Mick needs a new change
The Modernine TV show "Nine Entertain" broke the news this week that Baromwut "Mick" hiranyadthiti is through with playing a ladyboy in prime-time soaps.
The real-life boyfriend of actress Pornchita “Benz” Na Songkhla will utter his last effeminate words on “Num Baan Rai Kab Waan Jai Hiso” when that series eventually ends.
Mick’s katoey days are ending not at the insistence of Benz but (maybe) because Channel 3 has adopted a progressive policy that bars straight men from playing ladyboys on its shows. Mick is in fact heartbroken at the career-threatening change.
His popularity jumped when he first did the routine on the soap “Mia Teang” (“Legal Wife”) and has continued to rise with every fresh application of makeup. And Benz, standing by his side in a taped video, said he always looked so cute as a ladyboy.
“What a shame!” he declared. “I enjoyed that role. But this is the policy set by the Culture Ministry.” After the “Nine Entertain” broadcast, Mick’s interview was posted on the MCOT website and the social media circled the wagons in his defence, criticising the ministry for an “unfair” policy.
But then Mick changed his story. He told the newspaper Matichon that the Culture Ministry had imposed no such policy on TV stations, contradicting what he’d said on Modernine.
“Why are they dragging me into this Culture Ministry thing?” he wondered.
In fact, he said, he was stripped of his role because an unnamed phuyai requested it, and that happened almost a year ago.
“There’s nothing behind it. You have a katoey play a katoey, that’s it!”
Matichon indeed quoted Culture Ministry secretary-general Somchai Sianglai as saying the “stop pretending” order certainly didn’t come from the government, which of course loves to pretend. So it seems to boil down to a mysterious phuyai influence.
Meanwhile Mick said he’d kidded Benz that if he decides he really wants to keep the role, he might “switch sides” and become gay. He is kidding, right?
