Kim's High
Note
There was a bit of jesting going on when Kim
Fortune, wife of Manchester United star, Quinton Fortune,
took to the mic to sing for a charity do at Wing’s Lincoln Square
restaurant this week. Guests,
who included Manchester City players Claudio Reyna and Paul Bosvelt,
tried to cajole her into singing Blue Moon
But the joking soon stopped once they heard
her sing. Diners stumped-up £1,300 for Kim to sing her first
song.
The Carpenters’ Yesterday Once More. And, although admitting to
be nervous, Kim, who is now working with an independent record
label in her home country, South Africa, impressed the Chinese
New Year revellers so much
that they paid out the same amount again for her to sing another
one – but not Blue Moon.
The night raised more than £50,000 for
the Genesis Appeal, which researches the genetic prevention of
breast cancer
Carmel Thomason
The Diary
Manchester Evening News -11th February 2005
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Sun’s wake up call
Manchester City’s Sun Jihai was woken at 5am
to hear about his friend and English translator,
Wing Shing Chu’s fund-raising efforts for the Genesis Appeal.
But thankfully for the Chinese soccer star,
it was at a more civilised hour that Wing invited him over
to his Lincoln Square restaurant to hand over a cheque to charity
organisers for the £50,000 raised.
Wing raised the amount at a Chinese New Year
dinner at the venue, at which he donated all the food and drink
as well as holding an auction of sports memorabilia, including
a city shirt signed by Sun Jihai.
But when Wing called to tell of the news Jihai,
who was in China at the time, had finished his New Year revelryand
was quietly tucked up in bed. He knew I was ringing but when I
called he was asleep and couldn’t speak at first. Wing laughs,
When he woke up, he wished everyone a happy new year and said
hello to all the guests, including his team-mates,
Paul Bosvelt and Claudio Reyna, and was really pleased to hear
that his shirt had raised £1,500.
Quinton Fortune’s wife, Kim, added £3,000
to the total by singing on the night and bookmaker Fred Done’s
wife
bumped up donations by handing over a cheque for £10,000.
The money is to build the first breast cancer
prevention centre, which has now been given the go-ahead
with two of the rooms being named after W
Carmel Thomason
The Diary
Manchester Evening News – 21st April 2005
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