Yesterday, Japanese media revealed that Zhongju Masahiro has decided to leave Johnny's office. Today he held a press conference to officially announce the news.
Zhongju Masahiro said that he would leave Johnny at the end of March, which happened to be three years after SMAP was dissolved, which was an opportunity.
He founded his personal firm "のんび㊪りな" the day before. The company now has no employees and no agents, and will not join other companies in the future.
Zhongju revealed that in fact, about two years after SMAP was disbanded, he had already begun to consider changing the environment and doing a career alone.
decided to leave the J family in June last year, and also proposed to the company and obtained consent. However, President Kitakawa was seriously ill at that time. If he announced his withdrawal from the company immediately after that, it might cause panic among other members, so he chose to postpone the announcement until now.
On the scene, he showed a small bottle containing the ashes of President Kitagawa, expressing his hope that he can give himself strength.
Zhongju said that the withdrawal from J Society and the establishment of a personal firm were all their own decisions and had not been discussed with others.
Many reporters may be curious about how Zhongju Zhengguang’s relationship with four other former SMAP members are now asked if he informed them. Zhongju said that he sent a private message report to the four members yesterday.
A reporter asked further questions, "The possibility of the SMAP combination being resurrected, Zhongju showed a high emotional intelligence and replied, "The probability is 1%-99%, definitely not 0!".
Zhongju Zhengguang, 47 years old this year, joined the Johnnie firm at the age of 14, and it had been 33 years in March.
April 1988 and Kimura Takuya , Inagaki Goro , Kusakata, Shingo Kasumi, and Mori Naoyu formed the SMAP, and made its debut on September 9, 1991 as the CD "Can't Stop!!-Loving".
As the captain of SMAP, he led the group to become the National Group of Japan, with extremely high popularity and social influence. "The Only Flower in the World" was praised as a famous song in Japan, and its sales volume exceeded 3 million.
SMAP became popular for more than 20 years. The famous Japanese reporter Soichiro Tahara was surprised and said, "Every era has its own national idol, but no one has been popular for so many years." SMAP has always stood at the top of the idol industry and became a legend of a generation.
In addition to acting as an idol, Zhongju’s personal activities are also extremely brilliant.
, especially as a host, has a high national recognition and is an artist at the "big thing" level.
In 1997, he was selected as the host of Red and White Song Club , known as the "Japanese Spring Festival Gala", becoming the youngest host of the White Group in the history of Red and White. He has hosted 6 times in total.
has also hosted many large-scale programs such as "FNS27 Hours TV", "Music Day", "Earthquake Disaster", "CDTV New Year's Eve SP", and has hosted many Olympic Games in succession.
It can be said that Zhongju Zhengguang has become the "variety show dominant", which means that his TV shows are almost every day, so why do the audience never get tired of him? Because of his kind image and his good response and lively personal performance, he deeply touched every audience.
In addition to being lively and popular, his vicious tongue has become his cuteness from time to time, but Zhongju's serious appearance is also very touching.
For example, in the past few years, the Becky mistress incident shocked the Japanese art industry and the highly-watched Becky confession program invited Zhongju to have an interview to experience Zhongju's conversation skills that made Becky face his heart step by step
There are many rumors in the outside world about the dissolution of SMAP, such as Takuya Kimura was marked as a "traitor" by public opinion, and Shingo Kasuke was criticized for being "willful and ignorant, and mentally fragile". Zhongju desperately defended all the team members who had been together for 28 years in the program.
He said: "No one is bad. The team members have really worked very hard this year. They have mixed emotions and a complicated year, and worked very hard. Until the end, they have been trying their best to be an SMAP. I really want to reward them and praise them. This is what I have always wanted to express."
Private Zhongju is also very caring. In 2016, Kumamoto earthquake occurred. He was witnessed to go to the disaster area for rescue. This is his private itinerary, not arranged by the company.
He is now a primary school in Kumamoto disaster area, and he brings his own kitchen utensils to provide fried rice for the victims. Although Johnnys' affairs has strict portrait rights protection, he took off his mask and took photos for everyone for the victims' photography requirements. He is quite friendly to the people.
After independence, Zhongju will continue to work hard. Although he is a person on the cloud, he still hopes that he can find a partner as soon as possible. Can you also look forward to the SMAP reunion?
