By Joanna Goh, 21/04/2011
It’s the biggest award ceremony in local showbiz and time of the year again for us to look into our crystal ball and predict the eventual winners for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes for Star Awards 2011
We know we sound like a broken tape recorder repeating the same ol’ stuff, but this we must reiterate.
The Top 20 (10 from each gender) Most Popular Male and Female Artiste Award is a voting game aka high school popularity contest that is anchored by a simple mechanism — the voting hotline. With the eventual outcome based on 50% votes and 50% public surveys, we say it’s time to pick up the phone and start dialling away lest you want to end up disappointed at the outcome on Sunday night.
Judging by forces of nature, and by that we mean fan clubs (or cult followings in some cases) and general public appeal, identifying the shoo-in winners of this category is as easy as A-B-C.
While popularity’s the main driving force of this voting game, we’re not forgetting the artistes who have slowly but steadily worked their way up the ladder, and the underdogs with undeniable onscreen likability.Who’s to emerge victorious and triumphant that night? We make our guesses…
Our take on the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes:
Winning Pedestal: Rui En, Jeanette Aw, Joanne Peh
And then there was three. What would be of the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes ranking if it fails to include the remaining trio from the original magnificent seven of Caldecott Hill?
The hottest — though no longer the youngest — commodities on the hill, it doesn’t take much to assume that they will are shoo-in winners for this category judging by sheer size of their expanding fan clubs. Year after year, they never fail to live up to expectations; we’re not expecting this year to be any different.
With Rui En taking on drama after drama projects, you see her on the 9pm drama slot almost all the time — don’t get us wrong, we’re not complaining bout that! She’s a versatile actress with the acting chops, sufficient TV exposure and a massive fan base. And while Jeanette’s currently missing in action with overseas filming commitment in Malaysia, the omnipresence of her fans is not one to be ignored — else how would you explain her On-screen couple (drama) win with Chris Lee last week?
Of course, we can’t forget 2010’s media darling Joanne. So what if she’s only had one drama last year (Your Hand In Mine)? This tech-savvy babe needs no promotional pushing from dramas for she’s been hogging the headlines with her outspoken take on baring it all for the cameras and of course, being the globetrotting face of Jetstar.
In the Safe Zone: Quan Yi Fong, Yvonne Lim, Vivian Lai, Tiffany Leong, Michelle Chia, Lin Pei Fen, Zhou Ying
They don’t enjoy massive fame and appeal like the three above but we daresay these ladies are in a completely different league of their own.
The Underdogs: Kym Ng, Michelle Chong
Source: XinMSN
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