Pamela Peck
| Pamela Peck 白韻琹 | |
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 Pamela Peck running 2012 Legco election | |
| Born |
白韻琹 1 September 1944 |
| Alma mater |
St. Paul's Secondary School San Francisco State University |
| Known for | Candidate in Hong Kong by-election, 2010 (Kowloon West) |
| Criminal charge | Tax fraud |
| Criminal penalty | 3 months in prison |
| Criminal status | released |
| Spouse(s) | Paul Tse |
| Relatives |
Bai Chongxi (uncle) Pai Hsien-yung (cousin) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 白韻琹 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 白韵琴 | ||||||||||
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Pamela Peck Wan-kam (Chinese: 白韻琴, born on September 1 1944) was a Hong Kong radio agony aunt and celebrity and is a former member of Wan Chai District Council. Since 1989 she has been the partner of 'celebrity' lawyer and legislator Paul Tse.
Early life
Peck came to Hong Kong from China when she was three months old. Her dad died and her mother could not support her, so she went to live with her mother's sister, accompanied by her wet nurse.[1]
She says that her uncle was 'dissolute' and would often bring girlfriends home. But her aunt befriended them so that they left.
Peck was seen by social welfare officers. At around age 15, she ran away with a boyfriend, missing her HKCEE exams.
Career
She became a flight attendant and hosted radio programmes when not flying. Three years later she went back to school, and later studied TV broadcasting at the graduate school of San Francisco State University.
The public named her as 白小姐 or 白姐姐 during the launch of her phone-in radio talk show 'Heart To Heart' (盡訴心中情) in 1986. She was known as the 'Queen of Late Night Radio' for her on-air relationship advice.
(Later), on her radio show Talk of the Town people discussed their love lives openly on air, to which she gave typically pithy but practical advice.
Apart from her famous radio talk show, Pamela is also a famous author; she writes columns periodically in various Hong Kong magazines and newspapers where the articles were later grouped together and published as books.
Conviction and imprisonment for tax evasion
On 19 April 2001, Peck was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to three months in prison. She had forged meal receipts and employee salary records to evade $210,000 in profits tax.
She had pleaded guilty to four counts of assisting Platinum Promotion Ltd with intent to evade tax between 1994 and 1998 – effectively four taxation years – by signing fraudulent returns. She held 99.9 per cent of the shares in the company.
Peck served her sentence, at Tai Lam Centre for Women, a prison. While serving her sentence, she was not allowed to contribute to any of the various publications for which she wrote columns.[2][3]
Since the mid-1990s she has been the partner of 'celebrity' lawyer and legislator Paul Tse. Tse is also her legal representative.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Princess Cheung Ping 武俠帝女花 | Empress Dowager Hau-chong |
| 1981 | Angel in Crisis 天使危機 | Hui Wai-fun |
| 1984 | Empress Wu 武則天 | Empress Cheung-suen |
| 1991 | Days of Glory 豪門 | Chan Yut-ha |
| 2010 | Perfect Wedding 抱抱俏佳人 | TV host |
References
- ↑ pamela pak wan kam. HK Magazine
- ↑ Agony is, losing out on property market (Archive). The Standard 16 Dec 2008
- ↑ Pamela Pak starts prison term. Fortune City, August 2001
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Michael Mak |
Member of Wan Chai District Council Representative for Broadwood 2012–2015 |
Succeeded by Paul Tse |