Kao Kuo-hua (高國華), the owner of one of the
country’s largest cram school chains, set gossip rags afire when he was snapped giving some decidedly unscholarly attention to one of his teachers.
Photographed sharing a very slimy open-mouthed kiss with his paramour Chen Tzu-hsuan (陳子璇), Kao went on the warpath this week when his estranged wife, former newscaster Tsai Yu-hsuan (蔡郁璇), accused Chen of wrecking their marriage.
Kao enlisted the help of Apple Daily and the newspaper’s (in)famous animation department to make his soon-to-be ex literally look like a fire-spewing dragon lady. The Apple Daily reported that during a meeting at a lawyer’s office, Kao brought along his elderly mother, two grown children from his first marriage and his first wife. When Tsai arrived with her parents in tow, she allegedly freaked out.
“Who asked you to come?” she screamed at Kao’s children. At that point, according to the animation, flames burst forth from Tsai’s mouth and erupted from her eyebrows as she bellowed, “Already splitting up your inheritance?”
“I’m not dead yet!” Kao said.
“If she hadn’t have said that, I would have run out to the street and gotten myself hit by a car,” he told a reporter, adding that since Tsai had broken up his first marriage, she had no business calling the kettle black by accusing Chen of being a home-wrecker.
Chen was just a good friend before the marriage broke down, Kao said. He added that his eight year union to Tsai had been mostly a “financial agreement,” with Kao handing her a NT$200,000 allowance every month and paying her credit card bills.
Tsai called a news conference to respond to Kao’s allegations, but canceled at the last minute.
“It’s gotten too messy, so I don’t want to have a press conference. I don’t want our marital issues to be fought out in public,” she explained to Apple Daily before breaking down over her husband’s statements: “These are all false accusations. Why is he willing to make me look so bad just for someone else’s sake?”
In response, Kao said, seemingly without a trace of irony, “Everyone thinks she’s so honorable just because she didn’t talk today and they are all sympathetic, but as soon as she talks, she’ll tell the whole world every single bad thing that’s happened in our family.”
The only person Kao had anything nice to say about was his tongue-wrestling partner, who has been laying low since the scandal broke. “Teacher Chen’s plight is really pitiable,” Kao sighed, his voice thick
with emotion.
While the break up of Kao and Tsai’s marriage is sad indeed, Rainie Yang (楊丞琳) had bigger things to worry about this week: uneven breasts.
The difference between Yang’s fraternal twins is harder to spot now that she’s gained 5kg.
She wailed on her blog: “49.2[kg], that’s my weight, if you want to be a female performer, you should never see that number!” But there is one good thing about being plumper — Yang’s breasts are now the same size, noted the Liberty Times.
Currently filming TV series Sunshine Angel (陽光天使), Yang confessed that she had once topped the scales at 52kg. After half a year of dieting she managed to wrestle her weight down to 40kg, but it came at the cost of her rack.
“Every woman has uneven breasts,” Yang mused philosophically. “It’s obvious when you are skinnier. Left side is bigger, right side is flatter.” Yang also let fans know about her other imperfection — pimples. Once, a particularly bad bout of acne became so painful that she was reduced to rolling around on the floor at home.
“It hurt so much that I thought
I was going into childbirth!”
Yang said.
Yang blamed her most recent weight gain on her friend and co-star Wu Chun (吳尊). “Wherever he is, there is food. He always brings three, four bags of snacks with him,” wrote Yang, who once accused the heartthrob of being prettier than her. The two visited a teppanyaki restaurant together, where Yang said she made Wu envious by proving she could gobble up more food than him in a single sitting.
“I bet he was jealously thinking ‘damn fat pig!’” Yang gloated.
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