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Angelina Jolie, David Yip, Darren Day - yes, they all want a piece of Chinese Elvis. But which piece? .

CHINESEELVIS is the Elvis of choice for JXL, who chose him to front the video of his hit re-mix "A Little Less Conversation". Watch here.

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Not on this page, I am afraid, Mr. Bush, but it was worth checking - just in case. Well done. I only mention them to be honest, to increase my web-hits from the CIA. Oh, and Osama Bin Laden, as well. Not to mention Paris Hilton...

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Updated 11 May 2008

ChineseElvis has appeared and sung live on a multitude of television and radio shows including BBC Breakfast News, BBC World News, CNN, BBC News 24, GMTV, Sky News, Canal Plus, BBC2's Heaven & Earth, Central TV, RAJ TV, London Tonight, BBC London Live, Radio 5 Live - Matthew Bannister show; Julian Worricker Show; Anita Anand show, Radio 4's The Message with Jeni Murray, BBC World Service, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Coventry, BBC West Midlands, BBC Oxford, TalkSport, Heart FM, LBC, XFM, some Polish radio station, as well as featuring in The Independent, The Guardian, the Daily Express, Daily Mail (voted among top three best Elvises in UK), Daily Star, Daily Mirror, Mail on Sunday, The Sun, BBC Online, What's On In London, Eastern Eye, The London Evening Standard, London Metro, Birmingham Metro(and many more). Not to mention the Harrogate Advertiser.... Have you not had enough, already...? If not, perhaps I can interest you in a ChineseElvis dog T-Shirt? Thangyuveramuch.

ChineseElvis recently won the prestigious "Funniest in the Parade" award at the Shoreditch Carnival. The funniest thing about this award is that I was not informed about it and therefore missed the ceremony. It is a strangely uncompetitive award, given that the paraders directly behind me were "Families in Crisis" - I don't think they were really in the running, to be fair - even though they were hilarious..! But an award is an award - and the cabinet extension has already been commissioned. I believe "Homeless in Hackney" were a close 2nd... On the flip side of this success, CHINESEELVIS - or to be more accurate, his alter ego, Paul Hyu - was recently a finalist for a Chinese achievement award, a so-called Pearl Award. The category was "Media Excellence". Sadly, in spite of his media ubiquity and recent upgrade in status to Local Hero of London, ChineseElvis lost out to a newsletter, called "Dragon's Tale". He tried to look them up on Google to no avail. To reiterate what Jackie Chan said in his pre-recorded speech, "Congratulations to all concerned" - Or as world renowned celebrity chef and kitchen utensil salesman Ken Hom said, "I can't believe its Media Excellence"!

ChineseElvis appeared recently in an Elvis-only THE WEAKEST LINK special with eight other top (including some international) Elvii. A charity special, ChineseElvis was the strongest link (ie I WAS THE WINNER!!) and won £5,900 for the NSPCC and his Chinese friends at the Islington Chinese Association. This epic piece of light entertainment was aired on September 15th at 6:30pm on BBC1. Although I am aware that Elvis impersonators are educationally challenged as a rule, it was worth risking the humiliation of the 'walk of shame' for the chance to raise the number of appearances of a Chinese face on prime-time BBC television. They are now proudly up to 1 for the year. Well done! Watch edited highlights of this show on the left (or on my media page).

CHINESEELVIS was recently on C5 advocating for Elvis on the C5 show BATTLE OF THE POPSTARS-LIVE! This interactive show was strangely watchable (due to the fact that there was nothing else on any of the other channels) and Elvis actually won it, meaning that ChineseElvis was making salient points regularly through the 2 1/2 hrs. If you would like to download a 3 minute edited version of the programme, concentrating mainly on ChineseElvis' thoughts, please click here. Or watch it online in very bad quality here.

ChineseElvis features in a ROAD SAFETY INFOMERCIAL- its being shown totally randomly, mainly on community tv channels, apparently (what the hell are they?). In the interests of promoting road safety, you can watch it on this site by going to my download area.

