My World Earth News: TV

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

‘Naked chef’ to debut on Hong Kong adult channel

Floria Cheung Ching-sze wants to get men interested (in cooking): “(The apron) covers pretty much everything but hides nothing.

A Hong Kong adult channel is set to debut a cooking show headlined by a nude host who will prepare Cantonese dishes wearing a transparent apron — an apparent bid to encourage more men to cook.

Host Flora Cheung will start each 30-minute show shopping for fresh ingredients in the city’s famous wet markets, undressing once she is back in the privacy of her studio kitchen, the South China Morning Post reported.

Cheung, who admits she has never worked in a restaurant kitchen, said she hoped the risqué show would draw more men into the kitchen. The first episode is set to air later this month.

“I have always liked cooking and I thought I should share (the) enjoyment with more people,” the 26-year-old told the Post.

“Most men don’t like to cook, but I want to get them interested . . . From shopping to cooking — it’s the whole shebang,” Cheung added.

The host promised that her tailor-made, transparent apron would not leave much to the imagination.

“It covers pretty much everything but hides nothing,” she was quoted as saying.

Producer Jesse Au told the paper that the show might spawn similar offerings, with nude hosts cooking up a range of Asian cuisine: “This could be an endless series if it proves popular.”

Friday, August 21, 2009

Is Caster Semenya female or male ?

South African Community Outraged by Debate Over Athlete's Gender .

After South African runner Caster Semenya won the gold medal in the World Championship women's 800-meter race in Berlin, she was asked to undergo gender testing due to her masculine appearance.

The L. A. Times writes that Semenya has always been boyish. Since she was in elementary school, she would play soccer with the boys, wear pants instead of skirts, and was teased about looking like a boy. Her high school principal thought she was male until she was in the 11th grade.

However, the teasing never seemed to bother her and she kept on running.

Now her appearance is throwing into question whether her triumph at the Championship is legitimate. And testing for gender can take weeks.

Everyone who knows Semenya is certain that she's a girl. According to The Associated Press, no one has even questioned it. Her father told interviewers that "She is a woman and I can repeat that a million times."

She came almost out of nowhere to win the world championship in the 800 meters Wednesday in Berlin, far and away the fastest woman on the track.

Or was she?

Her time of 1 minute, 55.45 seconds was more than 2 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher, but now Semenya's gender is the subject of an international investigation.

Even before Berlin, track officials were taking a closer look at the 18-year-old runner, following her performance last month at an international meet where she improved her personal bests in the 800 and 1,500 meters by huge margins.

Her family is outraged at suggestions that Semenya, who has a muscular build and a deep voice, isn't a woman.

"That's how God made her," Semenya's cousin, Evelyn Sekgala, told The Associated Press. "We brought her up in a way that when people start making fun of her, she shouldn't get upset."

Her father, Jacob, has no doubts.