'Sunny Happiness' Debuts As #1 On the Rating Chart

"Sunny Happiness" shines some light to Sunday's idol dramas rating competition!

Taiwanese idol dramas aired on Sundays haven't been doing well since last summer. Recent ratings have been quite low, usually just around 1. The premier of "Sunny Happiness" last night changed the pattern. The drama debuted with a sunny 1.67 rating and topped the rating chart as winner.

Mike He's "Calling For Love" received low ratings earlier and therefore he was once regarded as the "poison" to ratings. He is quite relieved after he knew his new drama with Janine Chang did fairly well. Yesterday he and Janine attended a celebration promotion at a motel and skillfully opened a champagne, spraying liquid to everywhere. He disclosed he specially learned that at home.

"I've been practicing at home for a long time," the actor said. "Now I can control how much and how high I want it to be."

Source: Liberty Times / By: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Mike He & Janine Chang's Kissing Scene--Tongue Involved?

CTV's back to the Sunday's idol drama competition with new drama "Sunny Happiness" starring Mike He and Janine Chang.

Bed scenes seem normal to appear in idol dramas now, and leads from "Sunny Happiness" had a quite intimate bed scene in the drama. Thinking back the scene now, Mike expressed they were both super nervous.

"In the beginning, we were embarrassed. In order to ease the tension, I purposely called her 'my senior,' and said 'I welcome your advice' to the camera. Feels like filming a category III movie."

Mike was even suspected of sticking his tongue out when he kissed Janine (picture). However, the actor denied, and in contrast, complained his partner for giving him a hard time when filming the bed scene.

"According to the plot, she has to kick me off the bed. But I didn't know she's doing it for real. I got kicked on my stomach!"

As for Mike's "special" habit, Janine said she knows how to "protect" herself.

"We had a deal. Whoever sticks the tongue out, then the other person can bite on it."

Source: NowNews / By: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Mike He's Birthday Wish is to Have a Girlfriend

Mike He is celebrating his 27th birthday on December 28 and his fans held an early celebration party for him on the 25th. His good friend Dylan Kuo made a special appearance and brought a bottle of aged wine for him, signifying their friendship is long-lasting ["jiu" is the homophones of alcohol and long].

Been single for 4-5 years, the Taiwanese idol's birthday wish is to have a girlfriend. He dated a gril several years before but their relationship ended after he went to film in Mainland. As for his requirements for girlfriend, he hopes she can understand him and it is okay if she works in the showbiz: "I'll admit it if I got photographed, but must be agreed by her."

The "Calling For Love" star is currently shooting 2 idol dramas: <幸福最晴天> (Sunny Happiness) with Janine Chang and <美樂，加油！> with Cyndi Wang. Although he has intimate kiss scenes with the two actress, but the actor actually complains he is hurt by these girls. First, he gets hit by Janine during filming; then Cyndi once kicked on his important private part. Cyndi even said she did not feel it at all, making Mike lose face.

Source: China Times & UDN / Translation: KAY@ Kay's Entertainment

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Mike He Loses Weight to Match Cyndi Wang

Mike He and Cyndi Wang are collaborating in new idol drama <<美樂。加油>> and the drama held a press conference yesterday. In the drama, Mike will fight with his brother, play by Eli Shih, for Cyndi. In order to match and look good with Cyndi in the drama, the two love rivals must lose some weight first. After all, Cyndi only weights 41kg!

Before the official competition to win Cyndi's heart in the drama, Mike and Eli are in a competition of losing weight. Mike even boasts his chest muscle looks good now when he wears V-neck shirt, making Eli shouts "absolutely can't lose!"

Mike plays a stubborn famous composer and producer who is hard to work with. Eli plays an unfaithful man. They have relationships with Cyndi, playing someone who always live for other people, and Michelle Chang (also known as the "Little Ady An").

In addition, Cyndi admits she still keep in contact with rumored boyfriend Lee Wei. Talked about her most memorable way he used to pursue her, she jokes it was the caring phone calls. She also admits having some pursuers right now. "If no one is pursuing, then it would be a little sad!," she says with a smile.

Source: UDN / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Cyndi Wang Becomes a Baker in New GTV Drama with Mike He

Cyndi Wang and Mike He will be in a new GTV drama called “美樂加油” (roughly translates to Mei Le, go) – a love story with a bakery shop as its setting. For the drama, they specially invited the 2010 world champion pastry chef Hsu Yen-Wu as their consultant. Coincidently, SETTV also plans to film a bakery related drama next year, but GTV will get a head start in filming. The two leads got their character image styles settled just several days ago, and the drama is to start filming on the 16th.

In “美樂加油”, Cyndi Wang will play a bakery shop owner, so she has been practicing some basic skills like kneading dough and baking toasts. Mike He will play a famous music producer who falls in love with Cyndi’s toasts, which gives him inspirations for his work.

Although Mike’s popularity has been declining, GTV emphasized, “(We’re) very happy to have Mike He be in this drama, we especially asked the original novel author (單飛雪) to modify the script to fit his character.”

Mike accepted the role half a month ago and immediately began to go on a diet. Other than swimming and working out, he only eats vegetables for dinner. The 180cm actor dropped from 72Kg to 68Kg. He revealed that he chose less aggressive sports to lose weight due to his previous spine injury (separation of the 5th and 6th vertebrae). He said, “The doctor recommended me to go through surgery because if it gets serious, it may cause Ankylosing spondylitis, but if I do, I’ll have to rest for eight months, so I don’t want to go through surgery right away.”

