Recently, a senior Hong Kong entertainment reporter broke the news that more than 600 celebrities in Hong Kong are now unemployed. When Gu Tianle was the president of the Hong Kong Artists Association, he once gave 8,000 yuan in relief to these unemployed stars, but there are still many unpopular artists in the Hong Kong circle in the cold winter period who take a meager salary or even lose their jobs every month, and can only change careers or work part-time to support, which is sad.
Among the affected artists in the Hong Kong circle, many are TVB artists, and in recent years, there have been many rumors about TVB's poor treatment, coupled with the current bad environment, the situation of TVB artists can be imagined. Recently, at TVB's Taiqing, Sister Wang Mingquan has publicly spoken out for artists, hoping that TVB can give artists some extra wages.
Recently, another TVB supporting actor Lin Zishan admitted that he has not worked for a long time. After filming a drama at the end of last year, Lin Zishan has been staying at home without a job, relying on his wife to go out alone to earn money to support his family.
The 38-year-old Lin Zishan was one of Chow's royal supporting roles before entering TVB, and once starred in Hong Ye in Stephen Chow's King of Comedy and a small in Kung Fu. After 2005, Lin Zishan signed a contract with TVB, but over the years, he only played some supporting roles in TVB, although it was not very popular, but it also left a deep impression on many viewers.
Like other TVB supporting characters, Lin Zishan, who plans to get married, also knows that it is difficult to support his family with his salary at TVB, so he once cooperated with friends to open a restaurant, but later ended his career of opening a restaurant.
Lin Zishan has been unemployed and stayed at home for a few months now, but his mentality is very good. He himself expressed his gratitude for his wife's efforts during this time, and his own mentality was very good. During this time, Lin Zishan's wife was responsible for earning money and supporting the family outside, while Lin Zishan was responsible for taking her one-year-old daughter and doing housework at home.
Lin Zishan also shared with everyone the video of himself going to the supermarket to buy things, in which Lin Zishan also helped his wife buy sanitary napkins, and Lin Zishan was also very patient to share with everyone the types of goods. It can be seen that Lin Zishan is completely unconcerned about his current identity as a "cooking man", and he feels that he is just trying to do something to make his family happy.
In recent years, there have been many TVB artists like Lin Zishan who have encountered financial difficulties, but Lin Zishan is relatively lucky, because he has a very supportive wife, and the living situation of the family of three is not bad.
TvB's Indian supporting role Chen Zhenhua was also photographed working as a dishwasher in a restaurant on the mainland some time ago.
There are also artists who are photographed cooperating with friends to open frozen meat shops and personally deliver pork themselves.
There are even artists who go to factories to work part-time as transport workers and ordinary porters, just to earn an extra 900 Hong Kong dollars a day to maintain their lives. Many TVB artists have no other skills besides acting talents, so even if they come out to do part-time work, they can only do ordinary work, although it is hard, but there is no way to live.
In TVB, the situation of the supporting characters is indeed not optimistic, and some popular artists can also rely on their high popularity to shoot or perform in the mainland, such as She Shiman, Lin Feng and so on. The 57-year-old Tao Dayu, with the fame accumulated in his early years, is said to have spent 200,000 yuan on the mainland, but some TVB artists who are not popular are equally sad to leave TVB.
Although TVB's current bad environment is affected by many external factors, TVB can't even guarantee the basic life of employees.