Karn? Khan? Sek Loso |booked solid with fights

He’s not going to be posting anything further there for the next five days, he says, because he’s suffering from a chronic ache in the posterior.

“I will be stopping my activity here for five days, but my assistant will keep you informed about my work. Thanks for the support you guys give me and no thanks to those pains in the arse.” 

Specifically, the pains derive from a pair of unrelated public-relations catastrophes. First there was a fight with his wife, Wipakorn “Karn”, and then came Sek’s rather rude gesture toward rapper Khan-ngern Nianual of the hip-hop outfit Thaitanium. 

Karn had been posting nasty things on Facebook about what a lousy husband Sek is and suggesting he make a return visit to drug rehab. There’s no further testimony that Sek is indeed back on the drugs that got him in deep trouble earlier this year, and he swears he’s still clean. He says Karn is just upset that he’s been partying down on RCA without her. “It’s up to you whether you believe her or not,” he tells fans via ASTV Manager. 

Evidently Karn is currently residing someplace else, though they’re still married. “She might not dare come back,” Sek says. “I’ve broken three of her phones thanks to this dispute.” Don’t laugh, he says. “You might think it’s funny to read, but it isn’t.” 

Sek is of course the country’s most powerful magnet for bad publicity, but he does prefer the good kind. Recalling that he’d told the press in August that his next big show, “40 Tae Roo Suek Muang 14” (“40 Feeling 14”), was all set for the autumn, Manager asks whether the ruckus with Karn is a publicity gimmick. Fortunately Sek finds the question amusing and allows that Karn might indeed want to help promote the concert. “See you on November 2!” he says. 

Well, maybe she isn’t selling enough tickets, because Sek sparked yet another controversy over the weekend. He posted a photo of his foot raised toward a TV screen bearing an image of Khan-ngern. Sek must have been watching a Thaitanium video or something. The foot thing is not a gesture that generates a lot of admiration in Thailand. So much criticism piled up on Lek’s Facebook page that he soon removed the offending post. 

Khan himself has been unavailable for comment about the beef, but his fans have had a few choice words on the “Khan Thaitanium” Facebook page. “Whatever you are doing disrespects your friends in the same industry,” the page’s administrator points out. “You fell once and we’ll wait for the next fall.” 

By way of apologising, Sek didn’t, insisting later that he didn’t even know Khan was on the TV screen. “I was just joking around with my people!” 

So how are we doing with those ticket sales now? Sek seems to be aware that he’s put a crimp in public enthusiasm for his show, and hence the self-imposed exile from Facebook for five days. He’d hinted earlier about his imminent disappearance, posting that he was going to reduce his online vulgarity “by 50 per cent”.

Just watch: When it’s over, that five-day “hibernation” is going to feel like five minutes.