"Happy camp" fire, host He Gui Xie Na also fire; "The Voice of China" fire, Huashao also followed the fire. And who are the hosts of the program fire and the host is not fire? Ace vs. Ace" host Shen Tao, and "China's Got Talent" host Cheng Lei.
What is the audience's impression of Cheng Lei, the host of Oriental TV? Less white head, thin, love to laugh, more affinity, and the rest? It seems there is no more. Although Cheng Lei has also hosted some nationally known programs, until now he is not as well known as He Gui, Hua Shao, Meng Fei and others.
Graduated from the acting department and entered the TV station
Many people have watched the programs hosted by Cheng Lei, but very often they can't name Cheng Lei's name. Many people don't even know that Cheng Lei didn't study broadcasting and hosting, but rather acting.
Cheng Lei, born in Shanghai in 1971, graduated from the acting department of the Shanghai Theater Academy. After graduation, he didn't enter the film industry like many of his classmates, but went straight to Shanghai TV and started hosting the variety show "Intelligence Surf". Being a host requires genuine emotion, but it also undeniably requires a proper performance that doesn't provoke resentment, and in this regard Cheng Lei has an advantage, by definition.
Cheng Lei has hosted a variety of programs over the years, mainly variety shows, and in 2006 he hosted the Shanghai version of the dance competition program "Host Dance Forest", which was the precursor to the nationally-acclaimed "Dance Forest".
In 2007, Cheng Lei co-hosted the celebrity ice dance reality show "Star Dance" with Ji Xueping, who played Bai Xue in "The Flower Season of Sixteen". Still in the same year, Cheng Lei and Chen Chen hosted the experiential variety show "Flowery Years".
"China's Got Talent" helped Cheng Lei rise to fame
By 2008, Cheng Lei began hosting the second season of "Dance Forest Conference," which also drew the attention of many viewers nationwide.
In 2010, Cheng Lei's breakout year, he and hostess Ni Lin hosted the dating show "One in a Hundred" and began hosting the reality show "China's Got Talent". The program, which generated buzz that year, featured Zhou Libo, Yi Nengjing and Gao Xiaosong as observers in its first season, with Liu Wei eventually winning the overall title.
Since that year, "China's Got Talent" has been held for five consecutive seasons, creating a big impact. Only for many viewers, especially those outside Shanghai, people remember the performance of the contestants and observers more than the host Cheng Lei.
Cheng Lei is not a toxic judge
Cheng Lei started his career as a host and judge in 2012. That year, in addition to hosting "China's Got Talent," he began to serve as a judge on the first season of the singing reality show "Mamma Mia". The program invites several mothers with certain performing abilities to appear on the show each time, and touches many people while offering their talents. Mamma Mia has been going on for many seasons and is still going on this year.
Cheng Lei once said when he was a judge for the first time that he himself was not good at imitating other judges and could not be that kind of venomous judge, and that he was just enough to say what he really felt. "You let me quarrel I really will not, and not because I became a judge can look down on others."
Wife nearly 20 years younger than Cheng Lei
Talking about Cheng Lei's love life, he had a fling with his co-host Chen Chen, a host of Shanghai TV program. He is now married to Wang Mengmeng, host of Oriental TV's "Entertainment Star World".
Wang Mengmeng is nearly 20 years younger than Cheng Lei, a native of Qingdao, Shandong province, who graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts at Fudan University and served as the 2008 Beijing Olympics award ceremony lady. in September 2013, Cheng Lei and Wang Mengmeng registered to get married. in February 2015, Cheng Lei's son was born.
It is worth saying that Cheng Lei's family has a history of genetic diseases, during which he once suspended his hosting work because of his illness, and his hair began to turn much grayer, but Wang Mengmeng has always been unfailingly devoted to him.
Good host in the eyes of Shanghai viewers
Overall, Cheng Lei is a less-than-variety-show host. This is not entirely derogatory, he always shows a sense of proportion on stage, does not easily joke to pull down the segment of the program, very affable expression and can pull in the distance with the guests and contestants, can be said to be a person who can accomplish the task without reinforcing his own style.
In the eyes of the Shanghai audience, Cheng Lei should be a typical Shanghai man with a sense of progress and retreat, very much in line with the tastes of the Shanghai audience. Cheng Lei fits the image of a meticulous and cautious Shanghai man, and is regarded as an excellent "son-in-law spokesman" by Shanghai aunts and mothers.
For viewers in other parts of the country who are used to seeing hosts with more externalized hosting styles, Cheng Lei's performance was a bit too modest to be seen as distinctive, making him less likely to be remembered.
The lack of a distinctive style is perhaps Cheng Lei's more notable style.