As an actor, Paul can soon be seen in the following upcoming tv show: THE MARCHIONESS DISASTER - an ITV dramatisation of the 1989 Thames river tragedy. Paul also can be found in the BBC's 2006 BAFTA nominated drama series FUNLAND, which has been recently released on DVD and can be bought from Amazon, by clicking on the advert on the right. He has recently filmed his 2nd stint on ITV's The Bill as well as BBC's EastEnders and can currently be found in various radio plays on The World Service and Radio 4. Paul recently made a short appearance on RATHER YOU THAN ME - the Frankie Howerd story, again for BBC television. In the theatre, Paul recently starred at Birmingham Rep with Maureen Lipman in a play that toured the regions, but sadly never made it to the West End - for reasons best known to the producers. He is to appear in a show at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival.

CHINESEELVIS features in The Elvis Impersonation Kit: A Step by Step Guide to becoming The King. You too can learn the secrets of ChineseElvis and become close to The King yourself....

Yes, its true! In no small part down to the popularity of the AOL adverts, which saw ChineseElvis not only gracing the tele-box but also the newspapers, the London tube and enormous billboards up and down the country over the holiday period, ChineseElvis has started his international career in classy style. While in no way disparaging the great nations of Wales and Scotland, where ChineseElvis has found himself on several occasions, ChineseElvis's attempts at world domination took a serious step forward when he found himself on a plane to Barbados, where he would soon be entertaining the privileged masses on a party boat. The Harbour Master set sail on 20 December, complete with band and slightly bewildered (and somewhat jet-lagged) ChineseElvis, anchored off the west coast of the island, from which vantage point one could see the guests' hotels where room rates start from as little as $US 10,000 per night, and the party commenced. As caviar and lobster were consumed in great quantities, ChineseElvis did his duty, looking forward to the enormous paycheck that was about to land on his doormat! Its good to be the King from Beijing. He will return to the island soon.

Live somewhere nice? Have loadsamoney? Then have you considered paying through the nose to have me come and perform at your event? ChineseElvis has travelled to beautiful Waterford, Ireland to perform for the charming staff of AOL (UK) and has recently had his passport stamped in Atlanta, Georgia for some lovely Coca-Cola employees. It worked for them. It can work for you. Especially if you live in Hawaii or similar. Send me an email and lets talk.

Oriental City, a shopping mall / emporium type place in Colindale (yes, Colindale in NW9), is less of a city than a hamlet, really. And Colindale is not exactly the Orient in my book - but to their credit they know how to celebrate Chinese New Year and put on a great spectacle of entertainment over the period, including Chinese singing, lion dancing, martial arts, rolling rugs (..huh?) rolling lamps (...wtf?) and an intriguing-sounding "changing face" thing. But the main event was, of course, yours truly. It was all a bit unusual - a stage in the middle of the mall and at least 500 people, some of whom were sporting Elvis clothes/wigs and were patiently waiting for hours before I came on. I dont know what they expected and they seemed very polite and nice, which was a pity given my shameless groin-thrusting ...! Now I hear that they are demolishing the place! Its a bit extreme, isn't it?

This portrait of CHINESEELVIS was taken by the eminent photographer for inclusion in some book or other. Its not bad, issit? Bailey, as he asked me to call him, signed it as well, making it a very valuable piece. I quite like it, because it reminds me of my virile good old days, when I sported longer hair. My enormous package has been airbrushed out, making this photo an ideal gift for ladies and youngsters alike...

Switching corporate allegiance faster than Kate Moss after allegedly filling her nose with copious amounts of the good stuff, ChineseElvis thoroughly whammed, bammed and thank-you, Ma'amed the good people of AOL and swiftly got himself a new shirt sponsor in the form of Sharwoods. The Event was called 'Sharwoods Wok The City' and the main feature was a free Noodle Box giveaway. ChineseElvis was to be found at these venues, entertaining the crowds, fending off homeless people and trying to prevent his ample package shrinking to a size of a magic mushroom (at least thats what I told the police, as they were cautioning me). It seemed to work in the main and I believe Sharwoods were happy. However, unless there is a Winnebago packed to the rafters with heaters, dvds, fruit, blue smarties etc.. for my exclusive use, complete with security guard and a Thai ladyboy masseuse with firm yet supple wrists, then I will never do anything like that again. Open-Air street gigs in the UK in January, although very popular with the homeless, are no place for a West Indian, warm-blooded ChineseElvis...!

