Taiwanese actress & singer Barbie Hsu who starred in Meteor Garden dies ‘from pneumonia’ aged 48 after family holiday

TAIWANESE histrion Barbie Hsu, known for starring successful the deed 2001 TV bid Meteor Garden, has tragically died aged 48.

The prima passed distant from pneumonia, her sister confirmed, arsenic tributes person poured successful from crossed the world.

Hsu is thought to person fallen sick portion visiting Japan.

Her heartbroken sister, Dee Hsu, confirmed her decease to Taiwan's TVBS News connected Monday.

She said: "During the Lunar New Year, our household came to Japan for vacation.

"My dearest sister Barbie has unluckily near america aft getting pneumonia, triggered by influenza."

Hsu's vocation began astatine 17 years aged successful a popular duo with her sister Dee.

They soon became celebrated TV hosts who were renowned for their animated benignant and large consciousness of humour.

But erstwhile Hsu was formed successful the 1990s TV adaptation of a Japanese comic Meteor Garden, her vocation sky-rocketed beyond Chinese entertainment.

Hsu played the quality of Shancai - a teen from a middle-class inheritance who goes to an elite backstage school.

Here she finds herself successful a emotion web with the heirs of unthinkable affluent families.

On Monday, F4 subordinate Ken Chu posted a achromatic surface arsenic good arsenic a radical photograph with the precocious prima connected Instagram.

He past wrote connected Chinese societal media level Weibo: "What a bolt from the blue."

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