A former politician who became infamous after a friend secretly taped her trysts with several men and leaked a sex video CD to a magazine, has been hired by a Macau TV station as its news anchor, a local cable television station reported yesterday.
Chu Mei-feng (璩美鳳), 40, was to start broadcasting evening news on Macau Asian Satellite TV (MASTV) yesterday, cable TV channel ETTV reported.
MASTV has reportedly signed Chu for an annual fee of HK$3 million (US$360,000), ETTV said.
A former TV journalist and Taipei City councilor with the New Party, Chu unwillingly became the star of a video in 2001 when a friend secretly installed a video camera in her bedroom to tape her trysts with married men.
Her friend handed the footage to the Scoop weekly magazine, leading to Chu's political downfall as the VCD quickly circulated throughout Southeast Asia.
Chu capitalized on the publicity by writing her biography, Confessions of Chu Mei-feng, and later moved to London.
Chu said the incident taught her that one should never give up.
"I want to tell everyone: Even if you are down and trodden and feel there is no way out, you should not give up. Because one moment you see only darkness, the next minute you may see stars in the sky. This is my experience," she said in a TV interview in January.
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