Loletta Chu (born 7 September 1958 in Mandalay,

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) is a Chinese actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the winner of the 1977

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Early life

Chu was born in Mandalay, Myanmar, in 1958 into an ethnic Chinese family, with roots in

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, China. In 1968 she and her family moved to

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, where she attended St. Teresa School,

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and King George V School. She did some modelling in her teen years.

1977 Miss Hong Kong

She participated in the 1977

and became the first candidate to win both the title as well as a second, Miss Photogenic. Coincidentally, ever since Chu won both titles, the winner of the title Miss Photogenic became a good indication of who would eventually be the winner, or runners-up, of the competition. She represented Hong Kong at

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in the

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Personal life

She is the former wife of the late tycoon and philanthropist

Henry Fok Henry Fok Ying Tung (10 May 1923 – 28 October 2006) was a Hong Kong businessman. He has ancestral roots in Lianxi Village, Panyu, now part of Guangzhou, Guangdong. Fok was the vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's ...

's son, Timothy, with whom she has three sons,

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, Eric and Jeremy. Chu and Fok announced their divorce in September 2006, after more than two decades of marriage. She remarried, to Hong Kong real estate billionaire Vincent Lo of Shui On Group, in

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, Singapore in November 2008.

References

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