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Saturday 7 March 2015

Sek's retreat, Russian gets boot, Poj slams critics

Sek
Rocker "Sek Loso" has backed away from the latest fight with his estranged wife, after his eldest son attacked him online.

Sek, who has filed for divorce from Wiphakorn "Kan" Sukpimai, last week criticised her father, Pol Maj Gen Pricha Saengsaitim on social media.

He said if he wasn’t willing to tell his
daughter to shut her mouth, he would arrange it personally.

His message, riddled with expletives, was so strong that most media outlets ran heavily censored versions. "Call me and clear up this matter," Sek wrote to his father-in-law.

"Don’t be gutless. And as for those of you who aren’t involved, butt out!" Sek wrote, offering his phone number.

Kan left the family home with their three children in October amid claims, later confirmed by Sek, that he had beaten her.
Tiger, Kan
They have since taken their marital dispute to court, where Kan, who was forced to stay in a hotel, has asked Sek to provide 900,000 baht a month in maintenance. 

Sek refuses, saying she is asking for too much.

After a quiet patch, the pair’s marital row flared back to life last week when Sek accused Kan’s father of breaking up his family, and trying to live off his kids.

"Even if your mother and father die a horrible death, I’d leave them to be eaten by the worms, as I don’t care about you," Sek wrote. 

"I want my three kids, but not my former wife, who is evil."
His message was timed to coincide with Pol Maj Gen Pricha’s birthday.

Sek was soon forced to beat a hasty retreat, however, after his eldest son, Tiger, defended his grandfather online.

Tiger criticised Sek, prompting warnings from netizens, who said saying unkind words about his father was a sin.

"So him criticising my grandfather is not a sin?" Tiger responded.

Sek bantered mainly in good natured, rapper-style English with his teenage son, who has studied abroad.

"Shut up and go to bed. You have to go to school tomorrow," Sek wrote.

"Nah, I ain’t shutting up," Tiger replied.

Sek withdrew shortly after, saying he was going to bed as he had work to do in the morning.

He published a picture of Tiger sitting on a cannon with the message, "Remember this, kids. I love you most of all in this world. You are the most important thing for me."

Kan also waded in, after earlier criticising netizens who took Sek’s side.

"My family loves my father dearly, as he is a good man. Sek, the poison one, wants to give him a heart attack. My daughter Kwan urged me not to tell him what Sek was saying, as he doesn’t bother with Facebook. But Sua [Tiger] could put up his father’s comments no longer, and had to respond.

"I feel sorry for my family that the evil one wants to destroy our happiness," she wrote, saying she and her children now intended to drop Sek’s surname and take up her family name instead.-

2.
App
Singer and model Starsha "App" Dansithitechodom is breathing a sigh of relief after her former Russian boyfriend, whom she had accused of assault, was booted out of the country.

App said she can now sleep easily after the Immigration Department arranged the departure of her ex-boyfriend, model Ivan Lomakin, allegedly on a blacklist.

"He was a dangerous person. He was into drugs and violence," she said.

App complained to Phra Khanong police last June that Mr Lomakin had struck her with a dumbbell and tried to force 40 sleeping pills down her throat.

She laid another complaint with Thong Lor police last month, accusing Mr Lomakin and a Thai woman friend of threatening her on social media.

App, also an event organiser, said she regretted helping Mr Lomakin enter the industry. He returned the favour by allegedly attacking her half a dozen times, including striking her with the dumbbell, and dangling her from the balcony of their 15th-floor condo.

Through his lawyer, Mr Lomakin denied assaulting App. He said the episode with the dumbbell stemmed from a "misunderstanding", as the two had just argued.

Mr Lomakin was also in trouble for overstaying, after his visa expired on Feb 14. He had appealed to App to return his passport, apparently without success.

Updating reporters last week, App said Mr Lomakin had now been thrown out of the country.

"As he is on a blacklist, he won’t be allowed back," she said.

App thanked assistant police chief and police spokesman Pol Gen Prawut Thawornsiri for expediting the case. If it weren’t for him, she would still fear for her safety.

"While he was here, I had to take precautions. I would take different routes home, and never turn up at the same time twice. He would threaten to send his friends around to attack me," she said.

Police were still pursuing a complaint against the Thai woman he had befriended and who had attacked her online.

"She has spread mischievous lies about me, claiming I am involved in dark business," she said, adding the woman might be hard to find, as she changed her name often.
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3.
Poj
Director Poj Anon, tiring of a decade of taunts that he makes low-quality films, is taking legal action against a netizen who criticised his latest effort, a ghost-comedy set in tsunami-ravaged Phuket.

Poj, who laid a defamation complaint last week with Technology Crime Suppression Division police, said he has put up with Thais criticising his movies for 10 years.

"A netizen has weighed into my latest effort, even though it hasn’t hit the cinemas yet," he complained. "He claimed rudely that I have no skills, I make low-budget movies, and trick people into watching them," he grumbled.

Poj’s latest ghost-comedy, Mor 6/5 Pak Ma Ta Pee 3, for Phranakorn Film, follows the exploits of a group of secondary school students who manage to dodge the tsunami in Phuket, but are haunted by the ghosts of 1,000 victims in a deserted hotel.

The director, best known for his ghost comedies and kathoey movies (Cheerleader Queens, Spicy Beauty Queen of Bangkok, Hortaewtak), said he hoped his police complaint would set an example.

"I don’t want anyone in the industry to be scared of keyboard warriors again," he said. 

His lawyer had advised him to seek civil and criminal damages. If anyone else wants to attack his work without good cause, he said he would take legal action immediately, and refuse to settle out of court.

"Police are able to distinguish between people who criticise mindlessly and those who offer some substance to their views," he said, denying his complaint was an attempt to drum up publicity.

The movie has opened in cinemas since Poj laid his complaint. At the Pantip webboard, one fan enthused that his latest effort has more ghosts and more laughs than his previous instalment in the Pak Ma series. Another said he was too scared to offer an opinion, as he might get sued.

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