Those who watched the Golden Bell Awards closely on Wednesday night may have noticed that there was one star who didn't amble down the red carpet into the venue. That was none other than cult hero (at least to some) porn actor A-hsian (阿賢).
According to Apple Daily, (蘋果日報) the male protagonist in the Taiwan Plumber (台灣水電工) epic had hoped for an invitation to attend the ceremony and enter, along with the other TV and movie stars, by walking the red carpet. But ETTV, which organized the event, took the wind out of his sails with an emphatic rejection. He wasn't even invited to enter through the side door.
Before he'd been turned down to appear at the awards ceremony, A-hsian had scrambled to find a suitable partner with whom to make his grand entrance. First he turned to Hsuan-Hsuan (
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Having been rejected by his former partner, he turned to two ladies who had their big break with their clothes off: Yu Jie (于緁) and Little Pan-pan (小潘潘). They both said no, though.
Maybe he should have looked up the Little Dragon Girl, who made the cover of Next Magazine last week. The former star has fallen on hard times and has returned to Pingtung County to till the fields. She was the magazine's girl of the week in its current edition.
Reacting to the triple snub and the lack of a forthcoming invitation from ETTV, he said he'd wear the NT$70,000 Gucci suit he'd bought for the occasion at the press conference for the release of his nude photo book.
Poor A-hsian seems like he's been singled out for exclusion from the Golden Bell Awards when considering the abundance of TV channels that have recently fallen afoul of Government Information Office regulations for unsuitable content. Two weeks ago Pop Stop reported on Momoko Tao (陶晶塋) having raised GIO bureaucrats' ire for the sexually explicit content of her daily talk show on Phoenix TV.
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