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According to one gossip magazine, those in the know contact A-list actress Aum Patcharapa. Gossip Star says she acts as an agent for hi-so types, politicians and businessmen looking for a fun night out.
The magazine quoted actress ''Pei' Panward Hemmanee as saying that Aum's manager called her, inviting her to dinner with a politician.
Pei was furious when the article appeared, saying she did not mention Aum by name, or her manager. The journalist put words in her mouth, she says.
However, she confirmed that the call sounding her out did take place.
''It all happened a long time ago - I can barely remember the details,'' says Pei. ''The journalist asked me if it was Aum, or her manager.
''I said no...I wasn't sure. But the headline said that I confirmed it was them. They are both upset, as the story was damaging.''
Rather than calling Pei directly, Aum's manager called her bosses at Exact Entertainment, who called her with a Please Explain. Ouch!
Aum herself is not saying whether she works as a hi-so madam on the side, which is curious. She seems more upset about how the news slipped out rather than the claims themselves.
Pei, who comes from the South, denies meeting Aum's manager, or dining with any politician. She has asked the magazine for an apology.
A day or so after the Pei claims surfaced, Sor 7, a newspaper gossip columnist whose claims are so outrageous that she has to identify people by made-up names, told a similar tale.
Sor 7 says an actress with a bulging forehead had opened a lucrative sideline sounding out celebrities who had passed the 'camera test' about whether they would like to be the ''mia noi'' for politicians and businessmen.
It claims that the actress herself once travelled to Hong Kong to dine with a politician, who paid B700,000 for the privilege of looking at her dangling breasts. To get a look at anything lower down, he would have to pay millions of baht.
Sor 7, who writes for the Manager newspaper, said Ms Bulging Forehead decided to offer herself as a hi-so madam after realising that middle-aged men would spend well for a grope here, a feel there.
The columnist says her manager persuaded a southern actress called Nang Rai Barbie to meet an unnamed cabinet member. After initially declining, she 'hauled' her fake breasts around to see him. He squeezed her breasts so hard, her silicone almost burst.
But Ms Bulging Forehead's flourishing enterprise was to come to grief. Her younger boyfriend discovered that one of her clients was a friend of his father's. That was too close to home, so he dumped her.
A coincidence of timing? A day before, reports surfaced that actor Todd Sina had dumped Aum, after tiring of her infatuation with a male admirer, a socialite called Note.
The gossip press says they broke up after an argument in the carpark of a Bangkok nightspot, where Aum went to celebrate the birthday of a friend.
Aum's manager says that is not possible, as Aum does not get into arguments in carparks.
Aum says that Note was there, though she did not talk to him, but no argument occurred, as Todd was not present.
The media was unperturbed. How could an actress of Aum's beauty and fame be dumped by a younger man with lesser star status?
Aged in his mid-20s, Note studies in England and comes from a wealthy family which owns an electrical business.
He is the latest in a long line of young men with whom Aum has been linked in the gossip press. Her four-year mainstay is Todd. But there was also Bank, and another guy called Bank before him...
While lacking Todd's good looks, Note was attentive, in a lapdog kind of way: he would pick her up and take her places. When Aum went shopping with Todd, Note would carry her bags.
Aum's manager denies that his A-list client has broken up with Todd. She has never said they are an item - so how could they break up?' he says disingenuously.
Aum says her relationship with Todd has not changed; they are as close as they ever were. However, she has said nothing about whether she acts as a talent scout. Busy Aum is making two soap operas at once, working a seven-day week, the poor thing, so perhaps we'll just have to wait.
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Claims that actress Aum Patcharapa does not get into fights in carparks will come as news to variety show presenter 'Khem Tee Sip', after Aum and an actress friend confronted her in a department store carpark late last year.
Aum and her friend, May Feuangarom, lay in wait in the Emporium carpark after May found a Mini Cooper car there which she knew belonged to her.
May didn't know it at the time, but the man who bought the car in her name, boyfriend ''Noom'' Kanchai, had lent the car to his former girlfriend, Khem, who parked it there while she went shopping.
May and actor Noom, a notorious romeo, were not talking at the time when he lent the car to Khem.
When he went back to seeing May, he 'forgot' to tell her it was still at Khem's place, and 'forgot' to tell Khem that the car belonged to May.
When Khem returned to the car, the actress friends demanded she hand it over. Khem was injured in the scuffle as the younger pair tried to force open the door and pull her out.
She managed to speed away. Before she did, a panicky Khem called a woman friend for help. She spoke to her in English as she suspected Aum and May would not get it.
Khem went on television to talk about her ordeal. To listen to her tearful account, she feared for her life.
Many viewers suspected Khem was putting it on – and doubted her English was that good, or that of the younger actress pair was that bad.
However, in the aftermath of the carpark fight, Aum lost advertising work worth millions of baht.
''Who wants a fighter as a presenter?'' Aum said of her own actions. At functions since, Aum and May have taken the mickey out of Khem the English Master for presuming to talk over their heads.
''I can communicate with foreigners,'' says Aum indignantly, who also enjoys the company of kathoey.
One celebrity kathoey friend coined the nickname ''Miss Clear'' (Miss Fix-it) for Aum. It was intended as a compliment, but only reinforced impressions of Aum as a trouble-maker.
Aum, she says, is a loyal type who volunteers to fix her kathoey friends' relationship problems - by having a quiet word to the men who cause them grief.
Aum denied that she and May had conspired to confront Khem. ''If we had staged it, we would have called the media or the police. The images I took on my cellphone in the carpark - they rock this way and that because I was eating sausages on a stick at the time,'' she says.
