Infidelity apology breaks social-media record
Wen Zhang, star of the Chinese soap opera Naked Marriage, has reportedly set a record for re-tweets and comments, after apologizing online to his pregnant wife, Ma Yili, for an affair.
Busted canoodling with co-star Yao Di, Wen used Weibo, the Chinese social-media site, to say, “I have brought this upon myself … I am willing to accept all the consequences. I’ve let down Ma Yili and our children. … It will be difficult for me to make amends … (but) this is what I’ll do for the rest of my life.”
The Hollywood Reporter says the post collected 2.5 million comments, and well over 1 million re-tweets, (re-weibos?), and counting.
Ma replied: “Being in love is easy, being married is not. It is to be cherished.” Translation: Get used to the sofa, you jerk.
(A “naked marriage” is a wedding without a party, fancy dress, etc.)
The daughter of Orson Welles found some boxes of his old junk, including the camera he used for home movies. This stuff instantly, mysteriously transmuted into priceless memorabilia — but not so priceless that she can’t sell it. Heritage Auctions, in L.A., will offer the stuff April 26.
Beatrice Welles, youngest of the four known children of the actor/ director/producer/genius, told the New York Post she could have given the stuff to a museum, but that would have been “the last thing he would’ve wanted. He just did not believe in schooling, he did not believe in academic things …”
Her solicitude is touching, considering that she refused to talk to him for many years.
Beatrice is 58. Welles died in 1985, at 70.
Spotlight couple: People mag says
Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, co-stars in the FX spy drama Americans, have been seen around New York lately committing public displays of affection. They were seen together in Brooklyn around Christmas, and now this.
She’s 38. He’s 39.
Israeli officials have imposed broadcast limits on a TV commercial featuring model Bar Rafaeli in bed with a Muppet-like character and two copies of herself.
It’s an ad for Hoodies, a clothing company, but the product is not identified until the end of the 54-second spot. That’s when the puppet guy — the locally popular avatar of American-Israeli rocker Red Orbach — discovers that it’s been a dream: the three Bars rolling around on his bed with him, washing his car, wearing not much … you get the idea.
An agency called the Second Authority for Television and Radio has banished the ad to after 10 p.m., saying it contains “too many sexual insinuations” for kids. Write if you get work: Brooklyn Beckham, oldest of David and
Victoria Beckham’s four kids, has launched his modelling career, with a teenage-fashion spread in Man About Town.
Never heard of it? Me neither. Turns out it’s one of those glossy three-kilo magazines that we Dull Normals are not intended to read. Specifically, this thing is “targeted at high-end business-engaged and culturally orientated male urbanites,” according to The Independent, a British paper.
Brooklyn is 15.