Social networks catch on fire
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Everyone is equal in the eyes of the social media, a situation the privileged might consider a threat - but also an opportunity.
Celebrities are, for example, making use of the chat apps to respond to criticism, as actress Cherman “Ploy” Boonyasak has just done via Instagram.
An event organiser had accused her on Facebook of being unprofessional and low-class, although her name wasn’t mentioned. Evidently she and her manager had demanded a ridiculous fee.
Ploy let loose online, saying she was paid “only” Bt145,500, and that was Bt500 less than she’d expected because the organiser deducted for tax. That’s what was really unprofessional, she said. “We’d already paid the tax ourselves. It’s standard that they have to pay the full amount of the contract.”
But Ploy didn’t care about the money. (At those rates, who would?) She was miffed at the potential career damage. “It was a dirty trick to attack me on the Internet,” she said. And the hurtful accusation naturally spread to the mainstream media.
“What exactly is your intention in attacking me on Facebook?” she complained, and why are the papers blowing the story out of proportion? (Like we are right now.) “Stop being so dramatic in interpreting things. If you want to do that, go write some fiction.” And if you want to throw accusations around in public, Ploy said, get a TV show to host.
Anything else?
“May peace be with us all and please stop hurting each other.”
Bride of Kong
Kamolsuth “Kong” dabbaransi, son of former deputy premier and Chart Thai Party bigwig Korn, is done “squiring Nescafé heir Ausana Managitsiri around town”, as they put it in the gossip columns. He’s going to marry her on October 2.
Expect Hello! and the other high-gloss society magazines to be jammed with photos of the event.
The engagement party is at the Mandarin Oriental on September 17 with the wedding and reception set for the Siam Kempinski.