ChineseElvis was the star- looking quite fat (though this is of course Jim-Henson muppet workshop-style padding around my amazingly smooth and toned swimmer's body to help get in character. Dont forget, the camera adds ten pounds (and that was just to my package)) - in an extensive and expensive nation-wide advertising campaign across the UK recently. The campaign for AOL Broadband consisted of a series of TV commercials and posters, like that below, which appeared on billboards, the tube, internet pop-ups and newspapers. You can see the television ad if you click here.

The BBC1 show THE WORLD's GREATEST ELVIS, was aired in Sept. They asked me to be in it, but being very busy and sexy (coupled with their reluctance to pay a fee) I gracefully declined the opportunity to appear, secure in the knowledge that I am the world's greatest ChineseElvis, which is good enough for anyone - and may I say a better singer than a large number of the contestants on that show. As a man of immpeccible taste I was not surprised, like this reviewer, to find the whole show poor, to be fair. This reviewer also seemed to find it woeful. As did this one. In fact I would be surprised to find anyone praising it. But it was glitzy. Which is something. There were some unintentionally hilarious moments, though - including a geriatric geezer claiming he did the best Elvis show in the world ...and a Japanese Elvis, who sang the songs in a Japanese accent! Incidentally - I can't believe Vernon Kay is as popular as they say he is. Anyone know why? Maybe old Vern' is a brilliantly post-modern genius, whose razor sharp wit goes over my head - but I am ashamed to say I just see a gormless idiot with perfect cheekbones and lovely hair ... Would somebody please enlighten me as to his appeal? At the very least, the show demonstrated the ability of the BBC to pay for Vern (and his wife, evidently) to fly all over the world and have a jolly at license-payers' expense. Maybe that explains why the BBC are sacking over 2,000 employees...?

CHINESEELVIS was invited to perform as part of the grand launch of the new and spectacularly refurbished casino, The Casino at the Empire in Leicester Square in June 2007. Its very big and they have slot machines where the minimum spend is 1p. Yes, that's £0.01. Computerised. Very popular. Also you can do other stuff there, like poker and punto banco. They have restaurants, a VIP bar, which I was shown around, which has a balcony that overlooks the square and a dance area called the "Shadow Bar", where naked women writhe around like in the opening titles of James Bond films, projecting a sexy shadow on a screen. That was closed on the day I was there. Its quite an improvement on the hideous nightclub that was there before.

ChineseElvis appeared in Harrogate to entertain the masses for a special fund-raiser to help save the Royal Hall. Its a special place for the King from Beijing, as it is the venue where he picked up his first award; his school's German prize in 1984! He is of course nowadays laden with trophies, but in the bleak, grim Yorkshire dales during the miner's strike this small victory was celebrated in true eeeh- bah-gumm style by ChineseElvis and his pack of Presleytarians by smoking a quick pack of John Player Special behind the bike shed and downing a bottle of Woodpecker cider. Them wor the days.

And lastly... ChineseElvis recently compered a new variety/burlesque show, OUT OF VAUDEVILLE in Leicester Square.

I support this charity and I think you should too. Elvis would have approved. It is too weird that here in the UK we have a royal society representing animals and a national society for children. I think we should have a national society for the preservation of royalty run by animals and children. In any event, if you are asking yourself the question, "If ChineseElvis can donate his hugely valuable time and services to this charity, how can I possibly emulate that? ", I have taken the trouble to make it easy for you. Just click on the advert below and donate away. It won't make you sexy, like me. But it might make you feel good, which is the first step to being sexy. Like me.

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