Charmaine Sheh and Joe Ma Tak Chung were in Shanghai earlier to promote upcoming series, "The Drive of Life" 《歲月風雲》. Allegedly, Charmaine was busy chatting with Raymond Lam Fung and did not even greet Joe.
Charmaine was filming at TVB studio yesterday and explained, "There were over a dozen artists at the Shanghai function. It was difficult to talk to everyone. Although I did not chat with Joe extensively, I remember I did greet him."
Charmaine noted that Joe was bothered by the media reports. Since Joe could not make it to Charmaine's birthday party this year, the press blew the incident out of proportion.
Joe was disappointed by the realities of the entertainment industry. Without collaborating on a series together, then there will be rumors of disagreement.
Since Joe had to travel with his wife to work in China, he could not attend Charmaine's birthday party. Charmaine and Joe are good friends and the two did not draw their boundaries.
Will Charmaine request Joe's early arrival to her birthday party next year? Charmaine said it was too early to speak about it; perhaps they will be working then.
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[Ta Kung Pao 16/06/07]
Charmaine Denies Animosity with Joe Ma
Charmaine Sheh and Joe Ma have been busy recently with promotional activity for their new series "The Drive of Life", but the reporters have been more interested in their apathy towards each other. Filming yesterday for new series "Steel Lips Silver Teeth", Charmaine was asked about this and she explains: "There were over ten people there that day and it was not possible to speak to everyone, but I do remember greeting Joe. We just did not speak for too long."
She says that Joe has also been irritated by the reports, beucase they have made a big deal about him not attending my birthday party, sighing that the industry is very materialistic, if you do not work together then you have fallen out. Charmaine says that she and Joe have been friends all along and the reason he was absent from her party was that he was busy working in the Mainland with his wife. So will she notify him earlier for her next birthday party? She laughs that she will leave this until next year and maybe she will not have a party if she is working. She adds that in this industry, people will write about you regardless of what you do, but it is better than not having anything written about you, so you just treat it as promotion.
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