Full house, not-so-secret admirer, can't beat love

Mother kicks actor son out of home

Karn

Sai

The mother of a young singing and acting star says she has chased her son and his girlfriend from the family home, days after the pair were embroiled in a fuss over a leaked chat involving actress Nida "Tangmo" Patcharaveerapong.

Ketwarong Hongladaromp said she had turfed her son, Kasidej "Karn" Hongladaromp, 19, and his girlfriend, singer/actress Hathaichanok "Sai" Suansri, 25, from her home as she was tired of their antics.

In a no-holds-barred attack on social media, Mrs Ketwarong said Sai slept over with Karn, liked to leave her used underwear lying about his bedroom, thought nothing of borrowing her own items when she had run out, and had taken to encouraging her son to criticise her.

"I have driven them both from home. I hope they enjoy living together so they can appreciate just what is involved in family life other than sharing a bed," she wrote, posting an image of Sai's underwear, face towels and dirty socks which she said the youngster liked to leave strewn about for her to wash.

"Her bras are scattered all over the room. She goes through those towels as if she is staying at a high-class hotel, and when she is done takes mine. She never bothers to wash them. I can tell you my patience has run out, even if this is the end of our relationship," she wrote. 

"The simplest of things fail to get through to her. She behaves as if the Buddha charm I gave her makes her impervious to criticism.

"She likes to boast about her education, but what kind of upbringing is this? She is great at exposing others' failings, as if she is perfect herself. Don't criticise me in response to my jibes, or you might put at risk the sassy, innocent, pretty-girl image you like to cultivate," Mrs Ketwarong said, referring to Sai.

She added she had taken a trove of such incriminating pictures which she was happy to release to the media and the pair’s singing label KPN label if Sai, who did she did not name in her posts, wanted to draw out the saga.

Karn won the 2015 KPN singing contest, while co-contestant Sai, heir to a Thai likay (musical folk drama) dynasty, was named runner-up. News reports refer flatteringly to Sai's education pedigree, after she graduated from Chulaongkorn University with a bachelor's degree, first class honours. 

Unimpressed, Mrs Ketwarong refers to her as chanee kiartniyom, or the gibbon with honours, citing a disparaging term for women.

Her social media barbs came to light days after Sai and Karn were linked to a leaked social media chat involving actress Tangmo, whom initial reports suggested was seeing Karn on the sly and trying to break up his relationship with the hapless Sai.

Tangmo, who was forced to come forward to clear up the chat saga after Karn chose to stay silent, said many youngsters approach her out the blue for advice, and so it was with Karn, whom she did not know previously.

"He asked me about his relationship [with Sai], but that's as far as it went," she said.

However, Sai misunderstood what was happening and thought Tangmo was trying to break up their relationship. One day she impersonated her absent boyfriend in chat with Tangmo.

The actress, who is almost 10 years older, said she knew immediately Sai was not the real thing, but played along with the act, asking Karn if he was prepared to leave his girlfriend to take up with her.

When she tired of that, she told Sai she knew she was impersonating her boyfriend and she could stop pretending. "I have tried all these tricks in chat myself. Starting from the love heart you sent me, I knew you were not for real. How do you feel, young one … embarrassed?" she asked.

Unsurprisingly, Tangmo's putdown brought the chat to a sudden halt. Tangmo later apologised for the stunt, as she didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

Sai, who earlier admitted the leaked chat was real, said she could no longer say if Karn and she were an item, as the chat saga had strained their relationship.

A day later, she came under further attack when Karn's mother's brazen criticism of her behaviour surfaced on social media.

Sai has yet to respond to Mrs Ketwarong's jibes. Karn, who has stayed largely silent during both dramas, popped up briefly to counter critics of Sai who had taken sides with his mother. "Those of you who know so much about it, carry on talking all you like," he said, sounding wounded.

"So is your mum being too cruel to Sai, or what?" one netizen goaded him in response. -

2. Singer brushes off admirer's advances

Ning

Singer Pattama "Ning" Jitsawat is laughing off an admirer's proposition that he pay her upkeep of 120,000 baht a month in return for sex.

The runner-up in the Master Key singing competition said she did not feel harassed by her admirer, who contacted her on social media five times before seeing she was not interested.

Ning, 23, said the man wrote to her on social media offering to make her a kept woman, if she would agree to his businesslike offer. She released their exchange to the media.

"Please let me get straight to it and speak directly. I would like to support you for 120,000 baht a month. We'd meet five times, three hours at a time, under a six-month contract, with no obligations, and where neither side crosses the line," he wrote. 

Ning, who graduated with a bachelor's degree, second-class honours, early this year, and also runs a novelty balloon shop, replied saying if he wanted to hire her she could turn up to sing. However, she didn't want to take up the offer of paid sex, as she could support herself.

"No, krap, all I want is sex, not singing. So, do you not want the kind of work I am offering?" he asked.

"Sorry, but if I truly love someone, there's no need to part with a single baht, I would return the love," she replied.  

"No, I don't want love, I don't want obligation…"

"But you are I are different. I do want love and to be happy with the things I have. I may not have much, but I would like to be content. Apart from that, some men have offered me much more than you, both a condo and a car in fact, but I still said no," Ning replied.

"You may be used to buying what you like with money, but I don't think you can buy me. Sorry."

Speaking later, she denied the offer left her feeling creepy. "I am used to this kind of thing, as I have been singing since I was a youngster and encounter this kind of thing often," she said. -

3. Actress quiet about boyfriend's antics

Aum

Actress Lakana "Aum" Wattanawongsiri won't comment on the fate of her marriage plans to her socialite boyfriend, accused with three others of assaulting a general's son at a Chiang Mai pub.

Aum, who made a rare appearance before the media last week at the opening of an action movie in which she appears, said she is trying to live in the present rather than think about their plans.

She was still seeing her boyfriend, businessman Krisna "Ball" Amitsoon, contrary to several reports the assault saga had brought the relationship to a close.

The Chiang Mai Provincial Court last December granted bail to Ball after his arrest on assault charges stemming from the Nov 25 incident at the Malin Sky pub, in which student  Issarajnuwat "James Bond" Wankawisan suffered serious injuries including a broken nose and fractured jaw.

Before the saga broke, Aum appeared on social media trying on a wedding dress and a wedding ring from Ball.

"We still see each other occasionally, but are busy with work. We go out openly, although we don't go out in the news media or post much on social media," she said.

More recently, Ball entered the monkhood while he awaits the next stage in his legal drama.

"The case must work its way through the justice system. We are giving each other strength. My family gives me strength, too, because the bottom line is Ball is not the only person in my life," she said.