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In the early 1980s, TVB launched a singing talent show: the Chinese Rookie Singing Competition, and Wen Zhaolun, who loved singing since childhood, signed up for the first one.
The champion of that year was Mei Yanfang, and Wen Zhaolun stopped in the top fifteen, but this ranking did not hinder his acting development path.
The reason is that without him, the buddies are really too handsome.
As a result, Wen Zhaolun, who was not yet 18 years old at the time, was included in the TVB and became the host of THE TVB children's program "Banana Boat".
Soon after, he was introduced to the radio station as a DJ and continued to chase his original dream: to make music.
In 1985, Wen Zhaolun signed to a record label and released his first album" the following year.
The album didn't get much of a hit, but the god of luck in another area began to take care of him.
With the disintegration of the "Wireless Five Tigers", TVB ushered in the first time in history of "spending more and having less" situation, and the handsome Wen Zhaolun soon attracted the attention of the top management of the drama department.
The singer, who has never taken a class in the TVB artist training class, not only has not experienced the early days of running dragon sets like Liu Qingyun and Zhou Xingchi, but has played the leading role from the beginning.
What is even more enviable is that the first drama "City Story" starring Wen Zhaolun not only caused a lot of splashes, but he also won the title of "cousin" with the role played in the play.
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In the last two years, Wen Zhaolun starred in the TV series "Lemon Husband" and "Auspicious Star Annunciation" respectively, and the partners were Li Meixian, Zhou Haimei, and Zeng Huaqian.
Although his popularity gradually expanded, his handsome appearance still somewhat affected the type of role he took on in his early days.
In 1989, Wei Jiahui, who had supervised the production of the TVB record-breaking drama "Rogue Tycoon" three years ago, launched the family feud drama "Duty And Duty".
The drama not only broke the ratings record of TVB dramas, but also won the "World's Most Chinese TV Drama Episode Award" for TVB's 28th anniversary, and the role of Ding Youkang, played by Wen Zhaolun, is the number one topic person in this blockbuster series.
Every time you take stock of the role of "sitting on the bottom of the prison", he must have him!
Ding Youkang did nothing evil, the audience hated him so much that they gritted their teeth, and even Wen Zhaolun's family entered the play to the point where they couldn't help but ask: Wanzai, how many people have you killed in this episode?
But on the other hand, his outstanding appearance and good temperament not only make the heroine of the play love to death, but also let countless audiences fall for him, which can be called the originator of "Sven Bad Guy", which also opens a precedent for Hong Kong dramas to use handsome men to play super villains.
Later, Ding Xiao crab played by Zheng Shaoqiu in "Big Time" and Xu Jiali played by Luo Jialiang in "Heaven and Earth Boy" are all such casting methods.
In the same year, another drama starring Wen Zhaolun, "Return My True Colors", was also broadcast wirelessly, in which he played a righteous policeman who was completely two worlds away from Ding Youkang.
The show also earned him another title: Wen Sir, which until now is the most affectionate nickname for him by his fans and Hong Kong drama fans.
At this time, Wen Zhaolun was not yet 25 years old, which was exactly the age when Xiao Xian meat was popular, but he had already interpreted the representative role in the history of Hong Kong opera.
But, it's just the beginning.
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In 1990, Qi Haonan's time came.
"After Qi Haonan, There is no one to love in Hong Kong dramas", this is the media's comment on the male protagonist of the TV series "I Am Kind".
This is also an opening of the praise mode of "there is no more after someone...".
Unlike the history of character struggle in the past, "I Am Good", which is positioned in the family feud drama, uses the game between the gang and the police as the narrative background, which is still a "non-mainstream" theme in that era.
The male protagonist Qi Haonan wanders between good and evil, and the gang background and cunning stepfather have always influenced his life, but the concept of right and wrong and justice in his heart often makes him caught in contradictions.
Wen Zhaolun played such a role with a rather complex inner drama very well, and the number of "girlfriend fans" also increased dramatically.
The drama won the Hong Kong TV series ratings championship that year, and also won the silver medal at the New York International Film and Television Festival.
Until 1997, it maintained its staying power and became the fifth most popular Hong Kong TV drama in the "online review".
In addition, Wen Zhaolun still did not forget his singing career, he launched his third Cantonese album "After Without You" while it was hot, and won double platinum sales in one fell swoop.
