Compiled by MARTIN CARVALHO, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
MALAYSIAN singer Jeryl Lee Pei Ling became a trending topic on social media after getting second place in the reality TV singing competition The Next Singer, Sin Chew Daily reported.
Among the top most searched terms on Weibo were “Lee Pei Ling sings so well” and “why wasn’t it Lee Pei Ling?”
Lee, 24, got a total score of 187.27 for her rendition of My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark by Fall Out Boy and Keep Me By Your Side by Eason Chan.
Her score was just 0.59 lower than Chinese contender Pax Congo, who was crowned the champion.
As the runner-up, Lee lost a free pass to appear on the prestigious Singer 2025 reality singing competition next year.
Lee, who hails from Penang, is no stranger to reality TV competitions. In September last year, she beat more than 25 other contestants to clinch victory in the singing contest The Next Singer.
She became a well-known face when she performed in Beijing’s famous Bird’s Nest Stadium in 2016 at the grand finals of the Sing! China competition.
She beat 14 other international singers and became one of the six finalists in the competition.
> Sin Chew Daily also reported that things appear to be getting serious between Malaysian actress Lin Min Chen and Hong Kong boy band member Edan Lui after the two were seen cuddling at a night market in Taiwan.
Lui, who was photographed wearing a bucket hat, draped his arm on Lin’s shoulders as the pair went around the market recently.
Back in September, the 27-year-old Lui, who is seven years Lin’s junior, admitted that he was courting Lin.
“I do not want her reputation to be affected. This is my final response on the matter.
“Min Chen is a nice woman. I have feelings for her and I am courting her.“I hope there is room for the relationship to develop in the future.
“I hope everyone can give us some space and not make any further speculation,” he said then.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item.
