Benjamin Yuen

Benjamin Yuen, also known as Benjamin Yuen Wai Ho (Simplified Chinese: 袁伟豪; Traditional Chinese: 袁偉豪, born May 11, 1981) is the current Mr. Hong Kong 2007. Benjamin is the first winner from Hong Kong as the previous two winners, Matthew Ko and Francois Huynh came from Toronto, Canada and France respectively.

Family

Benjamin has a dad who is a police officer. He also has a supportive mother and a younger sister. His younger sister is also his nominator for the School Grass competition in 1997 and for Mr. Hong Kong 2007.

Career in Entertainment Industry

Benjamin started his career when he won the Yes! Magazine's School Grass Contest (校草選舉) in 1997. He was later reached with a contact by model agencies and officially became a model. This opened many other opportunely as Benjamin went on to act in a number of movies and started in a Vitasoy Commercial in 1998. However in 2000, his popularity started to decrease and his last film was 香港處男. From then on Benjamin had little work and eventually he had to leave the industry in 2002. He went out to do shipping for many wedding parties and helped design the area. He went on to find a job in Causeway Bay as a marketing executive and competed in the 3rd Mr. Hong Kong contest to reenter the entertainment industry after leaving it in 2002.

Mr. Hong Kong 2007

Benjamin entered the contest as a local candidate. He was a big favorite in the competition due to his past background in commercials and films. During the preliminary and secondary interviews, he bought along a guitar to play, in which eventually made him to choose the guitar as his talent in the finals. After he was selected as #7 in the contest, there were rumors everywhere from newspapers to reporters circulating that he was a playboy and liked to play at night. Benjamin openly admitted to the deeds but said that the word playboy shouldn't be used to describe the deeds. He explained that he liked to form bands and play with his friends. There were new rules in the contest this year. One of them was the renaming of the groups. In 2005 and 2006, the contestants were grouped as Style and Fitness. However this year, the contestants who were 22 or younger were listed in the Young group and 23 or older were in the Mature group. Due to his age, he was in the Mature group formerly known as the fitness group. On August 11, 2007, he competed for the Mr. Hong Kong 2007 title. For the talent he chose to play and sing the song 浪子心聲 with a guitar. The song was originally sang by Samuel Hui. Afterwards he competed in swimsuit and interview. The interview question was also considered embarrassing as the topic was based on whether men liked sex. Benjamin openly admitted to liking both women and sex. Despite a good performance in the three competitions, he lost to #11 Hu Zhiwei for the Mature Group title. Despite this, Benjamin went on to win the Back to Life competition, an all new competition established by TVB to give a chance for the contestants who did not win a group title to get back into the competition and fight for the title. Benjamin went on to win the Mr. Hong Kong title after a strong performance in martial arts which was the last and final round of the top 3.

Mr. Hong Kong 2007 Scores and placements

Talent Portion: 109 Votes (3rd place in Mature group)

Swimsuit: 292 Votes (1st place in Mature Group)

Total: 401 Votes (2nd place Overall in Mature Group)

Afterwards the bar chart was used to announce the winner of the Young and Mature group, the winner of the Back to Life competition, and the overall winner. The bar chart had 16 boxes and the one who had the most boxes filled up was the winner.

Interview: No votes were taken

Mature Group: All 16 boxes out of 16 filled. However there was a tie between Benjamin and #11 Hu Zhiwei in which Hu had all his boxes filled. However Hu had three more votes making him the Mature Group winner.

Back to Life Competition: All 16 boxes out of 16 filled.

Final competition between Young, Mature, and Back to Life winners: All 16 boxes out of 16 filled.

Filmography

*1998：新古惑仔之少年激鬥篇 飾 巢皮
*1999：烈火戰車2之極速傳說
*1999：薄餅速遞
*1999：鬼咁過癮
*1999：還我情心
*1999：中華英雄
*1999：死蠢
*1999：鬼片王之再現凶榜
*1999：串燒三兄弟
*2000：好兄吾兄
*2000：不死情謎
*2000：猛鬼情迷
*2000：偷吻
*2000：香港處男

Commercials

1998

*Vitasoy

2007

*MediBeauty for Man

*Promotion Clip for Mr. Hong Kong 2007

*Hong Tai Traveling Agency 4S (Sea, Ski, Spa, and hot Spring,) Promotion

hows hosted

*2001: Wire Television YMC Channel "YMC People We Wet Web"
*2007: 終極奪獎SHOW

Music Videos

2007

*Boyfriend of Janice Vidal in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMnxn9WsyQs 無所謂]

Awards

*1997: [http://www.yesmagazine.com.hk/ Yes!] Magazine's School Grass Contest Winner (校草選舉冠軍)

*2007: Mr. Hong Kong 2007 Winner (2007年度香港先生選舉冠軍) and Live Audience's Pick for Mr. Hong Kong 2007 (現場女性眼中的香港先生)

External links

* [http://www.benjaminyuen.com Mr Benjamin 袁偉豪官方網站] (Personal website and fan site) zh
* [http://www.yuenwaiho.com IS BENJAMIN] (Personal fan site) zh
* [http://tvcity.tvb.com/special/mrhk2007/profile/07.html Mr. Hong Kong 2007 Profile 香港先生競選的個人介紹網頁] zh
* [http://blog.tvb.com/BenjaminYuen/?&blogid=30 Official TVB Blog 袁偉豪網誌] zh
* [http://www.benjamin-yuen.net Benjamin Online] (Personal fan site) zh