HONG KONG – Veteran Cantopop star Alan Tam, 71, has denied an allegation from a Weibo consumer that he had an affair with the person’s 23-year-old girlfriend.
The accusation first surfaced on Tuesday (Nov 23) on the Chinese language social media platform from an account referred to as Unhappy Beef Noodles.
In an extended diatribe, the person claimed to have found the affair when he accessed his girlfriend’s telephone to purchase some gadgets for her from her procuring cart.
He discovered that his girlfriend, who’s a fan of Tam’s, had a secret folder of pictures and had lied to him about going to Shanghai to buy with a pal. He tagged Tam, who’s often known as Ah Lun or Principal Tam, within the now-deleted put up.
Tam’s administration company, Affect Leisure, issued an announcement on Weibo on Wednesday evening refuting the allegations.
“As is well-known, Mr Tam has liked his work passionately for the previous a long time, supported the youthful generations, contributed to his nation and to society, and revered his followers,” stated the assertion, which was additionally shared by Tam on Weibo.
“As somebody who sits on the Hong Kong Election Committee, he won’t ignore actions that injury his status and can take applicable authorized motion.”
Unhappy Beef Noodles fired again one other salvo, this time importing two pictures. One confirmed the again view of a person sitting on the sting of a mattress, both taking off or placing on his trousers, whereas the opposite was a screenshot of voice messages allegedly from Tam to his girlfriend.
“In case you dare to make one other assertion, I’ll proceed to assault,” he wrote, including that he would pursue the matter to the tip.
The pictures had been later deleted, however eagle-eyed netizens seen that the person within the photograph had related black sneakers to these worn by Tam previously and the resort seemed to be the identical one he had been quarantined in.
Tam, a mega star within the area within the Eighties with 115 solo albums beneath his belt, has been lively in China in recent times.
He’s nonetheless legally married to his spouse, Ms Sally Yeung, though they’ve led separate lives since his affair along with his present accomplice, Ms Wendy Chu, whom he married in 1991 and has a son with.