Taiwanese singer-actor Ken Chu has defended his decision to sell products made by the company of Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei, the former husband of late Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu.<\/p>\n
Chu, 46, was a member of Taiwanese boy band F4, which also comprise Jerry Yan, 48; Vic Chou, 43; and Van Ness Wu, 46. The quartet reunited for a surprise performance at Taiwanese pop-rock band Mayday\u2019s concert at the Taipei Dome on July 12.<\/p>\n
F4 were brought together as a boy band in 2001 after acting in Taiwanese idol drama Meteor Garden (2001), which also starred Hsu. The band members went their separate ways in 2009.<\/p>\n
Hsu, who died aged 48 in February, divorced Wang, 44, in November 2021 after 11 years of marriage. They have an 11-year-old daughter and a nine-year-old son.<\/p>\n
The former couple were then embroiled in a divorce battle and war of words on social media.<\/p>\n
Chu, who is now focusing on live-stream sales on Douyin, was criticised by netizens on July 16 after he continued to hawk hot and sour vermicelli from Chinese food brand Maliuji. This is a company under Wang and his mother Zhang Lan. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy can\u2019t I sell that?\u201d Chu replied. \u201cTo be honest, I really hope Wang Xiaofei makes a lot of money. Otherwise, who will take care of his two children?\u201d<\/p>\n
The artiste also mentioned Hsu, better known as Big S, in his live stream.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was the girl who was involved in the lives of the four of us,\u201d he said, referring to the F4 members. \u201cI think all four of us loved her in our own way when we were younger.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chu also disclosed that he was initially not keen on the F4 reunion on July 12, which was facilitated by Mayday\u2019s agency B\u2019in Music.<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked their manager why they were so persistent on the reunion,\u201d Chu said. \u201cShe relayed (Mayday frontman) Ashin\u2019s words to me: \u2018Ashin feels that all the good things from the days when we were younger are slowly disappearing, and he wants to gather them back together, including F4.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Chu admitted that it was not easy for him to return to the stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not as physically fit as I used to be,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you watch the video, you can see that I look a little older than the three of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chu said that although he is 46, his physical condition is like that of a 60-year-old\u2019s. He suffers from fibromyalgia, a condition that can lead to lasting muscle pain and fatigue.<\/p>\n
\u201cCompared with the three of them, I\u2019ll be more out of shape if we don\u2019t reunite this year or next year,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m working hard on it.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 The Straits Times\/Asia News Network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taiwanese singer-actor Ken Chu has defended his decision to sell products made by the company of Chinese businessman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,6675],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-na"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}