TVB Celebrity News

Austin Wai has been in over 70 films and countless martial arts TV series. A few days ago, he was found dead in his home in Beijing, he was 55. His younger sister, Kara Hui, had always been in touch with him by phone, but lately she lost contact with him.

As everything was so sudden, Kara was initially shooting her last scene in the series she had been working on in Hangzhou, but experiencing the lost of a loved one, Kara immediately stopped work and flew to Beijing to see her brother. Yesterday afternoon at 2pm, Kara appeared at the Beijing airport. She said sobbing: "I'm not going to hotel yet, going to the mortuary to see my brother first. I hope all the formalities will be done today. My sister and I hope to ship our brother's body back to HK, but if the Beijing authorities want us to first cremate the body, we will comply. Actually my brother's children really wants to see their father for the last time too and they will decide the funeral arrangements."

Austin's death is still a mystery, Kara was asked if she knew the cause of his death? She said: "I know he had gone too far with losing weight. He had been over exercising and eating very little. Perhaps he's body couldn't handle it anymore!" Asked if her mother knows about Austin's death? Kara said: "Not yet, we don't want to break her heart!"

In fact, in the past six months before Austin's death, he often made weight loss declarations on Weibo. He hoped to quickly lose 10 pounds within half a month. In May, he already lost 20 pounds, and posted pictures of his vegetarian light meal.

Martial arts star, Austin Wai Tin Chi, passed away in Beijing on October 4th at the age of 55. He recently moved to Beijing and last night, there was news of his death. His younger sister, Kara Hui sorrowfully confirmed the news. She hurried and flew to Beijing to bring her brother's body back to HK. The funeral arrangements will also be held in HK.

Kara reveals she couldn't get in touch with her brother for several days. Last night, Austin's manager discovered that he had passed away in his home in Beijing. The cause of his death is currently unknown. Austin's ex-wife was notified of his death, she signed and said life is unpredictable. Although the two have been separated for nearly 10 years, but she will allow their 16 year old son to be filial to him.

Austin was a popular martial arts star in the 70s and 80s. He was active in both the film and TV industries. Recently he moved to Beijing and rarely appeared in HK. Last night at 7:30pm, Kara announced the bad news on Weibo. She expressed in sorrow: "I am feeling very very sad. My brother, RIP. You will definitely leave well. I miss you!"

Kara accepted an interview over the phone and expressed because she has been unable to reach her brother in the last several days, she was extremely worried. Yesterday she contacted Austin's manager, the manager said once he opened the door to his home, he found Austin's body lying there. Kara immediately called the police. As she was in Hangzhou at the time, she immediately flew to Beijing to find out what was happening because they did not have any family in Beijing.

The last time we heard from Austin was on September 21st, he left a message on Weibo expressing he's health condition is not doing well. His final words were: "It's not that I don't want to update my Weibo, recently my health isn't well. First it was my arthritis pain, I went to see the doctor a month ago and now I have lots of mucus in my coughs. I had trouble breathing. I had done many physicals and still nothing is good. Later I went to the pharmacy to get medicine for 5 days, after the second day, I got a lot better. Troubling me to death."

Depended on the film Bodyguards and Assassins, Kara Hui swept 7 awards. Yesterday a celebration was held for her at Tseung Kwan O. TVB Executive Virgina Lok, Producer Lee Tim Shing and Miu Siu Ching attended, making Kara get red eyes. Virgina also took the opportunity to announce that Kara recently signed a TVB management contract. The end of the year is approaching and she's signing now, is she worried that this might attract gossips that she's using the contract to exchange for an award? Kara said: "I've been in the industry for so long, I know how pitiful it is to have no one write about you. I am invulnerable, people can say whatever they want." Speaking of the TV Queen battle, Kara expressed: "Of course Sheren Tang is good, Charmaine Sheh made a breakthrough, Fala Chen also done very well. The three of them are my friends, whoever gets it, is well deserved."

Golden Horse Film Queen Kara Hui already swept 6 awards in Hong Kong, Mainland and Taiwan for her role in At the End of Daybreak. Recently she makes another victory at the Vladivostok International Film Festival held in Russia. She was crowned Best Actress at the awards ceremony, making a total of 7 awards. Through a telephone interview, Kara said: "The film festival had many other international films participating, this time gaining recognition outside of Asia, I am so happy! I heard the news and was so happy my heart almost jumped out! Earlier I thought I had no chance to even go to the festival, and felt pitiful." Also, yesterday Kara attended the opening ceremony for "Film Professional Training Program 2010", Kara expressed that she only found about the best actress news after she got off work and felt excited for a few days. She laughed: "I finally caught up with Nick Cheung's 7 award record, but At the End of Daybreak did not participate in the Golden Rooster & Hundred Flowers Film Festival, and Nick is participating. If he wins an award there, then he'll be ahead of me again."

Kara Hui was crowned Best Actress again at the Hong Kong Film Awards for her role in after 28 years. The night before, she especially attended the finale celebration dinner after the ceremony. The cast of celebrated with her, the male leads Kevin Cheng and Kenneth Ma give her a kiss to the Best Actress. She then happily kissed each female guest on the lips to thank them.

That night, Kara went on stage and gave a moving thank you speech. When speaking of her "stupid" actions of attempt suicide, she has to especially thank Chung Wai Ping and Meg Lam (Sa Jeh). Kara explained that Chung Wai Ping is her 20+ year good friend, they grew up together and she felt that whenever she has something on her mind, she would always go cry and talk about it with Wai Ping. When she wanted to commit suicide, Wai Ping knew about it and tried her best to help. Although Sa Jeh's health was not well, she still provided all the support she can. For these reasons, Kara had to especially thank them. After crying emotionally on stage, she and everyone else held a huge celebration. However, when she thought about that the award really is real, she cried again.

She laughed and said that for this award, she "lost half her life". Because she was so anxious for the award ceremony, she wanted to look her best in her evening dress, so she didn't eat and had stomach pains from the hungry. Asked if she taken any medication before going on stage? She said that she aready taken medication prescribed by her doctor.

Kara admitted that she is happier about the HK film award than the Golden Horse award because this one relates to a span of 28 years. Within these years there has been times of ups and downs.

Kara Hui attended TVB series "A Fistful of Stances" celebration event. She revealed that she will have a sad ending in the finale of the series. She also exposed that Kevin was very upset about the low ratings previously but the ratings have risen from 23 points to 33 points. The whole cast are very happy with the results. Kara will attend the "Hong Kong Film Awards" this coming Sunday. This is the reason why the cast and crew have organised to celebrate early. Kara hopes the series continues to receive high ratings and that she will be awarded the Hong Kong Movie Queen award.