The responsibility of the artistes is to teach and they are also required to showcase the best qualities of their charges to the judges and audience.
Retaining its original format of a large-scale talent-search program, Star Search 2007 will incorporate new elements.
Gracing the occasion was Dr Balaji Sadasivan, the Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts。 20 contestants remained in the competition at this stage.
The talent segment will be set in a club in the 1920-30s and features MediaCorp actor Adam Chen as narrator.
MediaCorp actress Ng Hui will play a wealthy girl out shopping with her curry-favouring maid.
MediaCorp actress Pan Lingling making a guest appearance as Jerry's shrewd wife.
The acting segment will feature 5 students going on a field trip co-starring with MediaCorp actor Zhang Wen Xiang as their teacher.
Contestants will perform a song-and-dance item to the tunes of Beautiful Sunday and Qiao He which are hits songs back in the 1970s.
Skit 1 involves contestants F6 Lee Mei Leng, M4 Chang Hao Ying and M6 Jackson Tan.
Quan Yi Fong guest-stars as the gossipy café boss Feng Jie.
Apart from the 10 mentors Zheng Geping, Huang Wenyong, Chen Liping, Chen Hanwei, Tay Ping Hui, Huang Biren, Ivy Lee, Hong Huifang, Edmund Chen and Rayson Tan, Star Search alumni Zoe Tay, Chew Chor Meng, Ix Shen, Felicia Chin, Vivian Lai, Yao Wenlong, Florence Tan, Jeff Wang, Aileen Tan, Brandon Wong, Chen Tianwen, Dennis Chew, Patricia Mok, Bryan Wong and Kym Ng attended the Grand Final.
Besides the 3 resident judges, Taiwanese artiste Lang Tzu-yun, Hong Kong director Alfred Cheung and Senior Vice President of Chinese Drama Kok Len Shoong, Hong Kong actor Kenny Bee, local artiste Fann Wong and Deputy Group CEO (TV) Chang Long Jong will also be accessing the finalists in their performances.