Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney Morning Herald - Business News, World News & Breaking News in Australia)

A female Hong Kong pop star at the centre of a sex photos scandal has been banned from singing at the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, a news report said today.

Singer Gillian Chung was one of a number of starlets pictured romping naked with singer-actor Edison Chen in photos downloaded from his laptop when he took it in for repairs and widely circulated on the internet.

The popular 27-year-old singer had been due to perform at the Olympics opening ceremony in August but has now been dumped because of the scandal, the South China Morning Post reported.

The ceremony's artistic director Zhang Yimou decided to take Chung off the bill after the scandal broke and had replaced her and another Hong Kong star not involved in the photos incident with Chinese pop act A-One, the newspaper said.

Millions of people in China and Hong Kong have downloaded the pictures of Edison Chen and his starlet lovers in the weeks since the pictures from his laptop were uploaded onto the internet.

Chen, 27, flew back to Hong Kong last week to issue a public apology to the women involved in the scandal and to announce he was abandoning his show business career after completing existing commitments.

More than 2000 people complained when Chung appeared on a charity TV show at the height of the scandal a fortnight ago and she was forced to scrap a public appearance last Saturday when protesters threatened to disrupt her performance.

A 23-year-old computer technician has been charged with using a computer for dishonest intent and has been released on police bail after a series of brief court appearances and a stretch in custody.

The scandal over the pictures has tainted the saccharine-sweet image of Hong Kong's so-called Canto-pop industry whose cheesy romantic melodies sung in Cantonese sell by their millions in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan.

DPA

dayummm where is playboy or penthouse asia in all of this? US pron rags would have licked this up big time if a similar scandal broke here. lol

Edison Chen is definitely moving up on my lists of all time great studs. Not only did he fuck all these women, he killed them and left a trail of corpses...well their careers and marriages anyways though I think one of the chicks he banged and photographed was suicidal?

In the immortal words of Conan when asked what is best in life: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"

He is however being an emo pussy about the whole thing though.

Yep Gillian, when she first got wind of the scandal she thought it would blow over but then she thought about commiting suicide.

Bobo Chan actually had her engagement broken off.

apparently edisen has over 10,000 photos. They say a good chunk of those are from his days with gillian

Gillian Kurt Cobain'ing herself would be doing the music world a favor. Didn't Cecilia Cheung's husband Nicholas Tse file for divorce too? Reading about this scandal in the Chinese papers makes my morning dumps so much more interesting. Lolz.

Awe I like twins but its girly music. As for Nicholas I dunno.. I read they came to blows in a hotel. Nicholas kept calling Cecilla/Nicholas stupid, he also said to Edison that he should have just paid the blackmailer.

but Edison was like it was before you and there is nothing anyone can do

I also read that after this fight it was only then Nicholas stopped wearing his wedding ring. But I also read that Nicholas said their relationship is stronger than ever.

Personally I think he wishes he was in the photos with Edison.

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