Bobo Chan

Bobo Chan
陳文媛
Born (1979-09-18) 18 September 1979 (age 45)
British Hong Kong
Occupations
  • Singer
  • actress
  • model
  • entrepreneur
Years active2001–2008
Children1
Musical career
GenresPop
InstrumentVocals
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese陳文媛
Simplified Chinese陈文媛
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinchen2 wen2 yuan2
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingcan4 man4 jyun6

Bobo Chan Man-woon (Chinese: 陳文媛, born 18 September 1979) is a former Hong Kong singer and model. She was also an actress in several film and TV-series.

Life and career

Bobo's first film role was in 1999's Tempting Heart. In 2001, she debut her first CD, titled Shine. Between 2003 and 2005, she joined TVB and was featured in four of their dramas before parting ways. In between 2005 and 2008, Bobo reduced her involvement with acting and focused on other projects until the infamous leak of Edison Chen's scandal photos affected her career.

Photo scandal

Main article: Edison Chen photo scandal

In January and February 2008, explicit photos were found online involving Chan and Edison Chen. Compromising pics of Bobo privately posing nude and performing fellatio for Edison were leaked over the internet. The scandal also involved Gillian Chung, Cecilia Cheung, and others.[1] The photos badly affected Bobo's career and personal life: strong public scrutiny, cancellation of media contracts, ending all product endorsements in her image, and the end of her engagement. Bobo went into seclusion along with those involved in the photos for over a year in hopes to return when public scrutiny has lessened. She traveled to the US for a time to avoid the media storm to find some peace; unfortunately, even after a year, it remained in public consciousness.

Retirement

Eventually, Gillian, Cecilia, and Edison successfully returned to the entertainment industry, however, Bobo never returned. Bobo decided to leave the entertainment industry and focus on managing a crystal gem shop, Crystal Jamming, in the summer of 2009. In a small public ceremony with some entertainment friends and press upon the opening of her crystal boutique in the North Point district of Hong Kong, she made it clear she would be leaving the entertainment industry to start a more quiet existence to avoid causing further trouble to the people closest to her.[2]

Personal life

Chan had an affair with Edison Chen until mid-2004, when it was reported that the two broke up. Later, she dated the wealthy businessman Jin Ziyao, but they also broke up. By 2015, she met a fellow member of her church; the two married on November 26, 2016 in To Kwa Wan. Chan gave birth to a son in 2019. The family of three lives a low-key life.[3]

Discography

  • Shine (2001)
  • Bounce (2002)
  • Graceful (2002)
  • BoBo Chan – Phase 1 The Retrospect (2003)
  • Fantasia (2005)

Filmography

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Television series

References

  1. ^ batgwa.com. "batgwa.com Archived 2009-04-02 at the Wayback Machine." Edison's Conquests Sex Photos – Suspect Arrested Retrieved on 31 January 2008.
  2. ^ Sun, Andrew; Chen, Vivian (21 August 2009). "Star linked to sex-photos scandal gets on with life at shop opening". South China Morning Post.
  3. ^ "陳冠希前任陳文媛一家三口出行，打工仔老公長相平凡，兒子太可愛". 15 June 2021. Archived from the original on 12 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Bobo Chan". IMDb. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  5. ^ "Bobo Chan". chinesemov.com. Retrieved 14 April 2010.