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When the concept of "Four Heavenly Kings" was not yet born, Wen Zhaolun was undoubtedly a first-line red star in Hong Kong and even in the region where Hong Kong dramas were distributed at that time.
In the 1991 TV series "No Regrets in This Life", Wen Zhaolun played the role of Gao Tianjun, which was an important episode that promoted Dawn to one of the "Four Heavenly Kings", but Wen Sir's style could not be ignored.
The following year, Wen Zhaolun once again sought a breakthrough, he played the role of the elegant and humorous Qiao Li in "Fire Rose", and the later Hong Kong drama Brother Luo Jialiang was still matching him at this time.
In 1992, in the list of the "Top Ten TV Artists of the Next Weekly TV Awards", which was very authoritative at that time, Jacky Cheung in the "Four Heavenly Kings" was one in front of him, and Li Ming and Andy Lau were behind him.
In 1994, Wen Zhaolun interpreted the simple and kind Ma Zhongbao in "The Third Kind of Court", in which his eyes were clear and completely devoid of the shadow of all the previous characters.
From the broadcast of his debut film "City Story" in 1987 to 1994, in less than seven years, Wen Zhaolun left several classic roles for Hong Kong dramas, and it is most appropriate to describe him as "a thousand faces".
In 1995, TVB Taiqing counted the top ten most watched dramas in history, three of which were starred by him, the sixth of "No Regrets in This Life", the fourth of "My Kindness", and the winner of "Duty".
But such a beautiful scenery came to an end the following year.
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Emotional mud
In 1996, Wen Zhaolun suddenly sued his former girlfriend Chen Meixin, and applied to the court for an injunction order not to let the other party study abroad, and also demanded 140,000 yuan in breakup fees.
Chen Meixin cried in public in tears, letting Wen Zhaolun let him go.
But at this time, Wen Zhaolun did not back down, "She should not think that I can be bullied, think that I am a man, do not dare to deal with face, I insist, it is very insistent."
He said he was for money, but the lawyer's fees paid for this case have exceeded 140,000; if it has nothing to do with money, "he asked the woman to recover the money from the rice cooker, and even the pot had to go back" is a big surprise.
In the end, Chen Meixin compensated 100,000 yuan to end the matter.
But for Wen Zhaolun, who was booming at the time, this was a complete blow to his self-destructive future, and he also got the first negative title of his acting career, "Plague-God".
The most direct embodiment is the drama "900 Serious Cases" starring him that year, which was unanimously resisted by the audience.
From the empty alley to the spit of thousands of people, Wen Zhaolun only took less than a year.
But this is just a big pit in the mud of his feelings, to talk about Wen Zhaolun's love history, it is really a chicken feather, almost all of them are not happy and scattered, and even called "Z male ancestor".
In 1985, Wen Zhaolun came together with the artist Li Lirui while working on the radio, which was his first love, but the relationship ended after the woman went abroad to study.
After the breakup, Li Lirui used "he is very happy and very unhappy" to evaluate the old love, and this sentence seems to have become a proverb for Wen Zhaolun's future love life.
After all, this is an amorous species that will write a song "My Sara" to commemorate after the end of the relationship, but it is also a "face-changing king" who will sue the old love in court.
In 1986, Wen Zhaolun had an affair with actor He Meiting during the filming of "City Story".
When the two interacted, Wen's macho style was very exaggerated, and he also admitted it.
Two years later, He Meiting finally chose to break up because she could not stand her boyfriend's desire to control.
But just a year later, Wen Zhaolun announced his marriage to Li Meiling, a Hong Kong sister from Malaysia, who was not yet 25 years old and had just become popular with "Duty Bound".
In the era when celebrity idols are silent about their emotional life, Wen Zhaolun's daring to disclose his girlfriend is undoubtedly a special case, and this style of courage to recognize love has just hit the hearts of many women.
It's just that love is as sweet as honey in the early stages, and it is inevitable to stumble when it goes down, and marriage is even more challenging.
After marriage, Wen Zhaolun's career became more and more prosperous, but the rumors of marriage changes intensified.
In 1993, Wen Zhaolun officially divorced, the two pointed out to each other for cheating, and wen sir's marriage that "stood the test of time" ended in tearing each other up.
After that, his "seamless integration" Chen Meixin also seemed to corroborate the words of his ex-wife, but no one expected that this love that disregarded fame and reputation to pursue, its ending was even more tragic than the first marriage.
