Actress-singer-model Jane Wang (王靜瑩) and ex Chen Wei-tao (陳威陶) have been divorced for two months, but the former couple is still close enough to share bodily fluids. And by bodily fluids, Pop Stop means Wang’s vomit.
Wang was spotted by an Apple Daily spy hurling out the side door of a white SUV stopped near a gas station on Fuxing South Road (復興南路). The driver, a man in a black shirt, waved off a concerned police officer, explaining that his female companion was just drunk.
When the Apple Daily called Chen to confirm that he was the man in black with Wang, Chen said, “Yes! Who else would rescue her?” He added that he brought his former wife back to his place to sleep it off, but nothing scandalous occurred and she had left by the time he woke up in the morning.
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Wang, on the other hand, denied she was Puke-ahontas until told her ex-husband had confirmed his part in the incident. “He’s making it up!” Wang snapped.
Wang’s agent later called the Apple Daily to say that Wang’s initial denial was because she wanted to avoid rumors of a rekindled romance with Chen. Wang herself got back on the phone to explain that she’d gotten tipsy at a party and telephoned Chen to send over his chauffeur. She was surprised when her ex showed up instead. “I was afraid his current girlfriend would be upset,” Wang said.
Wang wondered aloud if Chen was the Apple Daily’s real source for the story, voicing her suspicion that her ex was trying to influence the outcome of a property dispute between the two.
Even though the incident was more bilious than romantic in flavor, the Apple Daily still wondered if it might signal a reunion. Chen was awarded custody of the couple’s young son, “Little Shrimp” (小蝦米), but Wang retains liberal visitation rights. The two were spotted taking their child out for a family dinner a few nights before the vomiting incident.
Wang waxed philosophical about a possible reunion with Chen in response to the Apple Daily’s questioning:
“If he’s not the same as he used to be and my personality has changed ... but the problem is that it’s not easy to change your personality and there has be feeling between two people.”
Chen was more blunt when asked the same question: “That’s impossible.”
Meanwhile, gossip rags continue to be obsessed with Jolin Tsai’s (蔡依林) possible new relationship with hunky New Zealand-Singaporean male model Vivian Dawson (錦榮). Readers of Pop Stop will remember that rumors began flying when the two were spotted strolling together in Tokyo.
Tsai has denied that Dawson is her new ding-a-ling, but Next Magazine reported that the two have been in a secret relationship for two months. A reporter caught Dawson leaving a supposed tryst with Tsai. Dawson smiled and didn’t offer a denial when asked if they’d spent the night “discussing their relationship,” which was proof enough for Next Magazine.
What about Jay Chou (周杰倫), the other half of the erstwhile “Double Js” (雙J)? Chou and Tsai broke up half a decade ago, but rumors of a reunion have followed them ever since. The two fanned the flames last June when they appeared together at one of Chou’s concerts, sending audience members into a screaming, chanting frenzy.
Next Magazine reported that Chou recently declared the two would never reunite “in this lifetime.” When asked how he felt that Tsai had changed her tastes to “Western food” (the rag’s way of referring to the mixed-race Dawson), Chou said, “It’s fine, exported things aren’t bad.” He also downplayed reports of a contretemps with Dawson. “I’m happy, from now on the media will be writing about him instead of bothering me,” Chou said.
Chou claimed ignorance when a reporter brought up rumors that he’d try to woo Tsai back with gifts for her 30th birthday. “I’ve been too busy, I’ve had no time to choose presents. You can’t just give an expensive gift. There has to be feeling,” he said, before adding (perhaps in a reference to an outing the two shared just before Tsai’s appearance at his concert), “I might as well give her a bowling ball, she loves bowling so much.”
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