Tough being gay when you're not
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It's the slow season, intellectually, so a lot of people are gossiping about which male celebrities are gay.
They’ve been picking on Phupoom “Ken” Pongpanu, with the latest rumour being that he hires pretty young ladies to walk at his side so he looks like a stud.
Among the not-very-heroic “whistle-blowers” is director Poj Anon, who says he “knew” Ken before he got popular, back when Ken appeared in Poj’s camp “Hor Taew Taek” movies. Poj says Ken’s original nickname was “Bell-Bell”.
Ken hasn’t denied that part, but he says he couldn’t afford to hire girls just to fend off gossip, and if had that kind of money he’d “rather spend it on sweets”. Then, getting somewhat more serious, he said, “If I really want girls to surround me, it wouldn’t be that difficult.”
Well, Ken can’t do anything about his history with gay guys, so if he wants to prove he’s straight, there’s only one way out of this – he has to get married. That’ll settle it. No it won’t.
Star being born
Jame Mar is making his acting debut fresh out of Assumption University – on the Channel 3 hit series “Suparbburut Juthathep”, no less – so it’s no surprise that he finds his role as Khunchai Ronnapee challenging.
Raised in Hong Kong from childhood, Jame first had to polish up his Thai. Then he took lessons in acting, ballroom dancing, rugby and martial arts, he tells our sister paper Kom Chad Luek.
Having mastered all that, he failed miserably with the love scenes, which is a shame since he plays a witty playboy type. One scene in which he had to express his love for heroine Chalida “Mint” Vijitvongthong took five hours to nail down. “I just felt so shy!” he says.
The scene turned out fine and Jame’s confidence is rising, but he says work leaves him no time for romance. No wonder it took him four hours for that love shoot.
Or he could be gay, of course.
