To Grow With Love---TVB (HK's Bridget Jones version)

To Grow With Love---TVB 2006 Andy Hui and Myolie Wu

Title: 肥田囍事; Cantonese/Mandarin title: Fei Tin Hei Si / Fei Tian Xi Shi

I did start out watching a HK version of Bridget Jones--"To Grow with Love" TVB's 39th anniversary show. It has been EONS since I watched a TVB Drama! But she is more nicer, sweeter and wanting to avoid her meddling father to be married off. The lead actress Myolie Wu was second runner up in Miss Hong Kong Beauty Pageant in 1999. The gained a reported 50 pounds and after the drama lost it being the spokesperson for a weight loss product. (Something similiar to "Trim Spa" with Anna Nicole and Kristie Alley with "Jenny Craig"). While the Korean version with Kim Sun Ah a model/actress only gained 20 pounds for "My Lovely Kim Sam Soon" in the 2005 top Kdrama of that year.

I am more in tune with Japanese and Korean actors and actresses than in HK. I used to know them growing up catching the dramas with the "5 Fu" Felix, Andy, Tony, Michael (Mui Kui Wai ), and Hong Jun Yip (Barbara Yung's boyfriend).

So I read that Myolie gained 50 pounds for this role as Tina. Since the drama ended she has successfully lost the weight. I hope she did it in a healthiful way. She brought a cute energy to her role. I liked her alot. It was my first time seeing Andy as an actor. I remember him from his singing in the 1990s (I am also behind on songs in HK and TW too now) where I thought his singing save for a few songs were ok. Give me Leslie, Anita and Jacky anytime to be truthful on my fave singers! Andy did a good job. Overall I thought the drama flew by and I finished it quickly and there were only 21 episodes. Of course some of the story lines seemed a bit far fetched but cute enough. New comer Matthew Ko as Matthew was cute but not the best actor. Did not have many expressions in his range of acting. It was cool to see some of the TVB regulars whom I saw growing up such as Tina's dad or Fei Jai Hei's dad.

Plus I have to admit each episode is much shorter than Korean dramas so I whizzed through them too. Yeah!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Grow_With_Love (source)

To Grow with Love (Traditional Chinese: 肥田囍事) is an episodic drama produced by Hong Kong television station, TVB. It premiered on October 23, 2006. It is the Anniversary Drama for TVB, shown to celebrate its 39th anniversary.
Cantonese/Mandarin title: Fei Tin Hei Si / Fei Tian Xi Shi
CAST
Myolie Wu 胡杏兒 as Tina Ho 何美田 (AKA: 肥田)
Andy Hui 許志安 as Daniel Dai 戴喜
Claire Yiu 姚嘉妮 as Rachel Sung 宋曼頤
Selena Li 李詩韻 as Kwok Bo Lok 郭寶樂
Jack Wu 胡諾言 as 林冠希
Gigi Wong 黃淑儀 as 楊秀蘭
Eddie Kwan 關禮傑 as 蔣一鳴
Natalie Wong 黃紀瑩 as Carmen Lau 劉嘉敏
Chi Kwong Chiang 蔣志光 as Albert Dai 戴富
Matthew Ko 高鈞賢 as Matthew Chiang 蔣文俊

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Tina Ho is an overweight woman who is determined to find the person who is right for her. Her father is always finding men from all over the place and trying to get her married. Tina wants to find someone who thinks the same way she does and whom she can communicate with. She flees to Hong Kong to get away from her frustrating father. There, she meets up with her cousin, Kwok Bo Lok. Lok is a player when is comes to relationships. She is very pretty and has many boyfriends. She says she wants to marry by the age of 25 and the man she is to marry has to be rich.

Tina meets a fashion designer named Daniel. She gives him a nickname as "Dai Sei Hei". She works for his company D-Day but her designs are horrible. At first Daniel hates Tina, but he learns to accept her a little bit after seeing how much she has to struggle in Hong Kong. She has helped him quite a bit also. So Daniel is really nice to her, because he feels guilty about wanting to fire her. However, when Tina uses him to trick her father, he gets very angry. Tina claims Daniel as her boyfriend so she wouldn't have to marry. Daniel's girlfriend, Rachel, finds out and takes it the wrong way. However, Daniel fires Tina and insults her harshly, then tells Rachel that he has nothing to do with her. Tina is very upset and goes back home in The Philippines.
When Rachel goes to Philippines for a business trip. Daniel wants to give her a surprise and goes to visit her. He goes to a jewelry shop to buy a Rachel a present when he meets Tina's finacé. While talking, they both get hit by a car. Tina's fiancé falls into a coma, while Daniel loses his memory. Tina decides to use this to her advantage and get revenge on Daniel for all the awful things he has done to her. First, she decides to fatten him up (because she knows how much he hates fat people), and then makes him fall in love with her. She plan break up with him and break his heart. However, Tina found herself falling for him too!

Tina ends up deciding to give him back to Rachel explaining what happened. But Daniel regained his memory by himself and when he found Rachel, Tina was insulted yet once again and was left heartbroken. Daniel, who was on the plane back to Hong Kong with Rachel, suddenly remembers all the things that Tina did with him and the time they spent together. But will he go back to her? Or stay with Rachel?