Judges Tulisa Contostavlos, Kelly Rowland and Louis Walsh looked on in horror in tonight's opening episode of The X Factor, as Chinese contestant Goldie Cheung writhed around on Gary Barlow's lap.
48-year-old Goldie Cheung, a tai chi instructor from Hong Kong almost didn't make it on stage after being sick several times before arriving at her audition, but after some deliberation, she appeared in front of the judges wearing a skimpy black and red ensemble.
And things were about to get even more risqué, when Goldie broke into a rendition of Copper Bell by Anita Mui, treating Gary to a provocative dance in the process.
Source: Metro
Watch Goldie Cheung X factor 2011 audition on Youtube below
BBCZeitgeist Commentary: Having investigated this story, not all is as it appears, Goldie Cheung is in fact Goldie Webb Cheung 豹姨 - She has performed her routines many times for public audiences including Hong Kong TVB Channel in front of a panel that included Aaron Kwok.
Facebook Goldie Cheung fan page accumulated 600+ members overnight after her tasteless performance was broadcast on X Factor on Saturday night - with its fair share of racist comments from non-Chinese posters.
When performed to a western audience, Goldie Cheung is labelled the Chinese Tina Turner or perhaps more apt...the Dragon Lady meets William Hung. This begs the question, can Chinese acts, in particular FOB acts on western talent shows only appeal to western audiences if they're a joke, as something to laugh at?
Couldnt watch it all, made me cringe.
ReplyDeleteChinese hardly appears on British TV, and when they do, it's usually something bad/embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteShe was SO hot.
ReplyDeleteOh man, what is a old chicken like that prancing on stage doing!!?!!!?
ReplyDeleteEmbarrassing, i don't believe she realises she is so bad, the sad thing is that the programme makers are encouraging it, and secretly taking the mick.
I laughed hard at first then felt sick. This was wrong, wrong, WRONG! Her poor children.....
ReplyDeletethese comments verges on nastiness. typical
ReplyDeletechris li
I hope you know what you're doing, pasting someone's mobile phone number on a site like this.
ReplyDeleteI looked on her facebook page - there aren't really a "fair share" of racist comments. One or two in fact, the one's that you listed. Bit of an exaggeration, yet again!
ReplyDeleteHer son was probably conceived as a result of that performance, although her white husband probably asked her sing sucky sucky 10 dollar instead of copperbell.
ReplyDeleteyou know what, its not so much that her performance is embarassing. its the way that x-factor framed it - they probably called up a hong kong agent. judging from the aaron kwok video above she no doubt does this for a living in uk, and x-factor paid for her to perform.
ReplyDeletebasically, she is doing what she does, but because its on UK tv, and we are used to seeing chinese women as being portrayed as dragon women, her presence only reminds us of this.
whether there were 20 or 30 racist comments or 2 or 3 on her facebook page makes no difference. its the lack of positive images we have had of chinese women on british tv in general, ( eg dvd eastenders woman, etc ) and in this case, women, that makes her act into a suggestively racist portrayal. her being a FOB probably, typically, wasnt aware of this .
and this is exactly why chinese - all chinese - need to be aware of insidious racist western media.
I doubt she has a Hong Kong agent, shes a British citizen, that was a global talent show on TVB, she was representing the UK. Its matter of interpretation, for example no doubt a lot of older white men with Asian feitsh will think what she's doing is very positive.
ReplyDeleteNot really, I could have given out her home address. Btw, her phone number is widely advertised for booking tai chi classes and public performances etc, I'm sure theres a plethora of people who would love her to perform her routine for their wedding or...their funeral. Such risque breast rubbing routines are all the rage in some East Asian sub-cultural funerals.
Its also interesing, Catherine Hakim a sociologist at the London School of Economics has published a book called 'Honey Money: The Power Of Erotic Capital,' we all know sex sells, erotic capital is a woman's best asset, Goldie who is a poor singer decided to go straight for the sex sell and made it through to the next round of x-factor. Need we say more? Do you think a Chinese man who performed a song as sexually as that like a Chippendale would have made it through?
ReplyDeleteYour all crazy Goldie is great enterainment
ReplyDeleteshe was a prostitute in china. after she move hongkong. after she have some body problem she work in club as a singer using her sexy body.
ReplyDeletenow she go usa for making drama.
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ReplyDeleteI watch the x factor during the weekend with goldie cheung struting her stuff...
ReplyDeletedesparate and tragic.
ah, we dont have this show broadcast in the Far East, I'll have to catch up on it later on youtube maybe, did Goldie Cheung make through to the next round or was she eliminated?
ReplyDeleteGot through but she decided to leave
ReplyDeleteWhy did she decide to leave ?
ReplyDeletebecause she realised she had no talent and that louis was treating her like the joke she is? maybe??
ReplyDeletewhats asian woman on x factor goldie cheung doing for tricks since shes left xfactor? is she rubbing the copper bells of old white men?
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