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F4 REUNION: F4 are back together after seven years. The former Taiwanese boy band, comprising Jerry Yan, Vic Chou, Ken Chu and Van Ness Wu, last performed together at Jiangsu Television's Spring Festival Gala in January 2013. The Chinese television s
F4 comprise (above, from left) Van Ness Wu, Jerry Yan, Vic Chou and Ken Chu. PHOTO: DANGDAI YULE/WEIBO

F4 REUNION: F4 are back together after seven years. The former Taiwanese boy band, comprising Jerry Yan, Vic Chou, Ken Chu and Van Ness Wu, last performed together at Jiangsu Television's Spring Festival Gala in January 2013.

The Chinese television station announced earlier this week that they would be performing together on the show One Thousand And One Nights, which would air today.

The station also released a trailer showing the four stars promoting the show separately.

While fans of F4 were excited about the news of the reunion, they reacted differently to how their idols look now.

Many said Yan, 43, and Chou, 39, were still as handsome as they used to be in the latest video, while Wu, 42, still looked stylish.

However, they said that Chu, 41, appeared to have gained weight, noting that his face has grown rounder.

F4 shot to stardom overnight in the popular 2001 idol drama, Meteor Garden, an adaptation of the Japanese girls' comic Boys Over Flowers.

The show led to a sequel in 2002 and also subsequent television adaptations in Japan and South Korea and a remake in China. The show's theme song Meteor Rain also became famous and led to F4-mania in Asia.

The four have gone their separate ways since 2009.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 30, 2020, with the headline On social media. Subscribe