The votes are in and counted and over in Hong Kong, TVB Weekly has held its star-studded bash to hand out their gold and acrylic souvenir pieces that represent the Hong Kong Public's vote for the 2005 TVB Weekly Popularity Awards.

Meanwhile, in this quieter corner of cyberspace, TVBspace is proud to present the results of our own vote to represent the views of the overseas TVB fan community. Thanks to everyone who voted and showed your support for our favourite stars. I'm sure there will be much analysis and discussion about these results, but overall I think there will be more of a consensus over the very unanimous result.

The Most Popular of them All Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - SHEREN TANG

Sheren Tang - 21.5%     Ada Choi - 13.2%     Charmaine Sheh - 13.2%

TVB Weekly Winner - Gigi Lai

Most Popular Male Artiste Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - ROGER KWOK

Roger Kwok - 34.3%     Moses Chan - 15.3%     Bobby Au Yeung - 13.6%

TVB Weekly Winner - Bowie Lam


Most Popular Female Artiste Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - JESSICA HSUAN

Jessica Hsuan - 35.1%     Charmaine Sheh - 16.5%     Kenix Kwok - 10.3%

TVB Weekly Winner - Gigi Lai



Most Popular Male Idol Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - RAYMOND LAM

Raymond Lam - 33.5%     Julian Cheung - 21.1%     Ron Ng - 17.4%

TVB Weekly Winner - Ron Ng

Most Popular Female Idol Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - TAVIA YEUNG

Tavia Yeung - 21.5%     Michelle Ye - 20.2%     Myolie Wu - 20.2%

TVB Weekly Winner - Myolie Wu

Most Popular Male Host Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - ERIC TSANG

Eric Tsang - 41.3%     Hacken Lee - 31.8%     Joey Leung - 7.4%

TVB Weekly Winner - Eric Tsang

Most Popular Female Host Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - CAROL CHENG

Carol Cheng - 37.2%     Lydia Shum - 14.5%     Nancy Sit - 13.6%

TVB Weekly Winner - Carol Cheng



Most Popular Male Ancient Character Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - RAYMOND LAM

Raymond Lam - 37.6%     Bosco Wong - 20.2%      Dicky Cheung - 15.3%

TVB Weekly Winner - Ron Ng

Most Popular Female Ancient Character Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - TAVIA YEUNG

Tavia Yeung - 19.8%      Michelle Ye - 16.5%     Sheren Tang - 16.1%

TVB Weekly Winner - Gigi Lai

Most Popular Personality Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - BOBBY AU YEUNG

Bobby Au Yeung - 24.4%     Bosco Wong - 20.2%     Dicky Cheung - 15.3%

TVB Weekly Winner - Dayo Wong

Most Popular Action Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - RAYMOND LAM

Raymond Lam - 23.1%     Julian Cheung - 16.5%     Wong He - 15.3

TVB Weekly Winner - Yuen Wah


Most Popular Comedy Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - DAYO WONG

Dayo Wong - 29.8%     Ada Choi - 18.2%     Kingdom Yuen - 12.0%

TVB Weekly Winner - Dayo Wong

Most Popular Childrens Host Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - TAM YUK YING

Tam Yuk Ying - 21.1%     MARTIN LAU - 11.2%     CHAN PUI SZE - 9.5%

TVB Weekly Winner - Tam Yuk Ying

Most Popular Male Trendiness Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - LAI LOK YI

Lai Lok Yi - 14.5%     Jack Wu - 11.2%      Patrick Tang - 11.2%

TVB Weekly Winner - Charles Szeto

Most Popular Female Trendiness Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - GILLIAN CHUNG

Gillian Chung - 18.6%     Joey Yung - 17.8%     Charlene Choi - 13.2%

TVB Weekly Winner - Joey Yung

Most Popular Show Award

TVBspace Vote Winner - WAR AND BEAUTY

War and Beauty - 19.8%     The Last Breakthrough - 10.3%     Lady Fan - 9.5%

TVBSPACE POPULARITY AWARDS - COMMENT
I found the results very interesting, with the only agreement between the Hong Kong and Overseas viewers coming in with the Most Popular Hosts, Comedy and Children's host awards. This only goes to prove the universal appeal of stars such as Eric, Carol, Dayo and the lovable Tam Yuk Ying, all of whom have played a valuable part in our TVB upbringing. Gigi's sweep of four of the TVB Weekly awards was not reflected in the TVBspace community at all, where it appears that the 'Square Pegs' perfect partnership of Roger and Jessica hold most favour and justice for Sheren has been served as her amazing performance in 'War and Beauty' has earned her the respect of the overseas fans if not of the readers in Hong Kong. The other big upset in the TVBspace vote was the overwhelming difference in opinion about the leader of the young male stars pack, with Raymond Lam gaining the top spot in three categories, despite not winning anything at the TVB Weekly event. HK big winner Ron Ng had to settle behind Julian Cheung and even Bosco Wong in the worldwide rankings this time.

The closest fought category in the TVBspace vote was for the Most Popular Female Idol, with just over 1% between the top three ladies, but Tavia Yeung just clawed in enough votes to win this award from the Hong Kong choice Myolie. Among the more unusual votes was a couple of votes for Amigo Chui in the Female Trendiness category, interesting observation there!

Votes came in from readers spanning far and wide, a third of which hailed from America and others from South-East Asia, across Europe, Canada and Australasia.

As for the lucky draw from the votes received, the three voters listed have been picked out at random and will be receiving some TVB stuff in the post soon!

Joyce Luunguyen, USA
Cathy, USA
Alvin Yong, Malaysia