CCTV host and actor two professions in front of you, which will you choose?
In the entertainment industry, there are 6 actors who once stood up to the aura of a CCTV host and showed their skills in front of the screen.
With that fluent Mandarin and dignified and atmospheric hosting style, he has conquered countless people.
However, they did not love this "iron rice bowl", but at the peak of their careers, they turned to a dashing actor.
What is their current situation?
Do they regret their decision?
Cao Ying
The story of the ugly duckling turning into a white swan has been heard a lot.
But there are not many stars who have really experienced this story, of which Cao Ying is the most typical example.
Before becoming a host, Cao Ying's experience was very tortuous.
She was the only daughter in the family, and although she had always been held in the palm of her hand by her parents, the moment she entered the school, it changed.
Cao Ying studied at Huangzhuang Vocational High School in Beijing, majoring in beauty salons.
Here she met all kinds of people.
Maybe it was just starting to learn makeup, the foundation was not good enough, so Cao Ying was squeezed by many people.
On one occasion, the school held a temporary event.
Because it is temporary, the instructor arranges for students to participate in the activity.
However, no one expected that Cao Ying's entire class knew about this matter, but no one told her about the activity.
In the end, it was almost at the end of the event that she didn't know.
Since then, Cao Ying has understood that only when her strength becomes stronger and she becomes stronger, others will not look down on her.
So she studied hard, and finally changed from a small transparent in the class to a very good makeup skill.
It is said that girls who work hard are lucky.
In 1994, Cao Ying went to play at a TV station where her friend worked, and just happened to encounter a program recording and could not find the host.
At that time, the friend looked at Cao Ying and handed the microphone to her: "You have a good temperament and sharp teeth, you are on!" ”
Cao Ying, who has always been helpful, was forced to take the stage helplessly.
Cao Ying, who thought that there was no hosting foundation, would be interviewed in a mess, but no one expected that the effect was very good after the program was broadcast.
So the TV station signed her a one-year contract on the spot.
Immediately after that, she was hired to be the host of CCTV's ace program "Variety Show", and even appeared on the Spring Festival Gala three times in a row.
At that time, Cao Ying's career was at its peak.
However, at this time, she chose another path, to become an actress.
At that time, she starred in many TV series such as "Nine-year-old County Taiye", "Princess Wencheng", "Phoenix in the Jianghu", etc., all of which were popular TV series.
She is the female number one in every play.
Less than thirty years old, her career soared, and Cao Ying struggled for a long time among CCTV hosts and actors.
Finally decided to leave CCTV and become an actor.
Now that Cao Ying is 47 years old, although she has gradually faded out of the acting industry, she has lived a prosperous life in the live broadcast industry.
Everyone has everyone's choice, and choosing a job that suits them is actually an account of themselves.
Wang Gang
People born in the 80s should know that Wang Gang was once a CCTV host and hosted three consecutive Spring Festival Galas.
However, this "iron rice bowl" did not last long in his hands before giving up.
The reason is that he is having financial difficulties.
At that time, Wang Gang's salary was less than 4,000, plus some subsidies such as makeup expenses, and the maximum was five thousand yuan a month.
Although his salary was relatively high among his peers during that period, he also had a daughter Wang Tingting, who studied abroad.
Wang Tingting was born to Wang Gang and his ex-wife Du Xiaojuan, and in order to raise her daughter, Wang Gang sent her daughter to study in Britain.
Foreign tuition fees are not cheap, but a simple semester of tuition fees cost four thousand pounds, but Wang Tingting's school is three semesters a year, this tuition fee is calculated to make people's scalps tingle.
Coupled with living expenses, food, clothing, housing, etc., it takes about 300,000 yuan a year.
This number was astronomical in those days.
Ordinary people don't dare to imagine it at all.
The key is that although Wang Gang was a host at that time, their work regulations were very strict and they could not take on private work.
So in addition to the basic salary, Wang Gang has no other income.
In addition, during that time, Wang Gang's daughter was in a period of adolescent ignorance and liked all kinds of fancy things.
As a father, Wang Gang spoiled his daughter very much, so he did his best to meet all the requirements of his daughter.
