Hello From The Michelle Side

And by the Michelle side, we mean the side where you get to travel, live life, and take on showbiz projects only when you feel like it. Not all of us are as lucky — and happy — as MICHELLE CHIA.

- Celine Tan

March 2013. That, folks, was the last time Michelle Chia was on the cover of this magazine. Five whole years ago. It’s a lifetime and a half for a woman who used to be a regular fixture in our pages. Michelle has appeared on the cover of 8 DAYS no less than 20 times (mostly solo, sometimes with other stars) in 10 years (her first cover was in 2003, Issue #661; her last, in 2013, #1170) The second last time she fronted an issue of 8 DAYS, in June 2012, she declared, “This may be the last time you see me on 8 DAYS.” That was the year she announced that she was quitting full-time showbiz. While that “last time on 8 DAYS prediction” didn’t come true, ’cos we shot her again for our cover the following year, I think we can safely say that this magazine you are holding in your hands, dear readers, Issue #1447, will be the last time you see Michelle Chia on the cover of 8 DAYS Magazine. It’s not ’cos we don’t love her anymore, ’cos we do, but ’cos the last print issue of this mag will hit newsstands in the final week of September, after which we will embrace our fresh status as a fully-digital content provider. That leaves us with a few precious issues left. Nostalgia set in, a little. Who else to grace one of our last few covers than a gal whose brilliant smile and expressive peepers have launched thousands of issues of this magazine, and whose face we miss on these pages, very much? It was a beautiful coincidence that after being largely absent from our screens for the past six years (her last acting gig was a supporting role in 2016 drama The Queen, and her last lead role was in 2012’s Pillow Talk), we’ll be seeing her in new Ch 8 drama, Gifted