A groundswell of reader interest (two e-mails! + one blog comment!) prompts tonight’s blog post …

Hong Kong nation was abuzz earlier this week when rumours emerged on July 6th suggesting that Joey Wang (aka Joey Wong Tso-Yi) had become a Buddhist nun.  Supposedly, Wang entered a Buddhist temple in the Vancouver area and had her head shaved because she had become distraught upon hearing rumours that her old flame Chyi Chin (齊秦) was about to marry model/actress Stephanie Siao (蕭薔).

As he was at the root of the rumour, Chyi Chin reportedly began frantic attempts to contact Wang to confirm the reports.  While Chin was unable to talk with Wang herself, he was able to reach Wang’s uncle who assured Chin that the rumours were false.  Speaking to the press on July 8th, Chin told reporters that Joey Wang wrote “there is no such thing” when she and her uncle exchanged text messages about the matter.  Further, Wang’s uncle told Chin that the talk probably started because Wang joked with her friends recently about becoming a Buddhist nun.

JOEY WANG PROFILE:

Birthday: January 31st, 1967

Past Rumoured Relationships:

• Sam Hui Kwoon-Kit (while working together on WORKING CLASS BLUES)
• Lawrence Ng Kai-Wah
• Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (while working together on A CHINESE GHOST STORY)
• Peter Lam Kin-Ngok (Media Asia chairman, son of tycoon Lim Por-Yen)

Confirmed Relationships:

• Chyi Chin (16 year on-again, off-again relationship that began in 1989 while working together on the film PRETTY GIRL)

First Film: HOW TO CHOOSE A ROYAL BRIDE (1984)

Breakout Hit: A CHINESE GHOST STORY (1987)

Final Film: SHANGHAI STORY (2005)

Retired to Vancouver, Canada area in 2005

Last photographed: September 2005 while shopping with an elderly lady — believed to be her mother — in the Vancouver area

RELATED LINKS:

• Yahoo! News Singapore:  Joey Wong a nun? (English)
• Taipei Times Pop Stop: Joey Wang, Vivian Hsu, more (English)
• Asia One: Ex-actress now a nun? (English)
• China Daily Star Gazing: Joey Wang; Nic Tse/Cecilia Cheung, Lin Miaoke (English)
• Xinhua article about the text message (Chinese)
  
• Sina.com.hk article about Joey Wang (Chinese)
• Xinhua on the life and loves of Joey Wang (Chinese)
• Initial report of Wang becoming a nun (Chinese)
• Profile and Photo Gallery courtesy Xinhua (Chinese)

Image credit: Xinhua

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