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It has been a rather exciting week for celebrity gossip hounds. The Hong Kong paparazzi dropped a bombshell: Reports indicate that Taiwan's 51-year-old retired diva Brigitte Lin (林青霞) is on the verge of walking away from her marriage of 12 years to the pint-sized Xing Li-yuan (邢李源), who is estimated to be worth a cool NT$60 billion.

Press reports point the finger at Xing for getting cozy with a 30-year-old Chinese woman who previously worked at his clothing empire Espirit.

Lin, on the other hand, was spotted visiting a breast cancer doctor last month and returning to Taiwan to visit her 87-year-old father by herself last week.

According to Chinese-language dailies, the mother of two daughters had recently told her girlfriends: "I am planning to move out of the house. But I have too much jewelry that needs to be kept in a safe." The remark was interpreted by the press as a sign of impending divorce.

As of press time, the husband denies the reported rift while the wife and the family lawyer remain silent. The moral of the story for the ladies: Even an ugly guy will cheat if he is able, so you might as well go for the stud.

Speaking of studs, Asian heartthrob Takeshi Kaneshiro (金城武) shocked fans by reportedly tying the knot with an unidentified woman three weeks ago. Chinese-language media reported last week that the 32-year-old star had a secret wedding in Japan and that the bride was one-month pregnant. The star remains unresponsive to the media, as usual, and his agent dismissed the gossip as "ridiculous."

In other celebrity news, Hong Kong star Leon Lai (黎明) has bought a mansion adjacent to the houses of his two former lovers Faye Wang (王菲) and Rosamund Kwan (關之琳) in Beijing.

Ironically, the grand gesture is said to have been made in pre-paration for Lai's family: tongues have been wagging about the possibility that Lai's supermodel girlfriend Gaile Lai (樂基兒) is pregnant with his baby. Lai brushed off inquiries from the media by saying, "I will not respond to any news that has nothing to do with me."

Taiwan's transsexual beauty Li Jing (利菁) this week revealed some risque eating habits to promote her upcoming beauty book. Li said she would do anything to maintain her looks and admitted to dining on human placenta to combat the ravages of time.

A household name at the Eas-tern Media Group's Shopping Channel (東森購物), the "Queen of the Shopping Channel" is always eager to share her age-defying recipes. At a promotional event last week, Li shared her unusual beauty regime with members of the press. "The placenta needs to come from a mother who had her first baby by Caesarean section ? and it has to be cooked with the umbilical cord," she is quoted as saying in a Chinese-language daily.

The latest installment in the ongoing Jay Chou (周杰倫) saga emerged this week when His Majesty was reported to have faked an illness to avoid military service. Authorities are investigating whether the king of Mando-pop committed a crime. Chou's record label company wasted no time in quelling the accusation and said Chou takes painkillers for his affliction.

But Jolin Tsai (蔡依林), his former girlfriend, was not so sure when asked for her opinion by the press. Asked if she was privy to information about Chou's illness, the star quipped, "I don't know anything about it because I really don't want to go to court as a witness."
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