Edison Chen Sex Scandal never ends in Hong Kong for naked pictures and nude video clips
Hong Kong Actor Sex Scandal Continued: Edison Chen Sex Scandal never ends in Hong Kong for naked pictures and nude video clips
Iflove News Agency: First of all, how stupid was it for one of this city’s hottest young celebrities to take hundreds of nude photographs, many of which appear to show him engaging in sex with a stunning variety of Hong Kong starlets? Then how could he compound the error by allowing those photos to wind up scoring a prodigious number of hits on the Internet and to turn up in the print media as well?
Those are the big, career-stopping rhetorical questions for Edison Chen, the 27-year-old actor and singer at the center of Hong Kong’s juiciest-ever sex scandal. Apparently, Chen saved the photographs on a computer that he sent to a shop for repairs. Soon thereafter the world was witness to the revolving door of Chen’s bedroom triumphs.
After weeks of self-imposed exile (some might say hiding) in the United States, the once supremely confident playboy returned to this celebrity-crazy city last Thursday as a miserable penitent, admitting that he had taken most of the offending photos and begging forgiveness for his astonishingly doltish role in the affair.
If this were a city in the United States - where several years ago a young celebrity by the name of Paris Hilton used an initially embarrassing sex video of her and a former boyfriend to enhance her image as a fun-loving party girl - Chen might find a way to boost his career as a result of the scandal. But this is paradoxical (and sometimes provincial) Hong Kong, where fascination with sex and celebrity manages to coexist quite comfortably with puritanical prudishness. So, while many Hong Kong people are properly appalled and revolted by Chen’s photos, that is only after they have had a good, long look - and, in a lot of cases, multiple good, long looks.
Therefore, it was necessary for the Canadian-born Chen to prostrate himself before this city’s population of 7 million at the press conference, attended by more than 200 members of the local and overseas media, that he called last week. Chen is perhaps best known for his superb performance in the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, a highly successful crime thriller directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak that was remade by Martin Scorsese as The Departed, which won best picture, among other honors, at the 2008 Academy Awards. But he has starred in many other popular films and also built a successful recording career, in recent years branching out from Canto- and Mando-pop into hip-hop.
But that career now lies in a shambles. Not only did the pop icon apologize for his role in the nude photos affair, but he also announced that he would quit show business and devote his life to charity in the next few months.
“I would like to say sorry to all the people in Hong Kong,” Chen said. “I give my apologies sincerely to you all, unreservedly and with my heart. I hope you all will accept my apology. Give me a chance.”
Edison Chen was particularly contrite in addressing his young fans, saying: “I know young people in Hong Kong look up to many figures in our society and, in this regard, I failed as a role model.” Chen added that he planned to bow out of the Hong Kong entertainment industry “indefinitely” to “heal myself and search my soul”.
Miserable is the only way to describe the way the once-proud star appeared during his seven-minute confession to the media. But, if misery loves company, there is plenty of it to go around in Hong Kong’s celebrity world these days. The reputations - and perhaps the careers - of some of the city’s brightest young female stars have been jeopardized by Chen’s photographic indiscretions.
Those compromised include Edison Chen’s current girlfriend (but perhaps soon-to-be former) Vincy Yeung, the niece of Emperor Entertainment Group chairman Albert Yeung, as well as Gillian Chung of the Canto-pop duo Twins, former actress, singer and model Bobo Chan, model-actress Rachel Ngan and singer-actresses Candice Chan and Cecilia Cheung. Cheung happens to be the wife of another Hong Kong pop star, Nicholas Tse.
Twins star Chung is so far the only other celebrity involved in the scandal to publicly apologize. Not that it did her much good. With outraged moralists now calling for a boycott of her performances, Chung canceled an appearance over the weekend at a charity event promoting Hong Kong as host of the Summer Olympic Games equestrian competition this summer - although her Twins partner, Charlene Choi, did appear. According to her management group, Chung missed the event because she was stricken by a fever, but many suspect the real reason was the rising temperature of criticism she has prompted on the Internet.
Returning to the stupidity theme, what were Chung and her fellow nubile starlets thinking when these photographs were snapped? Or were they thinking at all? Were they even aware that their kinkiness with Chen was being recorded and could wind up as cyber fodder for a global community of vicious voyeurs? That part of the story is still unknown, so the revelations will no doubt continue. The sex- and scandal-crazed Hong Kong media will see to that. The story, now a month old, may have peaked with Chen’s mea culpa, but it promises to live on. There is simply too much money to be made for it to die.
It is not just those appearing in the nude photos whose reputations have been damaged, however. The Hong Kong police have added another embarrassing dimension to the sordid saga. In their zeal to stop the rapidly metastasizing spread of the photos on the Internet and in the press, they arrested nine people and charged three. Police Commissioner Tang King-shing also made the alarming announcement that simple possession of any of the photos could constitute a crime, an assertion that Assistant Commissioner Vincent Wong seemed to contradict two days later, when he said that sharing the photos with friends would not be considered a violation of the law.
After the commissioner’s remark drew a barrage of invective on the Internet, Tang added to the confusion by saying, “Everyone has his or her own view. Some people think I was right while some don’t.”
However, at least when it comes to matters of law, shouldn’t ordinary people feel confident that their police commissioner knows what he is talking about? That is no longer the case in Hong Kong, whose police department, long considered among the best in Asia, has taken a blow along with the celebrities caught up in the scandal.
It was clear that police acted hastily when the first person arrested over the photos - Chung Yik-tin, 29, who was charged with publishing an obscene article - was released on February 15 after two weeks behind bars. His release came because the maddeningly fickle Obscene Articles Tribunal ruled that the photographs he had distributed on the Internet were not obscene.
Given the graphic nature of some of those photographs - for example, one depicts Chung naked with her legs spread while in bed with Chen - that ruling must have come as a surprise not just to the police but also to most of Hong Kong. After all, this is the same tribunal that in 1995 classified as “indecent” a photo of Michelangelo’s statue of David because the biblical king’s genitals were shown. It also gave the same classification to relatively tame photos clandestinely taken of Chung changing clothes backstage at a concert in Malaysia in 2006.
To the ordinary eye, the Chen photos were in another league that could well be considered obscene. Still, why didn’t police seek a ruling from the tribunal before making their arrests? In light of the far more extreme smut that is easily available in cyberspace and in print, there was a public perception that police had acted precipitously in this case because of the big names and reputations involved. Instead of quelling the scandal, then, the police response only added fuel to the fire.
At this point, the Edison sex scandal has reached such epic proportions that Hong Kong parents, not noted for their sexual openness, have started talking about it with their children. Meanwhile, educators are considering using Chen’s humiliation as an object lesson in the classroom to promote sexual modesty and responsibility. Conservative religious groups see the affair as yet another sign that Hong Kong has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Mostly lost in all the sexual titillation, police bungling and largely hypocritical moral posturing is the fact that Edison Chen’s nude photos were quite likely stolen and that the privacy of all those depicted in them has been grossly violated. This, apparently, is the price of celebrity (combined with stupidity) in Hong Kong. With this scandal now so thoroughly burned into the collective conscience of the city, it should be a long time before another Hong Kong star hands over a computer for repairs.
Just buy a new one.
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