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The Star, Malaysia
March 5, 2007

Wu Vows 'em despite a bad leg

GENTING HIGHLANDS: It takes more than an injured leg to keep a real star down, as Taiwanese heartthrob Vanness Wu proved at the Arena of Stars here on Saturday night.

The singer, who performed with the help of a cane after hurting his right leg in a fall during rehersal earlier in the day, still managed to put on an entertaining show.

Almost 2,000 fans turned up to see their idol in action, including a good number from foreign countries like Japan, South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines.

"I apologise to all of you because I am not at 100%, but I want to put on a good show, anyway," said the American-born singer at the start of the concert.

The 29-year-old Wu was in fine form throughout the two-hour concert, performing a good vareity of songs ranging from hits like I Hate Myself, My Body Can Sing and Thinking Ten Of You, to covers of rock songs by Green Day and Queen.

The cane did not seem to hamper him at all, instead he used it to good effect during his elaborate and well-chereographed dance sequences.

Wu is also a member of popular Taiwanese boyband F4, one of the most popular pop groups in Asia in recent years, thanks to the enormous success of their Tv series Meteor Garden.