of Joe and Sonija Kwok's kissing scene in 'The Conquest'. Joe said that kissing scene was nothing compared to this series. He divulged that there will be many kissing scenes between him and Charmaine in 'Maiden's Vow'. The most passionate one should be where he jumped into the jacuzzi and shared a kiss with Charmaine.
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Charmaine will be singing Maiden's Vow theme and subtheme

Charmaine Sheh, Joe Ma and Sammul Chan joined a group of 18 TVB artistes in Dongguan for a promotional event for the forthcoming series "Phoenix Quartet" in a 'grand opening' of the "Phoenix Hall" from the series. Afterwards, the cast tested their culinary skills, but when the ladies saw that they had to cook insects, they were screaming and making quite a scene.



In the cooking competition, the cast split into four groups and host Yuen Kit Yee first asked the artistes to put their hands into a sealed box to guess the ingredients. When Akina Hong took the lead to put her gloved hand into a box of maggots, she described them as 'soft' life Sammul. When it was revealed that Charmaine had to put her hand into a box of beetles, she guessed by the audience's reaction that this was not pleasant, so she asked her colleagues for help and she secured a towel to wrap around her glove and protect her arms. However, as soon as she touched the insect, she quickly retracted her hand, dropping the towel in the box. She screamed about how disgusting it was as she covered her mouth in terror. It was left to veteran actress Leung Shun Yin to pick up the beetle and complete the task, ending Charmaine's ordeal. As the other artistes became hysterical over their phobias, a rather amusing scene ensued.

When they finally got down to some cooking, Charmaine and Irene Wang wore oven gloves to cook to avoid being burned and Joe, Sammul and Ben Wong were the judges. However, they refused to try the food and in the end, Charmaine, Sherming Yiu and Akina had to force feed them. In the end, Charmaine won the competition with her "Melodious Harmony" dish.



Although she was happy about the win, when the press asked her to comment on the recent news about Gillian Chung being snapped by the paparazzi whilst getting changed, she said that these reports were a very bad influence on children and a terrible reflection on society, giving people the illusion that stalking people is legal. Asked if she has been more careful about this now,she says that sometimes it is beyond their control because no matter how careful you are, you cannot combat the current technology and the hidden cameras that are used. Each time she gets changed, she is very worried and can just be careful to keep herself as covered up as possible.

As a judge for the competition, Joe was asked about his reputation as "Fa Dan Killer" and he just laughed. Joe explained that the news about him linked with leading ladies is just promotion for the show and not reality. Joe reveals that he has been travelling in France and Spain. As there were no press there following him around, he was able to wear what he wanted without being snapped and he felt very free because he did not have to worry about the Hong Kong press.



When the hotel owner presented Charmaine and Joe with a set of phoenix statues, he said: "The male and female phoenix cannot be separated, so I hope that Joe and Charmaine will be together more." Charmaine quickly added: "This is in the series, we won't be apart on your TV screens." Charmaine will be singing the end theme song for the series and asked why she did not duet with Joe, she says that she has never heard him sing before. Joe says: "I am ok at singing. (Have you not been to karaoke with Charmaine?) I don't sing very much, I just go to drink!"
Translation credit to Em.

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