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In 1998, he made headlines for being recovered by a finance company for HK$4.76 million.
His acting career was in a slump, Wen Zhaolun actually opened the road to business, and the debt of 4.76 million yuan stemmed from the failure of his first venture.
At the same time, his marriage with his assistant Pan Yanni and the debt fire was finally broken up by money.
At this time, Wen Zhaolun really said goodbye to the glory of the past completely.
But his debt is not over.
In 2002, Wen Zhaolun ushered in another spring in love.
He co-starred with Guo Xianni, who is known as the "most beautiful Hong Kong sister" after Li Jiaxin, in the TV series "Cowherd Weaver Girl", because the drama was filmed in the mainland most of the time, and the two protagonists in a foreign land also felt sorry for each other and rubbed love.
One is the debut debut of the heroine of the big production "Looking for Qin", and the other is a notorious non-first-line actor, this relationship is not optimistic to get a mocking "plague love".
Guo Xianni, who fell in love, ignored the gossip, quickly met her parents, showed her love in a high-profile manner, loudly rebuked the rumors of breakup, and excitedly said, "I'm just an ordinary girl, why can't I often pat and drag?" ”
But the reality and cruelty of TVB will not change for any artist, and Guo Xianni, who opposes the top management and the audience, soon suffered a career decline.
In 2005, Guo Xianni announced that she had earlier broken up with Wen Zhaolun.
Since then, Wen Zhaolun's career has all settled in the mainland, whether it is filming or doing business, he no longer intersects with TVB.
But Wen Sir, who has passed the age of confusion, is still charming, and after breaking up with Guo Xianni, he soon met wen Jiarong, a mainland artist.
It's just that this relationship still hasn't blossomed and laid hidden dangers for Wen Zhaolun's next legal dispute.
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In 2012, Wen Zhaolun posted a wedding ring photo with actor Zhao Ting.
But only a month later, the former Wen Jiarong suddenly revealed to the media that he had invested 100,000 yuan for Wen Zhaolun to buy a house, and the other party promised to give her 500,000 yuan after the house was sold, but the result was not fulfilled.
Wen Zhaolun, who has always been tough, did not back down, and the agent also said: This kind of gift relationship is not called a debt, right?
This "wealth and color door" eventually failed, and the woman left a sentence of "How can I drag with such a person" to show anger.
In 2013, Wen Zhaolun and Zhao Ting announced the news of their marriage, and in 2015, they gave birth to a daughter, Gentle Beauty.
Today, he will express his love for his wife and daughter on social platforms, and it seems that showing love has not changed much from the past.
Although it has developed well in the mainland, Wen Zhaolun's outspoken personality directly makes him do some quite unexpected things.
We know that celebrities bring a lot of goods: food, furniture, cosmetics, jewelry, health care products, etc., and anything can be sold.
However, it is rare for men to recommend women's products.
Recently, the artist Wen Zhaolun has recommended a female hygiene product to everyone in the live broadcast without changing color, which is rare in the history of live broadcasting.
Not only that, but the number of viewers of the live broadcast is also pitiful, only a few thousand.
If it is other unknown artists, it is not unusual for the live broadcast to be unpopular, but the protagonist of the live broadcast is Wen Zhaolun, so it is really regrettable.
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It is true that the changes in a generation of Hong Kong drama kings are inevitably lamentable, especially the turmoil in which the career is hindered by personal emotional life.
But character creates fate is also a law that is difficult to resist, uncompromising, not yielding to the almost paranoid Wen Zhaolun obviously can not continue to become popular in the show business circle, especially in the Hong Kong art world, those grooves of emotional right and wrong, let him be on the cusp of the storm again and again.
In the 1990s, Hong Kong's showbiz entered a particularly competitive moment, with films, TV series and music scenes without exception.
Although the strength of the artist is important, the role of the person in dealing with the world should not be underestimated.
In this way, Wen Zhaolun's "ending" is actually doomed, that is, his personality is destined to become a great obstacle to the development of his acting career.
Nowadays, he has passed the year of knowing his destiny and sharing the heavenly world with his family, although he has experienced ups and downs, he still strives to realize the happy family dream that he frequently mentions, and also echoes the classic line of TVB that "a family is to be neat and tidy".
And classic characters such as Ding Youkang, Qi Haonan and Wen Sir will always be engraved in the history of Hong Kong drama, and no one can deny the era that belonged to Wen Zhaolun.
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