So much so that the pressure on his body was getting bigger and bigger, and he thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to quit the CCTV host and become an actor.
I have to say that Wang Gang is indeed very capable.
First of all, he starred in three or four small-cost film and television dramas, improved his acting skills, and then starred in the role of "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan" and "He yan", which completely opened up his fame.
However, his role was soon questioned.
The host Zhang Dada once said on the variety show "Spit Conference" that Wang Gang "will only act hezhen".
Is this really the case?
Of course not.
Although Wang Gang is famous for "He yan", he has also played many roles that are not he yan, not only that, he can also talk about books and treasures.
Referring to his past hosting experience, Wang Gang said: "I feel honored to be a host. ”
Whether as a host or as an actor, Wang Gang's ability is worthy of recognition.
Now that Wang Gang is 73 years old, he is still active on the big screen.
Wang Gang is actually like a blank piece of paper, every time he experiences something, there will be a touch of color on it, and now this white paper has long become a beautiful picture.
Zhao Ziqi
Zhao Ziqi' original name was Zhao Lin, she was a lucky person since she was a child, she had excellent academic performance when she was a child, and she was often used as a learning appearance.
Some neighbors always say, "If only my children could be as good as Linlin." ”
Every time she heard these words, Zhao Ziqi would study harder.
She deserves the praise of others.
So in her sophomore year, she was arranged to host the CCTV program "Life" with Wenqing's partner.
After graduation, she was directly assigned to CCTV, and she was the only host officially assigned to CCTV that year.
She is beautiful, speaks softly and atmospherically, and her hosting style is also very comfortable.
In this way, Zhao Ziqi relied on her own solid foundation, and her career development became better and better every day.
She has hosted popular programs such as "Starlight Unlimited" and "Echoes of The Century of Chinese Literature and Art", and her popularity has become more and more exuberant.
She was only 24 years old at the time.
However, during this period, Zhao Ziqi suddenly left the position of CCTV host and transformed into the film and television circle.
At that time, many people did not understand why Zhao Ziqi, who was so popular on CCTV, would suddenly give up the "iron rice bowl"?
In fact, since 2000, there have been traces to follow.
This year, director Zhao Baogang invited Zhao Ziqi to star in the TV series "Like Fog Like Rain and Like Wind", but at that time she was still a fledgling host.
She didn't know if she wanted to find it, so she refused.
But no one expected that Zhao Baogang was a stubborn and persistent person who couldn't pull back ten cows.
Once he has made up his mind to choose someone, he will cling to it tightly.
So three years later, he finally got his wish.
Zhao Ziqi starred in "What to Save You, My Love" directed by Zhao Baogang.
Although she did not play much in the play, her acting skills were still remarkable, and later she starred in "Goodbye, Vancouver" and completely opened her fame.
Since then, her popularity has become more and more exuberant day by day, and her works have been output one after another.
At the beginning, she has been starring in urban dramas such as "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", "One Day Husband and Wife Hundred Days" and so on.
Later, she felt that playing the same type of role all the time would limit her acting skills.
So she boldly broke through herself and starred in the criminal investigation drama "Enigma Sand" in 2016.
She played the cold and full of justice heroine Lin Bing, this breakthrough, let everyone see Zhao Ziqi's strength and acting skills.
Later, in 2022, Zhao Ziqi partnered with Shen Teng and Liu Haoran to star in the movie "Four Seas".
At this time, she was 45 years old, and since she gave up the CCTV "iron rice bowl", she has been galloping in the show business circle.
In her words: "I will go as far as the road ahead is, and the past has become a memory, although the past is beautiful." ”
Now Zhao Ziqi, whether it is career or life, is very dashing and comfortable, maybe this is the life she wants.
Wenqing
When Wenqing and Zhao Ziqi hosted the program together, they were once called "CCTV Sister Flowers".
However, no one expected Zhao Ziqi and Wenqing to give up the "iron rice bowl" one after another and transform into actors.
Wenqing and Zhao Ziqi have a similar starting point, she has excellent academic performance since she was a child, and she entered the CCTV work as soon as she graduated from college.
