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No easy rider, biker Peter travelling too far for some

No easy rider, biker Peter travelling too far for some

ACTOR PETER CORP Dyrendal, who seems to spend more time in hot water than a hard-boiled egg, is being freshly poached online after loud hints were dropped that he's fooling around on his wife, Ploypan.

This bubbling cauldron isn’t going to be as easy to escape as the steam he caused earlier by failing to honour various work obligations.
Ploypan started the whole current furore by posting a picture on Peter’s Instagram feed, showing her and their two young sons waiting for Daddy to come home. At the same time she left a curious comment on the Instagram account of Peter’s friend, saying her husband seemed to be busy with “a new colleague” and she hoped they could cut him loose so he could get home and help take care of the boys.
So everyone wanted to know who this “new colleague” was, and Thailand’s crack celebrity-gossip investigators went to work. The trail led to two young ladies, in fact, one an actual colleague – an attractive woman who’s working with Peter on a new TV series in which he and his pals visit different places on their motorcycles. The other woman (pardon the expression) met him in Buri Ram while he was filming an episode there.
Once their identities were shared online, both of these ladies hastily denied any kind of romantic involvement with Peter, but, hey, you know the social networks – guilty until proven innocent, right? (Or at least until boredom sets in.) The girls’ socialising accounts, and Peter’s, were soon filled with nasty accusations about uncontrolled lust and families being wrecked. Peter’s response on Instagram was curt: “Not everything is always what it seems.”
But the guy has to be at least a little worried about the fresh barrage of bad publicity, if only because “Latitude 6”, in which he makes his big-screen debut, hits the theatres next week. If so, he’s not the only one who’s concerned. The film was mainly financed by the government’s Internal Security Operations Command, and Maj-General Nakrob Boonbuathong, deputy director of its fifth operations coordination centre, has gone on record as saying Peter’s personal scandals could hurt the movie at the box office.
Nakrob said he appreciates Peter doing the film for less money than he’s usually paid and sharing in the risk of shooting in Pattani down South, where armed insurgents lurk, but he hopes the nasty rumours don’t cut into attendance in the cinemas.
Panadda Raksakaew, the film’s producer, tells our sister paper Kom Chad Luek that Peter is quite stressed out about the situation and wants to have a press conference to stem the gossip. Panadda suggested it might be better to get his wife onside first and then deal with the press. They haven’t broken up “yet” and are still in love, Panadda says, so let’s see if they can sort it out.
Ploypan seems amenable to that approach, posting a screen capture online of a quote from fortune-teller Krit to the effect that the couple’s horoscope indicates nothing about divorce. If that’s true, Ploy said, she’s pleased. Her choice of hashtags: “family comes first” and “forgive each other”.
 

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