Fiona Xie may have been avoiding the limelight for the past two years, but she can still draw a crowd in Singapore.
On Saturday evening, the former MediaCorp actress made her first public appearance here since quitting the local showbiz scene and moving to Hong Kong and New York in 2009.
Some 100 people of various ages gathered to gawk.
Including unsavoury ones, like one man who got a bit too close for comfort and touched her arm. Another, armed with a foldable stool, shamelessly pushed his way through Xie's inner circle and aimed his camera squarely at her chest.
The curvaceous 29-year-old was at Nex shopping centre as part of local magazine 8 Days' Ultimate Shirtless Guy competition.
The informal weekend hunt was the first of several searches leading up to the finals on Nov 26 where Xie will serve as the chief judge.
The original plan was for her to prowl the mall for hunks willing to strip and show off their six-packs.
Though she quickly found several muscular men who could fit the bill, Xie was forced to abort the mission after just 10 minutes when she was surrounded by a few over-eager male fans.
She then retreated to the registration booth for the rest of the 40-minute event because her manager became concerned about her safety.
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go take a poop, will you.
so constipated.
Don't quarrel... he just having a bad day... Don't fight and quarrel... have a beer and chill out...
This man scolds me for ranting but found him here cursing away.....
AWARE wants you.........
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Everybody, it seems, wants a piece of Fiona Xie.
Sightings here of the one-time Channel 8 darling, said to be living in New York, often spark a frenzy of tweets. Is she out of the country? Wasn't she at Holland Village?
And two years after the 29-year-old former MediaCorp actress quit the blockbuster TV drama Together at the eleventh hour and disappeared from the local showbiz scene, she popped up again.
The first thing Xie exclaimed in a phone interview with The New Paper was an excited "Honey, I'm home".
She's back in town for her first public appearance - a City Chain roadshow to be held tomorrow at 6.30pm at Nex shopping mall in Serangoon, where she'll be prowling .....
You used to many flowery description and they still dont play your account... you very heng man.... :D
If she is hoping that people will be nice to her... then she has not stayed in SG long enough. SG is a place fall of reality.
Why you suggesting give her break when nobody trying fix her ?
Don't try act good - at expense of others.:cool:
Altho I don't like her, I say "pl give her a break.... in order that her Depression no relapse!!"
As usual, you never failed to amuse me with your post ;):p
That was what she was famous for in SG... hahaha.
Famous, have lah... when she was new and not so much new faces...
She has so much energy then... Lol