Miss Clear becomes Miss Innocent? Unlikely. Asked whether she argues often with her boyfriend, actor Todd Sina, Miss Clear says she argues with everyone. Now, that's more like it. -
Actress Peuy Panward Hemmanee is worried that the craze among teens for
watching leaked videoclips of stars will catch up with her. A
fortune-teller has warned her and a bevy of other stars to beware of
leaked clips, which he reckons will come to light at the end of the
year.
''When I stay in hotels in the provinces I take precautions. These days I ask my elder sister to take a shower with me - so if they film us on the sly, they'll get us both!''
Two for the price of one? How inviting. However, Peuy is a cautious one: ''She has also offered to find me a device which detects the signal of hidden cameras, if someone is using one close by. I am excited. I will get it in the next week.''
So, any takers for a video of two women in a shower, holding an electrical gizmo which tells them if they are being filmed? -
Actress Grace Karnkao is fed up with those rumours that she takes skin-whitening injections - and her Mum is threatening to sue the next
gossip rag which makes the claim.
Most Thai starlets would love to have skin as pale as the Miss Teen Thailand 2004 winner, but Grace is having none of it.
She says she takes the normal precautions to protect her skin, such as staying out of the sun. However, she does nothing out of the ordinary, such as taking injections. Her skin is naturally pale, as she comes from Chinese stock.
''People ask me what I take to make my skin so pale. I am getting sick of it. It's actually a curse to look so pale...the make-up artist has to apply mak
Claims that actress Aum Patcharapa does not get into fights in carparks will come as news to variety show presenter 'Khem Tee Sip', after Aum and an actress friend confronted her in a department store carpark late last year.
Aum and her friend, May Feuangarom, lay in wait in the Emporium carpark after May found a Mini Cooper car there which she knew belonged to her.
May didn't know it at the time, but the man who bought the car in her name, boyfriend ''Noom'' Kanchai, had lent the car to his former girlfriend, Khem, who parked it there while she went shopping.
May and actor Noom, a notorious romeo, were not talking at the time when he lent the car to Khem.
When he went back to seeing May, he 'forgot' to tell her it was still at Khem's place, and 'forgot' to tell Khem that the car belonged to May.
When Khem returned to the car, the actress friends demanded she hand it over. Khem was injured in the scuffle as the younger pair tried to force open the door and pull her out.
She managed to speed away. Before she did, a panicky Khem called a woman friend for help. She spoke to her in English as she suspected Aum and May would not get it.
Khem went on television to talk about her ordeal. To listen to her tearful account, she feared for her life.
Many viewers suspected Khem was putting it on – and doubted her English was that good, or that of the younger actress pair was that bad.
However, in the aftermath of the carpark fight, Aum lost advertising work worth millions of baht.
''Who wants a fighter as a presenter?'' Aum said of her own actions. At functions since, Aum and May have taken the mickey out of Khem the English Master for presuming to talk over their heads.
''I can communicate with foreigners,'' says Aum indignantly, who also enjoys the company of kathoey.
One celebrity kathoey friend coined the nickname ''Miss Clear'' (Miss Fix-it) for Aum. It was intended as a compliment, but only reinforced impressions of Aum as a trouble-maker.
Aum, she says, is a loyal type who volunteers to fix her kathoey friends' relationship problems - by having a quiet word to the men who cause them grief.
Aum denied that she and May had conspired to confront Khem. ''If we had staged it, we would have called the media or the police. The images I took on my cellphone in the carpark - they rock this way and that because I was eating sausages on a stick at the time,'' she says.
Miss Clear becomes Miss Innocent? Unlikely. Asked whether she argues often with her boyfriend, actor Todd Sina, Miss Clear says she argues with everyone. Now, that's more like it. -
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| Peuy |
''When I stay in hotels in the provinces I take precautions. These days I ask my elder sister to take a shower with me - so if they film us on the sly, they'll get us both!''
Two for the price of one? How inviting. However, Peuy is a cautious one: ''She has also offered to find me a device which detects the signal of hidden cameras, if someone is using one close by. I am excited. I will get it in the next week.''
So, any takers for a video of two women in a shower, holding an electrical gizmo which tells them if they are being filmed? -
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| Grace |
Most Thai starlets would love to have skin as pale as the Miss Teen Thailand 2004 winner, but Grace is having none of it.
She says she takes the normal precautions to protect her skin, such as staying out of the sun. However, she does nothing out of the ordinary, such as taking injections. Her skin is naturally pale, as she comes from Chinese stock.
''People ask me what I take to make my skin so pale. I am getting sick of it. It's actually a curse to look so pale...the make-up artist has to apply mak
e-up to my neck, not just my face.''
Her mother says one gossip rag claimed in a cover splash that her daughter was taking drugs. The item carried on inside to say that the drugs' were actually skin-whitening injections. The claim was false, and harmed her 19 year-old daughter's reputation.
''She is a good girl, studies hard, does not take drugs, and has worked hard since her mid-teens,'' she says.
Yet to listen to Mum, her daughter almost appears fixated with keeping her skin pale.
She has used skin cream since she was 14 – loads of it, says Mum.
At school, she wears only long-sleeved shirts. On the set of soap operas, the same.
She gets Mum and Dad to drive her up to shady parts of the set, so she is not exposed to sun. Just how much further can you go?
Her mother says one gossip rag claimed in a cover splash that her daughter was taking drugs. The item carried on inside to say that the drugs' were actually skin-whitening injections. The claim was false, and harmed her 19 year-old daughter's reputation.
''She is a good girl, studies hard, does not take drugs, and has worked hard since her mid-teens,'' she says.
Yet to listen to Mum, her daughter almost appears fixated with keeping her skin pale.
She has used skin cream since she was 14 – loads of it, says Mum.
At school, she wears only long-sleeved shirts. On the set of soap operas, the same.
She gets Mum and Dad to drive her up to shady parts of the set, so she is not exposed to sun. Just how much further can you go?
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