Regina Ip gets ‘leg up’ in chief executive race by showing off blue boot on radio show

NPP chair also mocks fellow contender Carrie Lam over toilet paper revelation

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Regina Ip shows off her blue ankle boot. Photo: Handout

Published: 4:15pm, 23 Jan 2017Updated: 11:07pm, 23 Jan 2017

In what was yet another bizarre moment for the city’s chief executive contenders, Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee yesterday lifted her leg above the table of a live radio programme to show off her boots.

The New People’s Party chairwoman was in the middle of a Facebook Live session with radio host Stephen Chan Chi-wan. The two were having a light-hearted chat during a break on morning talk show On a Clear Day.

Chan said Ip’s blue sweater matched her handbag and shoes, and asked her to show the boots to the audience. Ip agreed and raised her left leg above the table. “I love playing with fashion,” she said.

Ip bought the boots from Italian label ASH at high-end department store Lane Crawford two years ago for more than HK$1,000, her assistant said.

On the same radio show last week, Chan asked fellow chief executive contenders, former Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and former Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah to take off their glasses to show the audience “a different side”.

Meanwhile, Lam’s recent bizarre revelation that she made a midnight dash from a serviced apartment in Wan Chai to her official residence at the peak for toilet paper continued to be used by rivals to mock her for being out of touch with regular civilian life.