Pamela Peck

Pamela Peck Wan-kam (Chinese: 白韻琴, born on September 1, 1944) was a Hong Kong radio agony aunt and celebrity and is a former member of Wan Chai District Council. Since 1989 she has been the partner of 'celebrity' lawyer and legislator Paul Tse.

Pamela Peck
白韻琹
Pamela Peck running 2012 Legco election
Born
Peck Wan-kam

(1944-09-01) 1 September 1944
Japanese Occupied Territory of Hong Kong
Alma materSt. Paul's Secondary School
San Francisco State University
Known forCandidate in 2010 Hong Kong by-election (Kowloon West)
Spouse(s)
(
m. 1997)
RelativesBai Chongxi (uncle)
Pai Hsien-yung (cousin)
Criminal statusreleased
Criminal chargeTax fraud
Penalty3 months in prison
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese白韻琹
Simplified Chinese白韵琴

Early life

Peck came to Hong Kong from China when she was three months old. Her dad died and her mother could not support her, so she went to live with her mother's sister, accompanied by her wet nurse.[1]

She says that her uncle was 'dissolute' and would often bring girlfriends home. But her aunt befriended them so that they left.

Peck was seen by social welfare officers. At around age 15, she ran away with a boyfriend, missing her HKCEE exams.

Career

She became a flight attendant and hosted radio programmes when not flying. She went back to school, and later studied TV broadcasting at the graduate school of San Francisco State University.

The public named her as 白小姐 or 白姐姐 during the launch of her phone-in radio talk show Heart To Heart (盡訴心中情) in 1986.

Later, on her radio show Talk of the Town people discussed their love lives on air, on which she gave typically pithy but practical advice.

Apart from her talk show, Peck is an author; she writes columns periodically in various Hong Kong magazines and newspapers. The articles were later collected into books.

Conviction and imprisonment for tax evasion

On 19 April 2001, Peck was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to three months in prison. She had forged meal receipts and employee salary records to evade $210,000 in taxes.

She pled guilty to four counts of assisting Platinum Promotion Ltd with intent to evade tax between 1994 and 1998 – effectively four taxation years – by signing fraudulent returns. She held 99.9 per cent of the shares in the company.

Peck served her sentence at Tai Lam Centre for Women. While serving her sentence, she was not allowed to contribute to any of the publications for which she wrote columns.[2][3]

Since the mid-1990s she has been the partner of prominent lawyer and legislator Paul Tse. Tse is also her legal representative.

Filmography
YearTitleRole
1981Princess Cheung Ping
武俠帝女花		Empress Dowager Hau-chong
1981Angel in Crisis
天使危機		Hui Wai-fun
1984Empress Wu
武則天		Empress Cheung-suen
1991Days of Glory
豪門		Chan Yut-ha
2010Perfect Wedding
抱抱俏佳人		TV host
gollark: I mean, loads of major buildings have been made with it, so it would be extremely triskaidecagonal if they banned it *now*.
gollark: You should re-ask.
gollark: Or was when I asked... last year?
gollark: No, it's allowed.
gollark: But you can easily autoconstruct them with turtles or schematica.

References
  1. pamela pak wan kam. HK Magazine
  2. Agony is, losing out on property market (Archive). The Standard 16 Dec 2008
  3. Pamela Pak starts prison term. Fortune City, August 2001

Political offices
Preceded by
Michael Mak		 Member of Wan Chai District Council
Representative for Broadwood
2012–2015		 Succeeded by
Paul Tse
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