Danny McGill lives! That's the message from Audrey Tay, director of corporate communications for Interruption TV in Singapore. Ms Tay was responding to an item in this column on February 25 asking what the former VJ was up to.
Readers will recall that after leaving Hong Kong's Star TV, McGill moved back to his native United States, only to relocate to Singapore for a presenter's job with MTV Asia.
He left the music channel at the end of last year and sent out Lunar New Year cards saying he was now the chairman of Interruption TV. Last month Soundbites said despite repeated e-mails to McGill he never replied.
Ms Tay suggested his silence might have been because the company was moving offices. But that still doesn't explain why the e-mails came to nothing, as the address remains the same - over to you again Ms Tay.
Last week the South China Morning Post, Oriental Daily News and Apple Daily each carried large advertisements for readers to suggest a name and draw a masthead for a stable of four new newspapers and a magazine.
The winner of each category stood to win $100,000, the advertisement continued, but it offered no clues as to which Hong Kong publisher was behind the scheme. The word around town is that it is Oriental Press Group, publishers of the Oriental Daily News , although the firm is refusing to comment.