'Spy' at top secret wedding not sorry
By Zhang Xuanchen |
March 26, 2011, Saturday
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A GUEST who posted pictures of a Chinese celebrity couple's "top secret" wedding on his website is refusing to apologize.
The couple, mainland restaurant tycoon Wang Xiaofei and Taiwan actress Barbie Hsu, demanded an apology from Charles Zhang, president of Sohu.com, after their lavish ceremony was shared with the online community.
But Zhang, in a statement on his blog yesterday, said he and other guests had "silent consent" to post photographs on their microblogs.
"I posted to my microblog followers just for fun. It is no big deal. I did nothing wrong, whether in terms of law or friendship," said Zhang, who had been invited as Wang's friend.
He said he stopped posting after a request not to do so some time into the banquet. But he didn't delete what was already online.
The couple are considering taking legal action over the "infringement of their privacy and reputation," China Times reported yesterday.
"We didn't want anyone, apart from our guests, to see our wedding. He even dared to call it 'exclusive,'" said Wang. "Our friendship is over."
Wang, heir to the South Beauty restaurant chain, said Zhang had brought a co-worker with him to take photographs of the reception in the Conrad Hotel in Sanya City's Haitang Bay.
"I felt really unhappy. We will check our guestlist to see whether anyone else had sneaked into our wedding on purpose," Hsu said.
Wang, 30, and Hsu, 34, are paparazzi favorites because of their previous relationships, mostly with entertainment stars. Their sudden decision to marry put gossip columns into overdrive in January.
Before the reception, the couple told the media they wanted to keep their "perfect moment" simple and low-key.
The Conrad Hotel was fenced off and guards were employed to prevent anyone who was not a guest from attending the ceremony.
All journalists were barred, but they got what they needed when pictures of the couple's happy day began to appear on Zhang's Sohu microblog, which updated every minute on average.
The photos led some journalists to complain about Wang giving his friend an exclusive scoop. Some Taiwan newspapers even threatened to impose a news blackout on Hsu, yesterday's Beijing Morning Post reported.
The couple, mainland restaurant tycoon Wang Xiaofei and Taiwan actress Barbie Hsu, demanded an apology from Charles Zhang, president of Sohu.com, after their lavish ceremony was shared with the online community.
But Zhang, in a statement on his blog yesterday, said he and other guests had "silent consent" to post photographs on their microblogs.
"I posted to my microblog followers just for fun. It is no big deal. I did nothing wrong, whether in terms of law or friendship," said Zhang, who had been invited as Wang's friend.
He said he stopped posting after a request not to do so some time into the banquet. But he didn't delete what was already online.
The couple are considering taking legal action over the "infringement of their privacy and reputation," China Times reported yesterday.
"We didn't want anyone, apart from our guests, to see our wedding. He even dared to call it 'exclusive,'" said Wang. "Our friendship is over."
Wang, heir to the South Beauty restaurant chain, said Zhang had brought a co-worker with him to take photographs of the reception in the Conrad Hotel in Sanya City's Haitang Bay.
"I felt really unhappy. We will check our guestlist to see whether anyone else had sneaked into our wedding on purpose," Hsu said.
Wang, 30, and Hsu, 34, are paparazzi favorites because of their previous relationships, mostly with entertainment stars. Their sudden decision to marry put gossip columns into overdrive in January.
Before the reception, the couple told the media they wanted to keep their "perfect moment" simple and low-key.
The Conrad Hotel was fenced off and guards were employed to prevent anyone who was not a guest from attending the ceremony.
All journalists were barred, but they got what they needed when pictures of the couple's happy day began to appear on Zhang's Sohu microblog, which updated every minute on average.
The photos led some journalists to complain about Wang giving his friend an exclusive scoop. Some Taiwan newspapers even threatened to impose a news blackout on Hsu, yesterday's Beijing Morning Post reported.
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