Flame Awards
TURN-OFF of the Year
S FACTOR ‘BABES’
By Juliana June Rasul
December 27, 2009
TRY as we did, Gurmit Singh lost out on the Turn-Off (dis)honour again this year.
BIKINI TIME: Kay Kay and Sonia.
Oh, but how we wished he’d won.
Not only has the poor guy been nominated in this category three times now, there’s this little business of the S Factor girls not wanting to accept our award.
(We’re mailing it to Gillian Tan, the producer of the show, if you must know.)
Yan Kay Kay and the S Factor girls should be honoured really.
They received more than 3,000 votes from our readers, which is one of the highest number in any single category in the Flame Awards’ 15-year history.
They left Singapore Idol host Gurmit and judge Ken Lim eating their dust, who snagged 356 and 51 votes respectively.
Perhaps you guys voted so earnestly to see new bikini shots of the girls.
But alas, the girls were unwilling.
Why like that?
Come on, S Factor – the local reality series which featured bimbo moments aplenty – was a bona fide hit.
Sure, it fell into the ‘it’s so bad it’s good’ category, but any publicity is better than none, right?
Just ask the poor actors toiling on Channel 5 dramas. Nary a peep from the press, or complaints from viewers.
S Factor’s Ms Tan told us via e-mail she had ‘no real thoughts’ about her leading ladies’ latest ‘accolade’, but was enthusiastic over the prospect of a second season.
While some of the girls we tried contacting declined politely to accept the award, S Factor winner Kay Kay was not so, er, graceful.
Indeed, it shows she really deserves every single one of those thousands of votes – and the eventual title of Turn-Off – that came her way.
Though she’s told The New Paper before that it’s ‘better to have criticism than fade into oblivion’, the 27-year-old seemed to be enraged by our nomination piece last Wednesday – in which we didn’t even mention her own exploits on the show.
When we told her via SMS that the S Factor girls had won (because she refused to answer our calls), she took to her Twitter account to tell her 7,000 followers how horrible The New Paper has been to her.
She went on a 15-tweet rage, when really, all she could have said was ‘No thanks’.
Where was the girl, who, just months ago, told us she looked up to Paris Hilton, and was looking for infamy?
Better hate than indifference
Who also said: ‘It’s better that they either love me or hate me than be indifferent.’
Instead, she was tweeting: ‘TNP majorly upset my parents TWICE w diff (with different) reports on me. They were sad/disappointed/angry cos the reports put me in bad light.’
Well, we didn’t make up those quotes, or all the stuff that she’s done (the girl-on-girl kissing and breast augmentation), and we’re not apologising.
Kay Kay’s friend, local blogger Xiaxue, ended up tweeting back to her, telling her to just talk to us for the ‘free publicity’.
‘It’s ok lah, I was also turn off of the year (nominee) 2 years ago!’ was Xiaxue’s next tweet.
See – no big deal. Live in the public eye, deal with a few jokes from The New Paper.
Kay Kay’s reply?
‘I’d rather eat 10 living hissing flying cockroaches thankyouverymuch.’
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, too.
The NewPaper