Kevin Tsai (; born 1 March 1962) is a Taiwanese television host and writer. He co-hosts

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'' with hostess

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Early life

Tsai was born to a wealthy family. His father was a well known lawyer and his family was briefly in the shipping business. Tsai went to private schools for his pre–bachelor education, and he entered

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to study foreign language in 1984.

Career

In 1990, Kevin Tsai graduated from

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with a

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in TV Production and moved back to Taiwan. He began working as the director of Voice of Taipei Radio Station, and later on the Chief Editor of GQ – Taiwan. In 2004, Tsai was joined by his fellow hostess

in hosting the TV program

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and his popularity skyrocketed from his style and banter. Tsai has also been frequenting the

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. Partnered with

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(1 time) and

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(1 time), Kevin Tsai has been presenting the award show since 2001. Tsai is also a writer. He has written seven different books and many of them became Taiwan's

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s as well as writing comedy material in his popular talk show. In October 2015, Tsai and Dee Hsu both announced to end their hosting duties of their show to move on to other commitments. Their final show was taped in December 2015 and broadcast in January 2016. After the show ended, Tsai wrote and directed his first feature film, ''Didi's Dream'', with Hsu as the lead in a dual role. Tsai said the film was a passion project and made for supporters of his and Hsu's talk show.

Personal life

Tsai is openly

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. During a program hosted by

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in 2002, Kevin Tsai openly acknowledged his

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while pointing out that there was still much work to be done in Taiwan's

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. http://mail.nhu.edu.tw/~society/e-j/22/22-09.htm Title: "Double Standard: Media throws mud over LGBT." Article by ''郭明旭'' Forwarded by ''Nanhua University - Taiwan''

Bibliography

Tsai has written seven books, including: * *, published 1996 *, published 1996 *''Those brilliant things the guys gave to me'' (), published 2004

Filmography

Film

Hosting

Awards ceremony

Variety show

Music video appearances

Awards & nominations

Golden Bell Awards

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References

External links

Kevin Tsai's Sina Microblog （蔡康永新浪微博）

Kevin Tsai related Videos on YouTube
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