Singer Rain, who married actress Kim Tae-hee in January, revealed how much their wedding cost on Tuesday’s episode of “Carefree Travelers.”
“We got married after dating for five years,” he said. “A wedding ceremony is about two people being happy. (Kim) suggested holding it in a church. She said she wanted something that didn’t have empty formalities or vanity, something that wasn’t grandiose. I wore a tuxedo that I already had.”
Rain added that the two also did not hire a professional photographer to take wedding photos.
“We have a video, but there was no photographer. Guests (present at the ceremony) had their own cameras and took photos the way they wanted to.”
Korean stars Kim Tae-Hee and Rain wed in modest church ceremony
Rock singer-songwriter John Mayer on Tuesday went into emergency surgery for removal of his appendix, forcing his band featuring former members of the Grateful Dead to postpone a show.
The 40-year-old Mayer “was admitted into the hospital for an emergency appendectomy” early Tuesday, a representative said in a statement without further detail.
Dead and Company — featuring Mayer along with Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann — postponed a concert scheduled for Tuesday in New Orleans, saying it would be rescheduled.
The group has been touring since 2015 when the Grateful Dead, the legendary jam rockers of the hippie era, officially retired. Dead and Company is next set to play Thursday in Orlando, Florida.
Mayer has enjoyed a string of chart-topping albums since the 2000s with his blend of mid-tempo acoustic rock and blues.
He has drawn additional attention for a series of relationships with women celebrities including Taylor Swift and Katy Perry.
Ouyang was trained in classical music in her home country before furthering her studies at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in the United States at the tender age of 13.
Meet Ouyang Nana, an up-and-coming star from Taiwan
Born into a family of entertainers, Ouyang is the daughter of veteran Taiwan actors Ouyang Long and Fu Juan, as well as the niece of renowned singer Ouyang Feifei.
And with her playing the role of Jackie Chan’s daughter in his upcoming action sci-fi film “Bleeding Steel”, the future seems bright for this young musician-actress.
JAKARTA – An Indonesian monkey who shot to fame after it snapped a grinning selfie – and sparked a landmark US copyright case – was named “Person of the Year” Wednesday by the animal rights group that took on the simian’s cause.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it was honouring Naruto, a crested black macaque with a goofy-looking grin, to recognise that “he is someone, not something”.
In 2011, the monkey pressed the shutter button while staring down the lens of a camera set up British nature photographer David Slater on the island of Sulawesi.
The photos quickly went viral and PETA launched a lawsuit that claimed the then six-year-old Naruto should be “declared the author and owner of his photograph”.
“Naruto’s historic selfie challenged the idea of who is a person and who is not and resulted in the first-ever lawsuit seeking to declare a nonhuman animal the owner of property, rather than being declared property himself,” PETA Founder Ingrid Newkirk said in a statement Wednesday.
The court case set off an international debate among legal experts about personhood for animals and whether they can own property.
Slater maintained he owned the rights to the pictures since he engineered its creation – setting up the tripod and walking away for a few minutes, only to find out that the monkey had grabbed his camera and snapped away.
The British photographer won the first hearing in California but PETA then appealed to a higher court.
The case was settled in September – before that court could make a ruling – with Slater agreeing to donate 25 per cent of any future revenue from using or selling the monkey selfies to help protect the habitat of crested macaques in Indonesia.
Authorities and activists have been trying to persuade villagers on Sulawesi to stop consuming the critically endangered monkeys, one of many creatures that form part of the local indigenous community’s diet.
A Japanese man was attacked on Pattaya beach by a Thai woman who was apparently soliciting sex clients there early on Wednesday, police said.
The Pattaya police station was alerted to the incident at 1.30am. Officers rushed to the beach near Tip Plaza and found Hiroyuki Kakashima, 70, trembling in fear.
He told tourist police via an interpreter that he was walking on the beach and then he was surrounded by four or five men and a Thai woman punched his face five times.
He then ran for help. Police will check feeds from security cameras at the spot to try to locate the attackers.
A local news media outlet reported Tuesday that Fan Cheng-cheng, 17, has been training at the Yeuhua Entertainment, a multinational management agency based in Korea, for over a year.
The agency officially admitted that the star’s brother is its trainee. “He really likes Korea and is training hard for debut,” the company said.
PARIS – France’s best-known rock star Johnny Hallyday has died aged 74 after a battle with lung cancer, his wife Laeticia told AFP on Wednesday.
