Though bouffant-styled entertainer Zhang Fei (張菲) might be able to teach Taiwan’s “home boys” (zhainan, 宅男) a thing or two about picking up members of the opposite sex, he isn’t the man to turn to for lessons in etiquette.
The “eager old fellow” (色老頭), known for his penchant for sweet young thangs, lived up to his reputation this week when he was caught in a fast food restaurant allegedly trying to pick up some hot young lasses by taking photos together and asking for their contact information, according to a report in the Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper).
Tame stuff, you may think, but what had Netizens in a tizzy was Zhang’s apparent disregard for pedestrians; he had parked his huge road bike in front of the store’s entrance, effectively blocking the way.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
“I was only in there for eight minutes,” he said, when questioned by the press.
The flagrant flouting of social convention didn’t stop there. The variety show host and one-liner king was said to have carelessly flicked a cigarette butt on the ground and left a pile of garbage on the table rather than throwing it in the trash can.
“Look, I didn’t put the garbage in the trash because I didn’t know it was something I was supposed to do,” he said.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
Bikes, butts and trash, a far cry from sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, but nevertheless a trifecta that goes a long way to explaining Fei’s increasingly bad reputation in the vernacular media.
In other “Godfather of television” (大哥大) news, it seems that entertainer Hu Gua (胡瓜) just can’t get a break. Next (壹週刊) magazine reported on Wednesday that Li Jin-liang (李進良), a plastic surgeon and husband to the variety show host’s daughter, was allegedly caught entertaining two friends and three hostesses in separate rooms at a Taipei hotel.
In typical Next fashion, photographs were published showing a chronology of the plot as it unfolded: The arrival of the three young studs at the hostess bar (8pm); driving with the mama-san (媽媽桑) through the streets of Taipei to pick up three females (12:28am); the three men and three women entering a hotel (12:50am); and exiting the hotel (1:48am).
The denouement, however, was Hu Ying-zhen (胡盈禎) driving her husband home at 2:45am.
When asked by members of the press pack what her husband was doing with the hostesses, Hu Ying-zhen coined what could be a new euphemism: “My husband was just engaged in social activities.”
For Li, though, this is old hat. Loyal readers of Pop Stop will recall that while the couple were betrothed, Li was accused by porn star Hinano Miduki (觀月雛乃) of sexually abusing her for two years — this along with a whole string of rumor and innuendo of Li’s sexual escapades.
On a more romantic note, Terry Gou (郭台銘) might have finally found love.
The Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) chairman — considered by some to be Taiwan’s most eligible bachelor because of his large bank balance and debonair deportment — has previously been linked with actress Carina Lau (劉嘉玲) and model Lin Chi-ling (林志玲). The lucky woman this time is a dancer named Delia Tseng (曾馨瑩).
“I don’t get the whiff of money from her,” (我在她身上聞不到錢的味道), Gou said, meaning that she’s not dating him for his thick wads of cash.
It’s nice to see that love isn’t dead.
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