Tracy Ip Chui Chui (; born 10 September 1981 in

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with family roots in Shanghai) was

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2005.

Background

Coming from a family of four, Ip lives with her parents. Her mother wanted to compete at Miss Hong Kong but due to her father's marriage, she gave up. Ip grew up in Hong Kong and studied at

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for a few years. In the early 2000s, she returned to Hong Kong and entered the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, majoring in fashion design. She was also a part-time model with the Elite, modelling in some shows and commercials. She entered the Elite Look of the Year (HK) 2001 contest, making the top 24 but did not win anything in the end. In 2005 she competed in the 2005 Miss Hong Kong competition.

Miss Hong Kong 2005

Ip was trained with 19 other delegates for three months. She visited the

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affected areas like

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and

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during her training. After that, on 20 August 2005, she competed at the HK Colliseum for the Miss Hong Kong 2005 crown. Even though she had negative news regarding surgery on her nose, she had a flawless performance and took the crown. She also received the title of Miss Charity. After that, she hosted some shows and performed in many charity shows in Hong Kong.

Miss World 2005

Being considered a good representative for Hong Kong, Ip competed in

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, China for the Miss World 2005 title. She started out well for having some common "features" of former Miss World semi-finalists from Hong Kong (like Maggie Cheung of 1983 and Pauline Yeung of 1987, all had lived/studied in England). She placed seventh in the Asia Pacific team and was close to winning the fast track event,

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. Ip also made the top 19 of the

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, which stunned many pageant fans. Ip also sold 35,000

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for her globe that was donated and auctioned at a charity dinner. It was the item that raised the most money that night. She returned to Hong Kong on 10 December.

Miss Chinese International 2006

On 28 December 2005, Ip attended a press conference for the

Miss Chinese International Miss Chinese International Pageant (, formerly 國際華裔小姐競選), or MCI () for short, is an annual international beauty pageant, organized and broadcast by TVB, a network television station in Hong Kong. It was established in 1988 and th ...

2006 pageant. Being a favourite from the start, Ip was expected to place in the top 3, and might even take the crown. Surprisingly, Ip was shut out of the top 5 of the pageant. She only received a side award as a consolation. She is only one a few Miss Hong Kong winners to not make the top 5 in the history of the pageant.

Personal

Tracy Ip is married to Raymond Chow. The couple delivered their first child, a baby boy on 11 April 2017.

Afterwards

Ip afterwards hosted TVB shows like ''EBuzz''. She also signed a contract with TVB to start in some dramas. On 12 August 2006, she gave her crown and duties to

Aimee Chan Aimee Chan (born 1 April 1981) or Chan Yan-mei (Traditional Chinese: 陳茵媺) is a Canadian born actress based in Hong Kong. She was the winner of Miss Hong Kong 2006 and was offered a TVB contract shortly after. Biography Aimee was born in T ...

Yan Mei, Miss Hong Kong 2006. She also presented an award to Mr. Hong Kong 2006, Francois Huynh (Wong Cheung Fat) as he was the Handsome Group winner.

Filmography

Television

Film

External links

Official TVB blog of Tracy Ip
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