The leather-clad would-be Elvis, known simply as Johnny, announced in March he had been diagnosed with the disease and would undergo treatment.
“Johnny Hallyday has left us. I write these words without believing them. But yet, it’s true. My man is no longer with us,” said Laeticia Hallyday, 42, in a statement made in the early hours.
“He left us tonight as he lived his whole life, with courage and dignity.”
While he was never taken seriously abroad, Hallyday broke from France’s classic “chanson” tradition in the late 1950s, selling more than 100 million albums and headlining 50 major tours.
Born on June 15 1943, he attempted suicide in 1966, collapsed on stage in 1986 and married five times, twice to the same woman, the daughter of one of his oldest friends and songwriters.
“There is something of Johnny in all of us,” the French presidency said in a statement on news of his death.
Rumours of Hallyday’s passing had flown online in recent weeks after he was admitted to hospital in Paris with breathing problems.
Hallyday, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Smet, spent six days under medical care before returning to rest at his home in Marnes-la-Coquette, west of the capital.
“Until the very last moment, he held firm against this illness that had afflicted him for months, teaching us all extraordinary life lessons,” said Laeticia Hallyday.
The rocker “lived his entire life wholly for his fans, who loved him and idolised him”, she added.
A photo circulating online this week showed a ‘news broadcast’ of the 62-year-old actor’s supposed demise.
The digitally altered image showed a female news presenter announcing that he had died in Hong Kong, as well as a photo of the veteran actor in his “God of Gamblers” role.
Photo: Weibo
Tan promptly rubbished the ‘report’ on Tuesday (Dec 5) and told Hong Kong media that her husband is in good health and taking a break at home.
A man has attributed a radical change in his daughter’s behaviour to her consumption of some slimming pills.
The concerned father said that after taking the pills, his 19-year-old daughter, Ms Chen, turned from an extrovert to an introvert, became sluggish and even told him that she was haunted by ‘unclean things’.
According to Lianhe Wanbao, the pills contain Sibutramine, a chemical which side-effects can cause irregularity in a person’s heartbeats.
Sibutramine can also cause hallucinations and mood swings.
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Ms Chen is a polytechnic student and her family members describe her as a cheerful and bubbly individual.
However, they alleged that after Ms Tan started taking a brand of slimming pills about a year ago in 2016, she became overly sensitive, temperamental, and repressed — almost like another person entirely.
Ms Chen’s father, Mr Chen, 48, said that three weeks ago, her daughter was on the way home, when she suddenly screamed, saying that someone was following her and whispering in her ear.
Her father, who was also present during the incident did not see or hear anything.
It was at the moment he realised the severity of the matter.
He also told reporters that his daughter had lamented about ‘supernatural encounters’ in her school compounds,
Ms Tan also reportedly told her father that she suspected that she was possessed, before hiding in her room to cry.
She became addicted to plastic surgery after that and kept spending money on procedures in her quest to become the ‘perfect beauty’, reported World of Buzz and China Press.
Most of her surgeries were done when she was about 21 years old, said Berry.
During that time, her ex-boyfriend, who was nine years older than her, kept criticising her looks and comparing her with other girls, she said.
Berry Ng before surgery.Photo: YouTube
The constant insecurity caused her to go on a plastic surgery spree.
Within six months, she did close to 30 procedures on her forehead, eyes, cheeks, nose and chin — all in hopes of getting a compliment from her then boyfriend.
Berry Ng today.Photo: YouTube
However, he offered none.
Berry said: “At that moment, if he had stopped me and told me that I was beautiful enough, I would have stopped, but he didn’t.”
Instead, her boyfriend told her breasts were too small, and Berry went for a breast augmentation surgery.
After the surgery, her boyfriend insisted that he did not ask her to do it.
She finally snapped out of it after when her mother who visited her during the recovery period after her surgery, cried upon seeing her.
Berry broke up with her boyfriend and recovered from her plastic surgery addiction.
She subsequently put up videos warning other girls about the dangers of going under the knife constantly.
Sharing her experience, Berry said that many girls are suffering the way she did, being in relationships where their partners would constantly find fault with their looks.
Asked whether she preferred her current looks or her old face, she laughed and said that she would very much rather go back to looking like her former self.
Photo: YouTube
If there’s a lesson to take away from Berry’s experience, it’s to always love yourself for who you are, not how you look.