Mike was injured while playing basketball during the filming of “Seventh Grade” seven years ago.

Source: UDN, Apple Daily / Translation: fufu @ CpopAccess

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Ady An Refuses to Pair With Mike He?

Ady An was crowned "idol drama queen" after starring SETTV's "Autumn's Concerto." She returned to filming movies after she's done with the drama. Recently she was invited by producer Ke Yi Qin to star in new drama <我愛查沒樂>, but it was said she turned it down when she knew her partner is Mike He.

Producer Ke's new drama <我愛查沒樂> just announced its leads to be Mike He and Cyndi Wang and all actors went to a costume fitting yesterday. "Director said will make Cyndi as cute as possible, and Mike as hot as possible!" said the satisfied Ke.

However, the drama was originally set to be Joe Cheng and Joe Chen Qiao En, but Qiao En decided to film new film with Chow Yun Fat. Then female lead switched to Ady An, but this time Joe has a problem and he was replaced with Mike. Because Mike's "Calling For Love" didn't do well, Ady refused and said no to Producer Ke.

Ke frankly admitted things like this happened before but not in this idol drama. She said she never asked Ady and just asked about her schedule. Joe's manager also denied the rumor. "Ady is an excellent actress. But our schedule really couldn't fit." Mike expressed he likes the scripts and also turned down a movie for it; he knows nothing about the rumor.

Source: Liberty Times / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Mike He Demands 8 Hours of Sleep During Shooting New Drama?

This year's Taipei Television Festival is opening soon (September 27) and nearly 20 countries and 1000 people are participating in this event. TV stations and producers are announcing their new plans, such as GTV announced shooting new drama "查美樂" starring Mike He and Cyndi Wang.

When shooting "Calling For Love" 2 years ago, Mike He was troubled with edema. Then he forgot scripts often when shooting several TV series and movies at the same time, and that made him worried about his health. This time shooting new drama, it was rumored he demands 8 hours of sleep everyday. As for this rumor, Mike feels wronged because on the contract, it says he can shoot 14 hours for the drama.

Source: China Times / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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It's a Must-do For Idol Drama Male Stars to Show Off Their 6-Pack Abs

Source: UDN
Translated by: KAY

In idol dramas, male stars are often required to show their 6 pack abs. SETTV program assistant director joked: "Our male lead must have 6 pack, female stars would be better to have C-cup, must compete with Koreans."

Lately, Peter Ho, Tony Yang, Michael Chang, and Mike Ho took off their clothes for idol dramas. Tony Yang played a dad in "Ni Yada." Director arranged a bath scene for him. When taking a bath with his son in the drama, Tony's chest exposed and netizens greatly praised his body. He joked: "Hope after this scene is out, can attract companies to ask me to endorse body wash."

Mike He has a scene in idol drama 「幸福最晴天」(Sunny Happiness) where he wears swim pants. He was teased that his "scale" shrunk compared to when he shoot lingerie advertisements before. Mike cleared up: "Really didn't shrunk, just during photo shoot, we didn't move, something might be done. But filming is in motion, I can only say, I'm still very spectacular."

Michael Chang also has bath scenes in idol drama 「男生宿舍的女生」 (direct translation: The Girl In Boy's Dorm). Director didn't feel it's enough and arranged two bath scenes. He was filming these scene at an elementary school that day. He covered his lower half body immediately when he stepped out from the tub, but still attracted some elementary school students to watch, making him embarrassed.

Michael is confident in his body, but he doesn't like to have 6 pack: "It's too disgusting!" He only wants to keep his body in shape through exercise.

Compared to Michael, Vanness Wu works out actively. He has to eat 8 egg whites every day, plus vegetables. He doesn't touch starch in order to train to have muscle lining using protein. Peter Ho also showed off his good body in "Summer's Desire." In a swimming scene, he showed off his 6-packs.

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First Time Collaborating, Janine Chang and Mike He Will Have Intimate Scenes On Antique Bed

New idol drama "Sunny Happiness" ("幸福最晴天") held a press conference in a hotel yesterday. Leads Janine Chang and Mike He, and guest actors Ming Dao and Annie Chen attended to the event.

In this drama, Mike plays a a young hotel businessman and would have many romance scenes with Janine, who plays a hotel maid. First time collaborating, the director arranged many hot intimate plots for them. The place where they would have intimate bed scenes together is in a presidential suite. There is a European antique bed that worth millions+, the two don't dare to overlook and said: "I'm very nervous!"

It has been about a month since filming. Janine and Mike already developed a good relationship, specially the two are spokespersons of beauty products, so they talk about skincare a lot in private.

Source: UDN / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment 

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Ratings War: Jerry Yan Kisses Love Rival, Mike He Kisses Married Woman

New idol drama from CTS "Calling For Love" will debut this Sunday. Although female lead of this drama Charlene Choi (Ah Sa) still couldn't come to Taiwan to promote, male lead Mike He still tried his best to do the job. In yesterday's event, he was asked "Your thoughts of kissing a married woman? [Ah Sa was married to Ronald Cheng during filming], he said: "I earned a lot." Rainie Yang specially recorded a video to support Mike, but she teased Mike is old-faced but is pretty good at kissing, only lost to Show Luo.

In Sunday's new episode of "Down With Love," Jerry Yan was kissed by Michael Zhang Xun Jie. Michael disclosed: "Jerry's lips are soft." Jerry didn't feel embarrassed being kissed by a Michael, because the two already knew  each other before entering showbiz.

Source: UDN / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment  

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