"Fan Chan" child star finds Focus, drops Bomb on Facebook
Focus Jeerakul, one of the child stars of the cinema blockbuster "Fan Chan" a decade ago, has made another movie - a video posted on Facebook in which she gets quite emotional while speaking from the heart, eventually dissolving into tears.
The plot is about her relationship with a male actor souring. She never gives his name but mentions he was in the soap opera “Theppabutr Chutathep”, so everyone’s figured out who he is.
Focus evidently decided to go public with a personal problem after reaching the limits of her tolerance. “This is a story of a woman who has put up with it, but can’t any longer,” she tells the camera. Focus knew he was seeing another woman. “He told her he wanted to break up with me but said my mum had asked him not to.”
Hearing that her beau had leaned on her mother for an excuse infuriated Focus, who says her mum has had zip to say on the matter, other than telling her that if the relationship was rocky, she should pack it in. In fact, Focus says, she told her guy – who she’d been seeing since September 2012 – to get lost, but he wouldn’t. Early on she’d announced on television that they were an item, only for him to deny it and say they we were like brother and sister. He was worried about his popularity on TV. “Once we were walking hand in hand and he let my hand go when other friends of his appeared.
“I just want you to act like a man and don’t make any woman a victim again,” she sobs. Then she recovers. “Why the heck you are crying?” she chastises herself.
Focus never mentions the cad’s name, but clearly she’s talking about Tanin “Bomb” Manoonsilp – he’s the one she named publicly before. Bomb has said nothing about Focus’ weepy video, but it’s getting more shares than the stock market and so far around 36,000 “likes”, followed by more than a thousand comments, virtually all of them representing applause.
Taya surrenders
The bombardment pro-Thaksin forces launched over the last week against Taya Teepsuwan, her mother Khunying Sasima Srivikorn and her school-age children turned the tide for the prominent member of the People’s Democratic Reform Council. She retreated last Friday, waving the white flag and apologising online to the anti-Thaksin movement for giving up.
“It’s my decision to take a break to protect my loved ones – my mum, family and kids,” Taya announced. A generous show of moral support ensued, messages coming from Chitpas “Tant” Kridakorn and Suthep Thaugsuban, among many others. Reporters crowded in for more details, but on Sunday Taya declared with regret on Facebook that she would be unable to give any interviews. She wants the whole protest episode over and done with and, if possible, forgotten.
So it appears that her interview with Nation TV’s Noppatjak Attanon on “Nation Midnight” will go down in history as her last. That was just after she assailed Khunying Pojaman Na Pombejara (Thaksin’s ex) with a whistle at a Bangkok mall. (That probably didn’t go down well at all with the Shinawatra crowd, who tend to be a vengeful bunch.) Taya told Noppatjak that she regretted “making trouble” for the Shinawatra family, but pointed out that the whistle-blowing was only symbolic.
On Saturday she posted photos of her mother and children. “Taking a break to be with my loved ones, doing my duty as a mother and daughter. Wish everyone Happy Women’s Day.”
