Text/Six Beasts of Wu Ridge Special Author: bb.
Speaking of the Hong Kong entertainment industry in the last century, everyone should have heard of the famous "Three Princes of Central" (Cheung Kwok Wing, Chen Baiqiang, Paul Chung), all three were born in rich families, and were sent abroad to study when they were students. But compared to Zhang Guorong and Chen Baiqiang, Paul Zhong seems to be known only by a small number of people. But about him, whether it is in the hosting world, or the love history in the clouds, or the end of life by jumping off a building and committing suicide, it is full of tragic colors. On the occasion of the re-screening of "The Graduate", the editor came to pick up Paul Zhong.
Paul Zhong's name, which sounds like a foreign language, is actually not his real name, his original name is Chen Zhenwen, but it seems that little people know, this point from the year of Paul Zhong's suicide, the "Happy Tonight" program team received a call from the hospital, asking if they knew Chen Zhenwen, and no one knew that they could take care of the leopard. Everyone likes to call Paul Zhong, he has a gentle personality, is friendly, very good at Harrah, has a very good reputation in the circle, and even the cleaning aunt of the radio station is very familiar with him.
Paul Chung entered the entertainment industry at a young age, initially working as a DJ in Hong Kong Commercial Television, but in 1981, he chose to leave commercial television and switched to television stations, starting his television career. In the 1980s, he starred in many Hong Kong-flavored TV movies, mostly playing the young boy who first entered the society, the same juvenile era, such as the yor played in "Sweet Twenty Four Tastes", shy and well-behaved, which was regrettable; Paul, played in "Cheers", was young and young.
But those "Three Princes of Central" automatically bound movies are almost all tailor-made for Zhang Guorong, Chen Baiqiang, Zhong Paul's lens is pitiful, and it has not brought a qualitative leap to the career, but it has attracted a lot of fans on TV.
In 1985, Paul Zhong, who had been immersed in the entertainment industry for a long time, turned to wireless and found his most suitable position. The initial tempering of wireless laid a solid foundation for his later career. Nowadays, there are very few videos about Paul Zhong, even if there is a picture quality, it is scummy, but through those pictures full of age, you can still feel his personality charm, and it is not difficult to understand that he later became the ace host of "Happy Tonight".
His hosting style is very personal, especially his distinctive voice, with his superior responsiveness and insight ability, it is not an exaggeration to say that he can directly ko off the senior host of the same period, Such as Fat Fat, Zheng Yuling and others. Under the age of 30, he can be described as an "intruder" in the Hong Kong hosting industry, capturing all the audiences with his personable and polite manners, and later naturally becoming ho Shou-credible's successor, enjoying the title of gold medal emcee and sitting firmly in the top spot of wireless hosting.
His career is booming, but about Paul Zhong's love life, it is very mysterious, and there are many opinions. The only girlfriend he ever admitted to was Anna on the mountain. Anna Shangshan is Zhang Zhilin's cousin, of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent, and entered the entertainment circle after filming with Paul Zhong. The two were sweetly in love for three years, but in the end they ended up breaking up. Paul Chung once confessed that Anna was his ideal marriage partner, and even wore the ring that Anna gave him when he died (but it had been 4 years since they broke up), and it was really sad to see that they had loved each other deeply.
Another woman also had a close relationship with Paul Zhong, she was Paul Zhong's colleague Lu Minyi in "Happy Tonight", which also led to the delicate and complex emotional chain of Paul Zhong, Lu Minyi and Yu Qixia, and the three of them were called the iron triangle of "Happy Tonight". Although they all unanimously declare that they are just friends, it is inevitable that such a day and night together will easily sublimate from friendship to love, but such a combination is also quite embarrassing. At that time, the Hong Kong media had a large report, coupled with the planning of Happy Tonight Wu Yu frankly said in the "Zhiyun Dinner Bureau" more than ten years later, we can all know that Paul Zhong and Yu Qixia did have a love that ended without illness, but due to the strong obstruction of the woman's family, this love was strangled in the cradle. Later, Yu Qixia suffered a car accident in Australia, and the two became increasingly estranged.
And Lu Minyi became the existence of "friendship above, lovers are not enough" in the rest of Paul Zhong's time. In addition to the above, Yu An'an and Sydney pear have also passed on gossip with him, but unfortunately Paul's love road has stumbled and bumped, and he has not found his crush until his death. As for the much-publicized "Love History of Lan Jieying and Paul Zhong", after many studies, it should be certain that it is only a rumor. After Paul's death, Lu Minyi and Yu Qixia wept bitterly and were very sad. Then their fates were also very different, Yu Qixia died of cancer in the fourth year after Paul's suicide, only 36 years old when she died, while Lu Minyi later married Sun Jing'an (chairman of Hong Kong Martini Group), gradually faded out of the entertainment circle, and has been living a happy life.
As for Paul's death, it has always been mysterious and supernatural. The more unified cause of death in the folk is that Paul owes a lot of debt and chooses to end himself when he is desperate. Paul is well known for his gambling addiction, and before his death, he borrowed money frequently from his TV colleagues and friends to gamble. Although 1989 was at the peak of his career, the income was naturally quite impressive, but the vicious habit of gambling when he had money made him unable to survive. According to the testimony, he still had 400,000 yuan before his death and could not repay it, but if it was really 400,000, it would not be able to support his suicide move, and there were also reports that he provoked the underworld, thinking of Paul's former friend's statement that "Paul once encountered the horror of evildoers on the set to force debts", which seems to have traces.
After Paul's death, once in the filming scene of the TVB series "There is a camp cooked woman", someone witnessed Paul's undead sitting in the audience, although the picture is blurred and difficult to identify, but the rumors about Paul's ghostly haunting have been noisy. One of the most famous is the haunted incident of Paul Chung's house that was interviewed by the Hong Kong program "City Pursuit": a Hong Kong citizen named Ah Chang claimed that the TV had been broadcasting a program hosted by Paul Chung, and then Paul Chung told him through television that he was framed and pointed out the person who killed him, but there is no way to verify this.
Now, nearly 30 years after Paul Chung jumped from the early morning of His sha tin apartment, the Hong Kong entertainment industry is not human, his good brothers Cheung Kwok Wing and Chan Pak Keung have also died young, and the former "Three Musketeers of Central" have rushed to such a similar ending, which is sad. And since then, the memory of them has always stayed in those old movies and TV series, everything is like smoke, and the wind continues to blow.