Former Channel V presenter Jason Tang (唐志中) is suffering from premature hair loss and not because of hormonal or genetic reasons. Photographs of the youthful Tang playing basketball earlier this week revealed he's been shaving not only his head, but also his legs and under his arms. Naturally there was intense speculation as to whether Tang's pubic area was also laid bare. Apparently not.
According to local rags the Chinese-American shaved to avoid the dreaded hair-pot test. A urine or blood test can determine if lovers of cannabis sativa have been indulging recently, whereas scientists can detect from a hair sample whether they've been puffing on the wicked weed up to six months ago, as traces of the drug are stored in the hair shaft.
Cops acting on a "tip" (presumably Tang's barber) stopped the glabrous entertainer from leaving the country last week on a visa run. They feared he would be able to claim he had smoked outside the country and thereby beat the test's offside trap, according to speculation in our sister paper the Liberty Times. Investigators plucked a 3cm-long pubic hair, allowed him to leave Taiwan the following day and he returned soon after.
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We should point out that a shaved head was Tang's trademark look long before he was suspected of being a fan of Puff the Magic Dragon. Tang also claims he regularly shaves his armpits and legs. It's not a crime to look like a big baby, otherwise Tang would be guilty as charged, but his drug test result on Wednesday was a surprise. It cleared him of smoking cannabis, but indicated he had taken ketamine and several other "suspicious chemicals." Oh dear, out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Speaking of babes, did you know "bimbo" is originally from the Italian, meaning little child? It is currently used in English to refer to an "empty-headed young woman, or willing sex object" and this perfectly describes Hinano Miduki (觀月雛乃). The Taiwanese/Japanese porn star famous for flashing her private parts has belatedly discovered modesty. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this week she wore a micro-mini skirt that barely covered her butt. Nevertheless, photographers hoping for a peek at the family jewels were disappointed, as she was wearing two sets of underwear.
"I was clever today and wore my safety knickers," the temptress told Apple Daily. Asked whether she was dating a mystery man dubbed "the Porsche-driving Eric," Miduki answered no, she would never take someone else's boyfriend. This begged the question whether Eric had a girlfriend. Hiduki responded she had indeed received a nasty phone message from a woman claiming to be Eric's girlfriend, warning her to stay away. In yet another euphemism for sex that now enters the annals of gossip, Hiduki said she was not dating Eric, she was just getting "close, personal advice on buying a house."
Pop Stop has previously reported on Hiduki for accusing the fiance of entertainer Hu Gua's (胡瓜) daughter, of sexually abusing her for two years — though she was spotted holding hands with her alleged molester. She's also boasted of using a device containing Chinese herbs that tightens the vagina.
Meanwhile, Hu Gua's girlfriend, Ding Ro-an (丁柔安), who has been through the wringer of late, is back on the public relations treadmill. The pair were tested and found to have been using marijuana (despite their protestations of innocence) and will be sent to a drying-out clinic. She told Apple she was like a "dirty cloth that is washed and as long as it is washed again and again and wrung, eventually it will be clean."
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