Bowie Tsang Po Yee (; born 21 February 1973) is a

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television host, singer, actress, and writer. She is also known by her nickname Ah-Po ().

Career

She graduated with a bachelor's degree in

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from

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in 1995. While in college, she worked as an assistant producer at Zhen Yan She, a subsidiary of

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. When she returned to Hong Kong, she worked different jobs behind the camera, such as being a script supervisor and production assistant, as her father, actor

Eric Tsang Eric Tsang Chi-wai (; born 14 April 1953) is a Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, and television host, best known for hosting the variety show '' Super Trio series'' on the Hong Kong television network TVB over 18 years. He currently hol ...

, did not want support her career within the entertainment industry. Tsang returned to Taiwan in 1997 and her first screen appearance as a host on

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(formerly CTN). She was discovered by Taiwanese producer

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, who signed Tsang to her management company in 1999. From 1999 to 2003, she released six albums. Tsang is well known in

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for her roles in television dramas. She won Best Entertainment Program Host at the 2013

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. In 2019, she was the interviewer on

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's documentary series, ''The Eve of Tomorrow.''

Personal life

Tsang has a younger sister and two younger half brothers. Her parents are

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actor

and his first wife, Taiwanese actress Wang Mei Hua (王美華). Her half brother

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(from her father's second marriage) is also an actor. While her father stays in Hong Kong for his acting career, Tsang currently lives in Taiwan with her mother and her siblings. She speaks

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Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...

Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhej ...

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, and some

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Selected filmography

Hosting

* TVBS-G《Super Live 3-5》 * 台灣電視公司《綜藝旗艦 Hello Jacky!》 * TVBS-G《晚安各位觀眾》 * TVBS-G《哈囉各位觀眾》 * 飛碟電台《飛碟小點心，寶貝七點鐘》 * 香港亞洲電視《亞洲星光大道》 *

Taiwan Television Taiwan Television Enterprise, Ltd. (), commonly known as TTV and formerly known as Central Television and Voice of Taiwan, is the first terrestrial television station in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was established on April 28, 1962, and ...

- 百萬小學堂 * ''Let's Go Home'' (2020) * ''Let's Go Home'' (2022; season 2) * ''Music Viva Viva'' (2022)

As actress

Discography

Bibliography

* 《阿寶靚湯》 * 《阿寶靚湯2：寶媽寶妹幸福湯》 * 《阿寶靚湯3：美人湯．孕婦湯42品》 * 《阿寶靚湯4：40道養生美容素食湯方》 * 《寶媽寶妹交換日記：不能和媽媽說的事》

References

External links

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