Hacken falls ill on night of MCI 2007

Picture: Hacken Lee and Charmaine Sheh enter the 2007 MCI red carpet

At last night's Miss Chinese International finals, guest performer Hacken Lee appeared suffering from a heavy flu. As he was sick, his singing capabilities were reduced to 60%, and of the three songs he was to sing, he could only do two live, having to lip sync the difficult-to-sing "Princess Prince". He expressed his regret over this.

Sick because of filming

Hacken stated: "Last night when I arrived at Qingyuan I had lost my voice totally as well, and before that I had rung the producer to say that if I did not recover my voice, my songs would be cut in half. (Were you worried about your performance standard?) Of course! So I saw the doctor as well as a qigong doctor, and brought chinese medicines to drink, but with the flu the most important thing is to rest. I will be returning to HK straight after this show."Hacken believes that he is very sick because of the hard work involved in his latest movie, <>.

When talking about this year's MCI contest, Hacken says that he has met them all before and hopes that HK representative Aimee Chan will make it into the top three to win some acclaim for HK, but beacuse the contest is not being held in HK, this makes it more difficult. As his wife Emily Lo was the runner-up in the 1993 contest, Hacken was asked if he had talked about this year's contest with her. He replied that nowadays the contest is very different, it used to be very strict and followed protocol, but lately the contests have thrown in a lot of "gimmicks". He also said that when Emily participated, she had the advantage of the contest being held in HK.

January 12, 2007

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