Edson Chen apologizes for leaked sex photos.
Hong Kong actor and singer Edson Chen, whose career fell apart after sexually explicit photos of him and several actresses appeared online, was in court this week testifying in the case of a computer technician who had illegally posted those photos. Chen, who was one of the most famous celebrities in Hong Kong before the scandal erupted and forced him into self-imposed exile in his birth country of Canada, took the opportunity to express regret for shooting the photos. This prompted Cecilia Cheung, the actress who co-starred with Chen in many of the images, to angrily lash out at her former lover in a televised interview on Hong Kong’s iCable, where she said yesterday, “He has never apologized to us personally. He should at least have called us to say sorry if he genuinely admitted his mistake. The photos are still circulating online. How can we live a healthy and happy life? How can we put ourselves back on our feet?”
While it’s easy to understand couples that aren’t famous taking nude photos, both Chen and Cheung were already public figures when they shot the x-rated pix. Which begs the question what were they thinking? We suspect Chen thought that, as a man, no real harm could come to him if the photos ever leaked. It didn’t do Colin Farrell any harm, right? And perhaps that would have been sound reasoning in another country, but in ultraconservative Hong Kong, the damage was considerable. As for Cheung, she just should have known better. It isn’t as if, with her distinctive tattoos, she could deny being the person in the photos. Frankly, we think the shots are spectacular—actually, most of them are way too spectacular to post, so the most we can do is share a couple. But let'sjust say that nothing is more pulp than illicit smut, and from that perspective these two more than delivered the goods. We’d show you more images, but alas, we aren't a smut site, so you’ll just have to use your imagination—or, perhaps, certain internet search engines. Just remember to go into your preferences panel first and turn off the anti-porn filter.
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