When she was an adolescent girl, she had already hosted many popular CCTV programs, such as "Life", "Happy Dictionary", "Sound and Painting Fashion" and so on.
Later, she also hosted the Spring Festival Gala, the Youth Song Contest, and the Sketch Contest, and on all heavyweight occasions, there was basically Wenqing's figure.
During that time, Wenqing was often called: "The future star of CCTV." ”
However, this "future star" suddenly left in 2005.
The reason for leaving, Wenqing also revealed, said that it was because the career encountered a bottleneck period.
The career bottleneck period is indeed a bump for a host.
If this bump passes, it will step into another world, and if it can't be bought, it will also have a big impact on yourself.
Of course, Wenqing has been trying to get through the bumps.
So she blazed a new trail – to be an actress.
Wen Qinggang's first play was "Pregnant in October", although there were not many shots, but the starting point was good.
Many people know Wenqing, a "newcomer actor", through this drama, so later she received TV series such as "Tianxian Match" and "Business Beauty".
However, because she has played more supporting roles, it has not opened the door to the performing arts market.
If you don't break out on the screen, then work hard behind your back.
So she turned to the background as a producer, and successively planned dramas such as "Peacock Flying Southeast" and "Legend under the King's House Mountain".
But the footsteps of the explosion still did not stop in front of her.
The acting career has also fallen into a bottleneck period again.
During that time, Wenqing often remembered the days when she used to host CCTV, and she missed: "If I hadn't been so impulsive at the beginning, maybe the bottleneck period would have passed a long time ago." ”
However, the past is a foregone conclusion.
In 2010, Wenqing became the host again, and successively hosted two programs, "Encyclopedia of All Talks" and "Family Affairs".
Although she picked up the microphone again, it was still slightly inferior to the glory she had once had on CCTV.
However, in life, there are always ups and downs, as long as you cross it, the victory belongs to you.
After going around for so many years, in Wenqing's eyes, he still felt that the profession of host was more suitable for him.
Yang Tongshu
Yang Tongshu is one of the most successful examples of the host's transformation into an actor.
Yang Tongshu was born in Jilin Province in 1975 and is a proper northeastern girl with a very cheerful personality.
When many people see her, they will boast: "This girl has a really good personality, this girl is so beautiful..."
However, she did not feel happy when she heard these words.
Because she was frail and sickly since she was a child, other children could run and jump rope, but she couldn't.
So in order to let her exercise, her parents sent her to the Children's Palace to learn dance.
Although she ostensibly learned to dance, she always wanted to be a good host.
Yang Tongshu is a very mobile person, once he has an idea, he will take action.
So when she was 18 years old, she finally realized this dream.
However, there is still a gap between her dream and reality.
The first show she hosted was a life-type show, which some aunts liked to watch.
This made Yang Tongshu cry and laugh a little.
She has always wanted to be the host of the CCTV host, sitting in front of the stage and broadcasting a serious newspaper.
As the saying goes, when a person wants to do something, it will be done.
Yang Tongshu is like this.
In 2000, she successfully hosted CCTV's ace program "Film and Television Simultaneous Sound".
When he first received this task, Yang Tongshu was extremely happy in his heart.
She finally felt what it felt like to have her dream come true.
However, she only lasted this dream for more than a year.
Because she has starred in four or five TV series before, many directors have come to her to cooperate.
While filming and being a host, this made Yang Tongshu feel a lot of pressure, and his body gradually deteriorated a lot.
Later, the stage saw that Yang Tongshu was under too much pressure, so he consulted with her, which could make her lighter work and willing to cooperate with her time to record.
However, Yang Tongshu was not satisfied with such a practice.
She felt that doing so would be too much trouble for the staff in the station, so she decided to resign.
At that time, many people advised her to think twice, but she still gave up decisively.
After leaving CCTV, Yang Tongshu cooperated with Zhao Wenzhuo and Bao Jianfeng in the costume drama "Supreme Red Face".
Immediately after that, he cooperated with Chen Baoguo and Tao Hong in "Emperor Wu of Han".
