Background
Her mother wanted to compete at Mission Hong Kong but due to her father"s marriage, she gave up. Ip grew up in Hong Kong and studied at King Edward"s School, Witley for a few years.
叶翠翠, 葉翠翠
Her mother wanted to compete at Mission Hong Kong but due to her father"s marriage, she gave up. Ip grew up in Hong Kong and studied at King Edward"s School, Witley for a few years.
In the early 2000s, she returned to Hong Kong and entered the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, majoring in fashion design. She was also a part-time model with the Elite Modeling Agency, modeling in some shows and commercials. In 2005 she competed in the 2005 Mission Hong Kong competition.
Ip was trained with 19 other delegates for 3 months.
She visited the Tsunami affected areas like Sri Lanka and Thailand during her training. Even though she had negative news regarding surgery on her nose, she had a flawless performance and took the crown.
She also received the title of Mission Charity. After that, she hosted some shows and performed in lots of charity shows in Hong Kong.
She started out well for having some common "features" of former Mission World semifinalists from Hong Kong (like Maggie Cheung of 1983 and Pauline Yeung of 1987, all had lived/studied in England).
She placed 7th in the Asia Pacific team and was close to winning the fast track event, Beauty With A Purpose. Ip also made the top 19 of the Beach Beauty Contest, which stunned many pageant fans. Ip also sold 35,000 RMB for her globe that was donated and auctioned at a charity dinner.
lieutenant was the item that raised the most amount of money that night.
She returned to Hong Kong on 10 December. On 28 December 2005, Ip attended a press conference for the pageant.
Being a favorite from the start, Ip was expected to place in the top 3, and might even bag the crown. Surprisingly, Ip was shut out of the top 5 of the pageant.
She only received a side award as a consolation.
Ip afterwards hosted TVB shows like EBuzz. She also signed a contract with TVB to start in some dramas.