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Ken hasn't "retired", he's just getting life in order

Ken hasn't "retired", he's just getting life in order

It was only a few years ago - before the rise of Nadech Kugimiya and Jirayu "James" Tangsrisuk - that it seemed like actor Theeradej "Ken" Wongpuapan was everywhere. His face was on giant billboards and magazine covers and he was in TV commercials as well

So where is Ken these days? We haven’t seen him in ages, and a rumour’s been going around that he quit show business.
Not at all, Ken said earlier this week, to the relief of his many admirers, when he put in a public appearance for a retail product. He said he has no plans to quit acting. “I just want to lay low when I don’t have any work lined up, and my plan at the moment is to do one drama a year and only appear in public for the products for which I’m an official presenter. I want to spend the rest of my time with my family.”
Cancer claimed Ken’s father, movie director Weeraprawat, earlier this year, so it’s certainly understandable that he wants to spend more time with his mother. Lately he’s been working on the series “Mafia Luad Mangkorn”, appearing in the segment titled “Krathing” directed by Pongpat Wachirabanjong. The series is expected to air before the end of the year.
 
Coup vindicated
The National Council for Peace and Order has warned us we cannot believe anything published by the Daily Mail, and sure enough, here’s poor George Clooney claiming the British newspaper has fibbed about him.
Agence France-Presse reports that the Hollywood star on Wednesday blasted what he called a “completely fabricated” report in the Mail that his fiancee’s mother opposes their upcoming marriage.
The Oscar-winning actor actually wrote an opinion piece about for USA Today (an occasionally more trustworthy American newspaper), upbraiding the UK tabloid for its “irresponsibility” in reporting that his soon-to-be mother-in-law opposes the marriage because of her supposed Druze faith.
The actor said the daily turned many key facts into falsehoods in its report about the mother of his Lebanon-born bride-to be, Amal Alamuddin. “The Daily Mail has printed a completely fabricated story about my fiancee’s mother opposing our marriage for religious reasons,” Clooney wrote. “It says Amal’s mother has been telling ‘half of Beirut’ that she’s against the wedding.
“Amal’s mother is not Druze. She has not been to Beirut since Amal and I have been dating, and she is in no way against the marriage,” the actor insisted, and he was still just warming up.
“The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous. We have family members all over the world, and the idea that someone would inflame any part of that world for the sole reason of selling papers should be criminal.”
AFP explains that Amal Alamuddin, 36, fled Lebanon for Britain with her family during Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war, when she was a small child. She now holds British citizenship and is an attorney specialising in international law and human rights.
The news that Alamuddin had claimed the heart of Clooney, one of Hollywood’s most celebrated bachelors, caused an international media frenzy when their engagement was announced in April.
 
 
 
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