The response of these two dramas was good, and Yang Tongshu's fame soared again.
I thought that she was concentrating on being an actor and completely disassociated from the host, but no one expected it.
In 2004, Yang Tongshu picked up the microphone again as a host.
At that time, it was because the host Li Jing was waiting for delivery, so the program team temporarily found Yang Tongshu to take over the baton of "Super Visit".
The broadcast effect is still good.
In fact, whether it is as a host or an actor, Yang Tongshu's strength is very amazing.
In the hosting world, she can calm down and interview every guest very calmly.
In the show business circle, she is also willing to be down-to-earth and honestly become an actor.
Who doesn't love such a star?
It's no wonder that in 2015, she was nominated for a film queen.
Now that Yang Tongshu is 46 years old, her acting skills still have not declined, and she still maintains her clean heart and has been moving forward.
Liu Bin
"There's an actor's dream, but there's a host's life."
This sentence once carried out half of Liu Bin's life.
Born in Beijing in 1961, Liu Bin has wanted to be an actor since he was a child, and he feels that actors in the spotlight are very powerful.
So he studied hard and finally was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama in 1980.
Originally, he had squeezed half of his body into the show business circle, but he did not expect to be hit by a word from the teacher just after entering the school.
At that time, they were in the shape class, and the shape class teacher looked up and down at Liu Bin for half a day, and finally frowned and said: "You are too fat, it is difficult to get a good role without losing weight." ”
This sentence directly hit Liu Bin's self-esteem, so he ran crazy and jumped rope, trying his best to lose weight.
However, there was not much result, and even after graduation, he lost his hand with the actor's dream and became a literary and artistic host of CCTV.
In the year of being a host, Liu Bin learned a lot of knowledge and mastered a lot of contacts.
But he was not very satisfied in his heart, and felt that he still wanted to be an actor.
So he immediately quit his job at CCTV and transformed into an actor.
Among them, Zhang Feng, the villain in "Black Hole", and Bai Jingye in "The Gate of the Mansion" are all starred by him.
Liu Bin's acting skills are really good, and his career once developed smoothly.
But no one expected that at his peak, he would be deceived out of all his family property.
In 2010, 50-year-old Liu Bin was deeply fascinated by a woman named Wang Lijun.
Wang Lijun is 25 years younger than Liu Bin, and she is still Ma Rong's girlfriend.
Yes, this Ma Rong is Wang Baoqiang's ex-wife.
Perhaps Wang Lijun was inspired by her good girlfriend and was about to argue about divorce after giving birth to a pair of twins for Liu Bin.
According to the revelations at the time, It was said that Wang Lijun's heart drifted to other men.
So Liu Bin, who learned of this matter, directly and angrily found Wang Lijun to confront.
However, Wang Lijun did not admit it, and even said to the outside world that Liu Bin had all kinds of bad behavior.
So the two separated.
But until 2017, Wang Lijun suddenly called Liu Bin and said that the child wanted to see his father.
Liu Bin, who was momentarily soft-hearted, left home and immediately went to see his son.
But no one expected that as soon as Liu Bin left on the front foot, Wang Lijun on the back foot took her brother and moved away all the valuable things in Liu Bin's family.
After Liu Bin learned of this, he directly sued Wang Lijun in court.
Finally, after some mediation, Wang Lijun only returned a small part of the finances.
Since then, Liu Bin has changed like a person.
He gradually returned to life and began to enjoy his old age at home steadily, and occasionally he would contact the children and exchange feelings.
As of 2022, Liu Bin is 61 years old, and the past has become a memory for him, and he only wants to do the current things well.
epilogue
Life is impermanent, and everyone living in this world will face choices large and small.
When you choose one path, it means that the other path is already away from you.
If you have enough strength, then fight it, and the results will not disappoint.
But if you don't have too much confidence, then stabilize for a while and then think about the future.
The above 6 stars, although they gave up the "iron rice bowl" of CCTV to become actors, they did not give up their lives, and they were not defeated by the difficulties involved.
Everyone has everyone's choice, respect their own choices, and go on bravely!