Peace reigns on the Asavahame frontier
It looks like any chance of a storm has passed for singer Nantida "Tu" Kaewbuasai and her daughter Chontida "Pleng" Asavahame, judging from their recent public appearances
Tu hid from the limelight for a spell while Pleng’s dad, Chonsawat “Ae” Asavahame, was being chewed up in the rumour mill before, during and after his wedding to actress Janie Thienposuwan.
Now both mother and daughter are comfortably giving interviews, and those asking the questions usually stick to how those two are doing, not the other two. Tu has gained an image as a strong woman thanks to the spectacle of her former beau suddenly taking a wife, but her strength is no surprise. She’s had a long career in show business.
“I always tell Pleng that we’ll survive if we’re sincere in what we do,” Tu said at a recent event where Pleng joined her. “I’ve been working for 39 years, since I was 16, and I’ve learned that lesson. We can succeed at anything if it comes from our heart.” And teenager Pleng said she’d always stand by her mother. When the question did finally arise about whether Pleng feels her relationship with her dad has changed, she said flat out, “Nothing changes and we’ll always keep in touch.”
If the fans want more than that, Hello! magazine delves deeper in its latest issue, getting Tu to talk further about herself and her bond with her daughter, and Pleng confirms that she still likes the old man. “We talk all the time. If I don’t call him, he’ll call me, and vice versa. He’s a good dad, as good as my mum, and he gives me everything I ask for. I don’t ask him much, though!”
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Beans spilled, more on way
Sexy luk thung star Suteewan “Baitoey” Thaveesin might find a zipper across her lips after telling the press all about entertaining Thaksin Shinawatra in Hong Kong and then Singapore, a pair of performances for which her label at RS paid her Bt1 million. She mentioned that her “boss” is close to Thaksin, so it could only be the main man himself, Surachai “Hia Hor” Chetchotisak.
Thus Hia Hor was invited to comment, but, perhaps caught off-guard, merely said he’d hold a press conference – tomorrow – with the head of the R Siam label, Supachai Nilawan. Gee, he didn’t seem too pleased, reporters surmised. Even more cynical people wondered if there was a link between Baitoey’s revelations and the anniversary of the coup that ousted Thaksin on September 19, just something to snag his fans’ attention.
Those closer to the music industry noted that her latest album has just been released, but it’s up against a new single from rising luk thung star Thidarat “Ying Lee” Srichumpon. And that tune, “Kor Jai Laek Bur Tor” (“Trading a Heart for a Phone Number”), has come out on Grammy Gold, which is R Siam’s rival.
So now we have to wait and see what Hia Hor has to say, can of worms-wise. Does it sometimes seem like life just progresses from one press conference to another?
