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Bra by who?

Ida, Amy, and the bra owner

A social media spat which started with a discarded bra has mushroomed into allegations of a love triangle involving a singer, his actress partner and former love, and threats of legal action.

Actress and DJ Irada “Ida” Siriwut last week published on Instagram a picture of a black bra which she said belonged to a young woman who had helped break up her relationship to singer Chai-amorn “Amy” Kaewwiboonpan. The couple, who have a two year-old daughter, parted ways in September.

Ida posted the picture to an Instagram account owned by “Titysikamahn”, noting that she appeared to have left something behind.

“Here’s your bra. Come and get it if you like. As for my husband who I have forgotten, never mind. You don’t have to return him … ”

Anti-Tity web pages sprouted on social media, with the young woman coming under attack for stealing another woman’s mate.

Tity apologised for causing Ida distress.

“I was together with Amy at the start of the year, it is true, but he told me he and Ida had split up. The bra is not mine, and we didn’t have sex,” she said.

Ida’s elder brother, Jessy “James” Siriwut, chimed in on IG, saying Ida published the picture of the bra only after Titysikamahn and friends baited her on social media.

The fuss failed to abate, however, with Ida’s fans quickly forming themselves into “Team Ida” to shoot down claims by the other side.

The war of words eventually reached Lanna Hiranleka, a friend of Titysikamahn’s, who says the bitter social media exchange harmed her reputation. On Thursday she laid a complaint with Technology Crime Suppression Division police.

Earlier, Lanna’s mother Benya Nandakwang spoke out on Instagram about the “love triangle” involving Amy, Titysikamahn and Ida.

“None of this has anything to do with my family, and yet still we have been dragged into it,” she wrote. “We view the episode as ethically wrong, as the young man involved [Amy] had a child and wife when he started the relationship.”

Mrs Benya said Ida’s friends set up fake Instagram accounts to cause trouble for Amy’s former fling. Her own daughter, as a mere friend of Titysikamahn, was also criticised, even though she was not involved. Her family would ask police to take down the site.

Singer Amy, meanwhile, whose infidelity set off the saga and has apologised to Ida for being careless, is urging his fans not to listen to social media critics.

He posted a picture of him cuddling their daughter Lullabelle, saying: “Don’t go listening to the social magpies. The world has just the two of us.”

Critics rounded on his remarks. “Just the two of us? What a cheek!” one wrote.

“If you want to play around with someone, why care what society thinks? Don’t use your child as a shield … you’re gutless,” she said. -

Lawyers, guns and money

Sek

Rocker Sek Loso is threatening to take legal action against the hospital which treated him for his hard drugs habit almost three years ago, after its deputy director “invaded” his home recently to confiscate his gun.

Sek, who is engaged in a bitter dispute with his former wife, Wiphakorn “Kan” Sukpimai, is fighting back to clear his name after she accused him of assault.

The rocker announced last month he was suing the deputy director of the Thanyarak Institute in Pathum Thani, Angun Pataragorn, after Kan escorted him to the couple’s home to retrieve his weapon. Kan had earlier left their marital home saying she feared for her safety.

Last week Sek widened the list of his targets to say he was also preparing to sue the institute, unless its director tenders an apology for a videotaped incident while he was in its care.

Sek is renewing his complaints about an episode in which Dr Angun filmed him in January 2012 to counter claims he had absconded from the institute.

In a series of videoclips posted on YouTube, Dr Angun insisted Sek was a good patient. The pair denied he had absconded from the institute as alleged.

Sek appears in the clips looking drugged and drowsy. His fans responded saying they did not appreciate seeing the rocker in such a dilapidated state.

The clips landed the institute’s heads in trouble even then, after Sek’s lawyer, Udom Prongfa, told the media they breached the rocker’s privacy, and the then public health minister said he would look into the rocker’s complaints.
Thanyarak’s director Wirot Wirachai also appeared in the clips, which are still online.

Speaking from his home last week, Sek said he had second thoughts about pursuing the matter in 2012, as he knew he was in a bad way.

The institute had exploited his fame to boost its own profile, but he still thought the doctors had done him a good turn. “I have since changed my mind. How many doctors who are behaving ethically would take a patient before the cameras while he is a drugged state and circulate the clip?

“I have to set a standard to show doctors they have no right to do such a thing. If they haven’t apologised in seven days we will start legal action.”

Sek said he managed to contact Dr Angun on Oct 27, to warn of what lay in store if the institute failed to apologise.

“Before he would say, ‘Sek, where are you?’ Now it was, ‘Calm down, calm down,’ ” he said.

Kannayao police, meanwhile, have called in Sek to acknowledge charges that he assaulted Kan. The rocker’s lawyer says he is likely to show up next Sunday. -

I used to be a man

Nong Mob

Transgender student Tithiworada “Nong Mob” Jiktaow says she is trying to carry on life as normal, despite being discovered on social media two weeks ago as she was helping a friend whip up a batch of noodles.

She published a picture on Facebook in which she is helping a friend make noodles in her native Khon Kaen. The picture was shared widely, with the number of her followers on Facebook quickly topping 30,000.

Netizens who circulated her picture were surprised to find that Nong Mob, initially lauded as the nation’s prettiest noodle seller, was in fact a boy at birth who underwent a sex change operation this year.

Among those taken aback by her admission was presenter Kanchai “Noom” Kamnerdploi, who invited her on his television show to talk about her overnight rise to fame — not knowing she was once a male.

“I asked about her love life. Nong Mob replied she had a boyfriend, and most importantly was a transgender. When I heard her I almost fell over,” he said.

In case there was still any doubt, Nong Mob wrote simply on her Facebook site: “I am (was) a man.”

Nong Mob, 22, studies information technology at Northeastern University.

“I was surprised at reaction to the picture, as I posted it in fun,” she said. “I am trying to carry on life as normal, even though many more people know me now. If I get an approach from the entertainment industry, I would like to give it a go,” she told reporters at her home in Muang district.

“My feelings that I wanted to be a woman started when I was in Mattayom 6. Before then I had a feeling deep inside that I wasn’t really a male, though I tried to fit in. I played football after school, but it didn’t make my sense that I was really a woman diminish to any degree.

“As soon as I started university, I decided I must set a course that was right for me. I started dressing as a woman. After that, I did my nose, and chest, then underwent a sex change. The cost came to more than 200,00 baht.

“I am lucky my mother has always understood that her only son was not in fact a man. Mum put up all the money.”

Nong Mob’s mother, Saengduan Kamana, 60, said Nong Mob was her only son and the two are close.

“I have never tried to forbid her changing her sex. I only ask that she is a good person. I feel sorry for her because she lost her father when she was aged just 12 months. These days it’s just the two of us. We sell grocery items and run an internet shop from home,” she said.