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Chinese actress suffers embarrassing fall at Venice Film Fest red carpet
The attention of the world are trained on celebrities whenever they attend a red carpet event, dressed to the nines and looking their elegant best.
But one Chinese actress probably wishes there were fewer eyes on her at a recent premiere, where she tripped over her own gown and fell to her knees in full public view.
The actress, who has been identified by Chinese media outlets as Liang Jingke, was attending the premiere of the film “The Light Between Oceans” on Thursday (Sep 1).
Wearing a strapless emerald gown and black peep-toe stilettos, she had her heel caught in the gown’s long train, causing her to trip and fall, Mail Online reported.
Thankfully, two male companions were able to grab a hold of her before things got worse, and helped her up to her feet.
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But it was too late for her clutch bag, the contents of which spilled out onto the carpet, and photographers and journalists around her clicked away on their cameras.
The star looked aghast before eventually laughing off the fall gracefully. She then quickly regained her elegant demeanour and smiled for the cameras.
In its article, Mail Online had initially identified the woman as South Korean actress Moon So-ri, who is a member of the jury at the festival. However, Korean publication Korea Times pointed out that Moon had walked the red carpet in a simple black dress.
Liang is far from the first star to suffer a slip while gracing the red carpet.
Last year, Chinese actress Fan Bingbing lost her balance while going down the stairs at a red carpet event, but was prevented from falling by her boyfriend, actor Li Chen.
More famously, Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence took a plunge at the 2013 Academy Awards as she made her way onto the stage to accept the Best Actress award.
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Japan typhoon death toll rises to 14
The death toll from a devastating typhoon in northern Japan rose to 14, officials said Friday, as another powerful storm approached the country’s south.
Two bodies were found separately near rivers on the island of Hokkaido, a police spokesman told AFP.
On Thursday evening, police also found a body near a flooded river in the hard hit town of Iwaizumi in the northern part of Honshu island, public broadcaster NHK said.
Typhoon Lionrock, which packed wind gusts of over 160 kilometres (100 miles) an hour landed on Japan’s northern Pacific coast on Tuesday evening, dumping torrential rain over a wide area.
Overflowing rivers wreaked havoc, stranding many communities in the country’s largely agricultural north.
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Iwaizumi was the hardest hit, with 12 people dying in the town, including nine who were buried inside a building of an elderly care facility.
As of Friday morning, more than 1,000 people were still cut off in isolated communities in Iwate prefecture, which includes Iwaizumi, the prefectural government said.
Lionrock was the third typhon to strike Japan’s northeast in about 10 days, the previous two causing at least two deaths.
Japan faced another strong typhoon, Namtheun, which was heading north toward the southern main island of Kyushu with gusts of up to 180 kilometres per hour, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Namtheun was on track to pass near the small subtropical island of Amami, which lies between Okinawa and Kyushu, on Saturday, the agency said.
In 2013, a powerful typhoon that triggered massive landslides on Oshima island, 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of Tokyo, killed 40 people, while 82 died after a typhoon hit Japan in 2011.
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Man jailed 4.5 years for slashing maid in her sleep
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