William Hung

William Hung (Traditional Chinese: 孔慶翔, Simplified Chinese: 孔庆翔) (born January 13, 1983) is a Chinese American college student who gained fame and notoriety in early 2004 as a result of his audition performance of Ricky Martin's hit song "She Bangs" on the television series American Idol, Season 3.

TV commercials and movies

Hung appeared in commercials for the search engine Ask Jeeves and mobile phone service provider Cingular Wireless.

Related Topics:
Ask Jeeves - Cingular Wireless

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His first movie, a HK$10 million (US$2 million) Hong Kong period comedy called Where is Mama's Boy?, was released in January 2005. Hung played a good-natured village kid who sells Chinese pancakes to pay his mother's medical bills and gets discovered as a singer and helps a woman protect her business from a jealous and scheming older sister. In this film Hung played opposite to veteran Hong Kong actress Nancy Sit and parodied his own American Idol performance with the song Shao Bing (Chinese Pancake), obviously a deliberate allusion to the title of his American Idol audition song, She Bangs.

Related Topics:
Hong Kong - Where is Mama's Boy? - Nancy Sit

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Hung was also the subject of a documentary called Hangin' With Hung, an hour and a half long film documenting Hung's sudden rise in fame.

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