TAIPEI, Oct 20 \u2014 It looks like Jay Chou\u2019s friendship with magician Will Tsai may have gone poof!<\/p>\n
The Taiwanese Mandopop king dropped a cryptic post on Instagram Stories on October 15, sparking chatter that he\u2019s fallen out with his long-time pal, Taiwanese-Canadian illusionist Will Tsai.<\/p>\n
Chou, who wrapped up his Carnival World Tour in Shanghai just days earlier, shared a photo of Tsai with three question marks and wrote in Chinese: \u201cHas anyone seen this magician Will Tsai, who made himself disappear? Let me know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t stop there. In the same Story, Chou added, \u201cThis guy has been missing for a while, feeding me excuses which I actually bought, so that he could finish his performance. Do you think I am not a magician? If you don\u2019t show up, you\u2019re done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ouch.<\/p>\n
Not long after, Tsai \u2014 best known for his America\u2019s Got Talent stint back in 2017 \u2014 responded on his own Instagram Story, saying in English: \u201cSorry will stay off social for another bit. Expect temp void of response.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chou, 46, has since unfollowed Tsai, 41, on Instagram, which for fans is pretty much the celebrity equivalent of slamming the door shut.<\/p>\n
The two weren\u2019t just casual friends either. Tsai was a regular on Chou\u2019s variety travel show J-Style Trip (2020\u20132025), and the duo even wowed audiences with a song-and-magic combo at China\u2019s Spring Festival Gala in 2018.<\/p>\n
But according to Taiwan\u2019s The\u00a0Mirror, the sudden chill might have a less-than-magical explanation \u2014 a money dispute reportedly involving over NT$100 million (RM13.7 million).<\/p>\n
Sources told the outlet that Chou had been trying to reach Tsai for months to settle the issue, which allegedly caused losses to third parties and even led to Chou\u2019s company, JVR Music, receiving legal demands.<\/p>\n
JVR Music, which Chou co-founded, declined to comment on the report.<\/p>\n
Fans, meanwhile, are still reeling from the revelation, wondering if one of Mandopop\u2019s most surprising duos has really reached the final act.<\/p>\n
After all, it seems even magic can\u2019t make this friendship reappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAIPEI, Oct 20 \u2014 It looks like Jay Chou\u2019s friendship with magician Will Tsai may have gone poof!…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[67529,67528,430,67531,156,67530,67527,67532,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-89534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-americas-got-talent-2017","tag-carnival-world-tour-shanghai","tag-celebrities","tag-china-spring-festival-gala-2018","tag-entertainment","tag-j-style-trip-show","tag-jay-chou-will-tsai-feud","tag-jvr-music-lawsuit","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}