Chiaki (television personality)

Girlhood

Until the fifth grade, she describes herself as having been a "quiet and withdrawn child." Her report card would invariably read, "Be more proactive," and she dreaded Sports Day because she was never good at athletics. The turning point came during her fifth grade years when she met her homeroom teacher, who was also a music teacher. This teacher recognized her talent for the piano, assigning her as an accompanist and selecting her to be a model for playing the recorder, which helped her gain self-confidence for the very first time.

Her parents forbade her from reading manga because they believed it had a negative influence on children, however Doraemon was the only one she was allowed to read, with her parents deeming it "educational" and "harmless."

Character

Due to her petite, baby-faced childish appearance and high voice, she is often seen as much younger than her actual age. In addition to being a poisonous tongue, she sometimes talks to senior entertainers, including Ucchan Nanchan, as described below, without hesitation during the performance.

Lifestyle

She said she couldn't cook at all before she got married. Also, in the 1996 show Urinari on the "Chiaki vs Vivian Cooking Showdown" segment, she couldn't think of a general recipe for the theme of making prepared foods and single dishes. In the end, she used a lot of chocolate, biscuits, drops, marshmallows, etc. in the "arrangement" using her favorite sweets, but she was surprised by the referee Teruyoshi Uchimura because she put in an amount that can not be said to be a secret taste. The name of the mysterious dish that gives off its eerie sweet scent is Chiaki's "fantasy of light and darkness." In the end, Uchimura decided that Vivian, who cooked the right food, won. However, after getting married, she started cooking, and now she has a good skill. She's especially good at "eggplant and minced meat curry". From April 2005 to March 2006, she would appear on the mini cooking program Recipe for Happiness.

Family

Her former husband is comedian Shozo Endo (Cocorico). In the same year, they developed a romantic relationship because they were big fans of the Hanshin Tigers, and married in 2002. But five years later, they divorced in 2007 due to smoking cessation. Endo was often referred to as "Endo-kun", "husband", "our Endo" on television, and "husband" or "housekeeper" in books and blogs, but in private, he was called "comedy". After getting married, the couple's co-starring was realized only a few times because of Endo's intention to "separate work and private life". Therefore, most of the couple's co-starring after marriage was done in a stunning format that Chiaki appeared secretly to Endo. On March 22, 2016, she remarried a man who was a TBS TV employee 15 years younger, until they divorced on October 27, 2024.

Friendships

Vivian Hsu is a close friend of hers, partly because he had a hard time during the Urinari era. Also, Nanako Fujisaki, who also co-starred in Urinari, is on good terms, such as going to each other's house. However, during the Urinari era, the program staff told him that "Vivian's manager is annoying", and after being shocked, Chiaki began to take a naive attitude toward Vivian, and Vivian suddenly changed. It turned out later that this was a lie of the staff to fuel the opposition at the time of the confrontation, with Chiaki in Pocket Biscuits and Vivian in Black Biscuits as the main vocals, which was set to be in conflict at that time. Co-starring has rarely disappeared in the last few years, but she was very close friends with Ucchan Nanchan's Teruyoshi Uchimura and Kiyotaka Nanbara, who co-starred in "Urinari" for many years. Unnan is a senior entertainer, but he is calm and speaks with a tame mouth. She's also on good terms with Yoiko Kyaeen, who also competed in Urinari. Masaru Hamaguchi is a friend who goes out to play and exchanges emails on a regular basis. Occasionally Chiaki blogs about Hamaguchi as "girl's best friend".

Tetsuro Degawa, Keiichi Yamamoto (Gokuraku Tombo), and former Fuji TV announcer Shio Chino are said to be friends with dogs and monkeys (He doesn't really hate both).

The actress Kanan Nakahara was a junior high school classmate who kept an exchange diary at that time. Actor Tomoharu Hasegawa is a friend of the same grade in high school. The first entertainer friend she made was actress Nene Otsuka.

Naoko Ken is listed as a target entertainer because she has a good balance between work and family.

She has a friendship with Mayo Okamoto, Sae Isshiki, and YOU who are the same talent moms as her.

In terms of music, in addition to Mayo Okamoto, there are Tomomi Kahara and Nanase Aikawa.

She loves her own brand "Ribbon Casquette" and is on good terms with Rie Tomosaka, who is the same talent as herself. Having co-starred in a drama, she got along well with Yuki Uchida, and she went on a trip to Las Vegas alone. Good friends with illustrator Uni Ota. She says that the sense in his head fits perfectly. She has co-starred with Tomoe Shinohara several times on the program, but at the beginning she had a relationship of acquaintance. After that, she started playing from a sudden kick, and because they had many common hobbies, they became very close. She says on her blog that she often goes shopping with Becky at second-hand clothing stores such as Koenji. In addition to shopping, Becky also loves Chiaki's daughter, and the three of them play a lot. We also gave the three of them the unit name "Tiramisu Pudding". Also, Becky helped Chiaki's daughter practice walking well, and it was Becky, not Chiaki, who saw her for the first time. She was on good terms with Ai Iijima after co-starring on the show, and she was close enough to email him frequently.

Feature films

Television animation

Theatrical animation