He’s gone from teen idol to thirst trap faster than you can name all the Eight Dukes. Ch 8 bad boy EDWIN GOH is all grown up and back to wreak havoc on TV. This time with abs.
Edwin Goh has been around the block and back. And quite literally too. We’re having lunch with the 23-year-old actor at a restaurant along Orchard Road, and just around the block from where we are is where Edwin first tasted the kind of stardom that many dream about.
It was 2011 and the then 16-year-old actor was on top of the world after the success of Ch 8 drama On The Fringe 2011, where he played the brooding delinquent son of reformed gangster Li Nanxing, who himself shot to stardom in the 1987 original drama of the same name. Edwin was set to make an appearance at a fan-meet at Cineleisure Orchard and it was supposed to be a just another run-ofthe-mill event. One which Edwin and the rest of his co-stars, like Ian Fang, Kimberly Chia and Elizabeth Lee (all of whom weren’t born when the OG drama aired) had feared no one would show up. It ended up becoming something you would see in one of those Black Friday sale riot videos (see inset pic).
Over 2,000 over-enthusiastic fans descended upon the young upstarts in a way we hadn’t seen since Fann versus Zoe was a thing. (Remember when that rivalry was all we could talk about?) Their limbs were grabbed, the sleeve of Edwin’s jacket got torn and the increasingly unruly crowd suddenly became a legit safety hazard. And so the one-hour event where Edwin and gang were supposed to sign autographs and pose for photos was cancelled after just half an hour.
You can still see videos of that day on YouTube. It’s a fascinating watch mostly because… when was the last time you saw Ch 8 stars get mobbed like that? Also the expressions of genuine awe (not to mention, fear) on the faces of Edwin and gang are priceless. Sure, Nanxing, Fann Wong and Rui En were the stars of On the Fringe 2011, but it was the kids who ran away with the spotlight. And of that group, there was no star brighter than Edwin’s.
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