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Quan Yifeng On Her Best Host Win: “The Heavens Forgot To Give Me A Blissful Marriage, But Happiness Will Still Find You In Other Ways”
She also apologised to her daughter Eleanor Lee for not spending more time with her while she was growing up.
21 APR 2021 11:30
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When Quan Yifeng was named Best Host at the last Sunday's Star Awards, the 47-year-old surprised everyone when she burst into tears during her speech.
Now, getting so emotional would have been normal for people who don't get to go on stage often, but for Yifeng, who is no stranger to winning awards (she's dominated the category since 2017, hello?), it was just... strange.
Surely, winning can't be that big a surprise for her, right?
Turns out, she really was surprised by her win. When 8days.sg spoke to the host a day after the show — she was so busy she could only call us at midnight — she said that she felt her two noms in the category meant that the judges could have split their votes and the fact that she had already won in the category for the past three Star Awards.
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She also apologised to her daughter Eleanor Lee for not spending more time with her while she was growing up.
21 APR 2021 11:30
![qyf 1 qyf 1](https://www.8days.sg/image/14658876/16x9/1100/619/84a82e510ce6b4b288cde97f774b61ec/YM/qyf-1.jpg)
When Quan Yifeng was named Best Host at the last Sunday's Star Awards, the 47-year-old surprised everyone when she burst into tears during her speech.
Now, getting so emotional would have been normal for people who don't get to go on stage often, but for Yifeng, who is no stranger to winning awards (she's dominated the category since 2017, hello?), it was just... strange.
Surely, winning can't be that big a surprise for her, right?
Turns out, she really was surprised by her win. When 8days.sg spoke to the host a day after the show — she was so busy she could only call us at midnight — she said that she felt her two noms in the category meant that the judges could have split their votes and the fact that she had already won in the category for the past three Star Awards.
All photos cannot be reproduced without permission from 8days.sg.
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Getting all teary-eyed during the show
She said the tears flowed partially because her mind was scrambling to think of the right words to say, and the sudden rush of adrenaline just got a bit too much for her.
“You'd think that I was the most emotional when I was giving my speech, but you didn’t see what happened after the cameras stopped rolling and we headed into a commercial break,” she added. “My legs turned to jelly and I had to squat down to compose myself. I kept asking [my Star Awards co-host] Guo Liang if I had misspoke during the speech, and it was only at his assurance that I did a good job did I finally calm down.”
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She's a winner
After the awards show, Yifeng posted a series of heartfelt messages on her IG, one of which read, "To my family, forgive me for not spending more time with you. To my daughter, forgive me for not being by your side when you were growing up. To [Mediacorp], thank you for never giving up on me. To the viewers, thank you for giving me a chance to be a good person. To my work, I don’t strive to be perfect but all I want is to have a clear conscience."
Yifeng continued, "Maybe the heavens forgot to give me a blissful marriage, but happiness will still find you in other ways. The biggest blessing of my life is having all of you by my side."
Yifeng was married to actor Peter Yu from 1998 to 2009, and has said in previous interviews that she's destined to be single forever as she's a "torture" to be with.
All eyes are now on Yifeng to see if she would extend her lead as the artiste with the most Best Host wins to her name — she has six compared to her closest competitors, Mark Lee, Sharon Au and Kym Ng, who each have four.
However, Yifeng thinks that there’s “absolutely no way” she’s going to win again next year.
“After the awards ended, some people asked me about next year’s awards and I’ve told them that they don’t have to worry about me. I’m not going to win anyway!” she chuckled.
But what about the second season of Hear U Out, which has just started shooting?
“I take on every job as long as it fits my schedule. I don’t think it’s right to say no to a show because you think it’s not up to whatever standards one has of an ‘award-winning show’," she shrugged.
"It’s up to the host to do a good job on the show, and not the job of the show to turn you into a good host.”