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| Just Jada
Jada Cheng
Location: Flushing Age: 20 Height: 5’ 4" Weight: 100 lbs Stats: 32-24-35 Jada Cheng only started modeling a year and a half ago, but what she lacks in experience, she makes up for with her willingness to travel. Auto shows across the nation have been the backdrop for Jada’s modeling moves, but she’s also plied a different trade in China. Jada got her start modeling at automotive expos, when a friend told her to quit her job recruiting models, and get in the game herself. “My friend just said ‘You have the look, why not just try out for it.’” The car shows are a great starting point for any burgeoning model, Jada said, because of the huge number of other models and photographers that attend. “A lot of people network, you get tons of business cards,” she said. “I gave [photographers] my e-mail and they contacted me to do photos.” From there, Jada said, her career blossomed into a full-time gig, as she travels the full range of the East Coast, from Delaware to Miami, and also models at car shows as far away as San Francisco. “It’s almost every weekend,” Jada said. “I still enjoy it but it gets kind of annoying, you always have to pack up and leave and it’s a lot of traveling.” The 20-year-old Corona native, who now lives in Flushing, said that even after spending time in Hong Kong and mainland China, she considers Queens her home. During her time abroad, Jada taught English in Chinese schools, an experience that she still cherishes. “I spent two and a half years there, teaching English to children, middle school kids, high school kids. It was pretty different there.” “They have everything you’d ever want, they make everything there. The food is great; I tried some crazy stuff. I tried donkey meat which is crazy, still pretty good.” For all her travels, Jada classifies herself as a bit of a homebody who likes to spend time with family and friends, and ultimately concentrate on her education. “I still love modeling, but I want to go back to school,” she said. “Next semester I’m going to balance everything out with modeling and school, cause I want to finish school.” |
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| Ugly Betty, Ugly Speech
America Ferrera, star of the relatively new television series “Ugly Betty,” won the award for best actress in a television drama at the Golden Globes. Her extremely emotional acceptance speech and list of at least 50 people to thank, sadly, did not include Queens, the borough from which her character, Betty Suarez, hails.
The show, produced by Mexican actress Salma Hayek, highlights the Latino community and gives Latin-Americans a voice. For the creators of the show to use the Queens’ Latino community is indicative of how large and influential that community has become here. Ferrera spent time gushing tears all over her award but didn’t thank the borough that made it all happen. Maybe she’ll get it right if there is a next time. |
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| Presidential Pardon
What better excuse note than from the President of the United States? When the Borja family of Bayside finally sat down with President Bush last week to discuss funding for Ground Zero workers who fell ill after toiling at the site, it was a school day for 12-year-old Nhia Borja who attends MS 25 in Queens.
Not to worry, though, because, according to news reports, the President took out his pen and scribbled Nhia a note that read: “Please excuse Nhia for missing school yesterday,” and signed his name. The bittersweet moment was the result of a her older brother’s request to meet with the head honcho after their father, a former NYPD cop who worked long hours at Ground Zero, succumbed to a lung disease believed to be caused by the site. |
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| Singing Model
Former Trib "Model of Queens" Tomoko Fukida has pursued her singing. After appearing on our QConf page (right), the Asian songbird has been entertaining all over town. At Aruba (left), 40th St. between Park & Lex, (212-661-6795) a new cozy Japanese style bar and lounge, Tomoko has become a regular. She appears again Friday night Feb 16 -- $15 music charge. Tell her the Trib sent you.
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| Warped Speed Ahead
Fran Capo, the Howard Beach native who holds the Guinness record as World’s Fastest Talking Female, has jumped to the speed of light, with her emergence into the growing market of internet-based television shows.
She will join the cast of “John Basedow TV,” a reality show loosely based on the life of fitness guru John Basedow, and she will portray “Fast Talking Fran – Adventure Girl,” her real-life adventurous persona. “If the likes of Roseanne Barr, J-Lo and Comedy Central are talking of introducing shows along these lines…you know we are on the cutting edge. . . I put a funny fast talking video on Jib Jab. It received over 12,000 hits in 24 hours and it moved to No. 1.” “I’m so excited to be a part of this show… that I’m almost speechless. So far I’ve fast-talked John into hanging with penguins, exercising with seals and now I’m working on getting him to eat fire!” We might tune in for that. |
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