Sum Ting Wong is the stage name of Bo Zeng, a

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. She is best known for her appearance on the

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Early life

Bo Zeng was born in Birmingham to Vietnamese immigrant parents of Chinese descent.

Career

Sum Ting Wong's name comes from an incident in 2013, when

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aired stereotypical Chinese-sounding

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pilots including "Sum Ting Wong" (something wrong), "Wi Tu Lo" (we retoo low), "Ho Lee Fuk" (holy fuck), and "Bang Ding Ow" (onomatopoeias of sounds made when crash landing). Wong has said she chose to reappropriate the name for herself to reflect her British Vietnamese heritage. She competed on the

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streamer and musician.

Filmography

Television

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Web series

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References

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century English LGBTQ people Drag performers from Birmingham, West Midlands English drag queens English gay musicians English people of Chinese descent English people of Vietnamese descent English Twitch (service) streamers LGBTQ streamers Mass media people from Birmingham, West Midlands Musicians from Birmingham, West Midlands RuPaul's Drag Race UK contestants {{LGBT-bio-stub