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| 1998 Account by the crew of the variety show.in China Jimmy - When he's good, he's really good, but when he become mischievious, he'll scare you to death. Not sure if he had watched too much shows about emperors sneaking out of their palace, risking their life to go out and have fun. The difficulties he faced when he went around Malaysia on his own, trying out the cuisine, didn't scare him. This time in Chang Sha, he had also sneaked out on his own. Jimmy was invited for an appearance in a variety show and it was his first trip to Chang Sha. But Hunan is not an unfamiliar land to him, he has a relative in Xiang Tan and he hopes to meet this relative. Jimmy's safety was under our responsibility while he was in Chang Sha. Especially when we heard that he had faced some troubles with some fanatic fans in Malaysia, we didn't dare to neglect our responsibility on this little heavenly king's safety. It was said that when he was shopping around in a mall in Malaysia, so as to prevent fans from rushing up towards him, the mall was closed from the public just to serve Jimmy as the only customer. Beside him were 8 bodyguards but even they couldn't keep a close watch on him, and he actually sneaked out. Eventually, he was recognised by his fans and created some commotions. Jimmy is actually very obedient, there's hardly a young artiste like him who has received such good training. Just that he had attain fame at too young an age and had lost too much precious times of freedom. It's the nature of boys to take risks, just wanting to go out and have fun. And he's often held back by bodyguards, this is the difficulty a young star have to face. But once he step out and being recognised by others, the situation would go out of control and become very dangerous, the people who hold him back were also thinking for his own safety. On the day of the rehearsal for the variety show, everywhere is filled with teenagers. After the rehearsal, the director haven't announced the end, but these fans all rushed towards Jimmy, pushing him to the side. The securities went through the difficulties to save him out. Seeing such situation, who would dare to allow him to walk around the streets on his own? We request him that he must inform us if he wants to go out, and his manager has also agreed. But no matter what we say is useless, Jimmy would try all means to sneak out. During the rehearsal around 11pm, we thought he would be tired and go back to have a good rest, but little did we know that he keep from us and having no idea how he managed to get past the eyes of his manager, he was driven off by his relative and circled around Xiang Tan. What we don't understand is: In such a dark night, what's there to see in Xiang Tan? On the second day, after we knew that he had been to Xiang Tan, we called his manager, "Jimmy often sneak out, this is not allowed, what if something happens to him?" His manager said, "He shouldn't have!" There was going to be a live broadcast on the second night, so the day was time to rest. Jimmy and his relative had secretly planned to go to Mount Yu, but seeing that there's fog along the way, and not daring to drive too fast, moreover the travelling time was too long, afraid that without enough rest, this would affect his performance, Jimmy eventually didn't carry out his plan. Although he didn't manage to go to Mount Yu, he didn't return back to rest either. Instead, he spent the whole day in the shooting range shooting. Later we asked him, "You were ever a soldier, haven't you had enough of shootings? He replied, "The model of the rifle is different, I'd like to try them out." We booked an air ticket for him for the next day, guess what now? The next early morning, we couldn't find a sign of him. With Jimmy sneaking out like that, there's not a time we're not worried, thinking back to it is still scary. After the completion of the show, the director and Longmei wanted to meet him in his hotel. When they stepped out of the lobby, they saw hundreds of young teenagers outside the food street, and thought, "Is Jimmy around here?" And they tried to squeeze their way through to have a look, but the security stopped them. Longmei asked, "Is Jimmy having supper in there?" The security thought that these 2 ladies are among the fans and replied with suspicion, "Don't know where these kids got this news, saying that Jimmy staying in our hotel, there's no such thing." They couldn't help laughing and immediately make known about their identity. Only then did the security guard allow them to enter. Jimmy was really in the food street. Looking onwards from far, they can see him vaguely. Anytime, he would smile and wave and the fans became very excited. That day, fortunately his assistant collected all the books from the fans and handed them to him to sign, after that distributed them back again, only then were the fans willing to leave. There were still about 20 fans who refuse to leave after they got his autograph. Seeing that it's snowing outside, the security were worried that the teens would stand in the cold and settled them down to sleep for the night on the sofas. Jimmy had been well brought up and pays attention to his own image. He maintains his best condition in public places, and there's always a smile on his face. He is very warm towards everyone, even when there's requests for phototaking and autographs. When he was performing 'Xiang Xiang Nuer Hong' (something to do with wine) in the show, he even specially changed the song title "Rainy Season When 17" to "Rainy Season When 18", because in Taiwan, alcohol consumption is only allow at 18. We thought, if these fans don't idolise blindly, but learn from the growing experience and good examples of stars, allowing them to learn the good trainings in the different areas, idolising may not be a bad thing after all. But there's some kids who just want the stars autograph. In the hotel, a group of teens want Longmei to think of a way to get them Jimmy's autograph. Some hotel clients couldn't understand the mindset of these teens, and a young man said aloud, "What's the use of an autograph? Will it sell for money?" Wonder how would Jimmy feel if he heard this? Chinese article source from Simao |
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