HK star Ron Ng denies sex romp with local Cathryn Lee
You want a scandal with a handsome playboy, a long-term girlfriend in the dark, a secret other woman, another lover on the side, sext messages, topless photos, confrontations, recorded phone calls, betrayal of friendships, denials and spin doctoring? You got it.
Hong Kong heartthrob Ron Ng, 33, has denied cheating on his now ex-girlfriend, 25-year-old Chinese actress Viann Zhang, with two other women, including 26-year-old Malaysian actress Cathryn Lee, despite the media seeing evidence of their sex texts and photos, which Cathryn says were exposed without her knowledge—and now her manager has gone to the press with a story that Cathryn and Ron are not even friends anymore.
Hong Kong tabloid magazine 3-Weekly blew the entire messy affair out of the water recently when they confronted Ron about his alleged relationship with Cathryn, after she had apparently meet their reporters to confess that she had been dating Ron for six months since March this year, in an effort to secure her girlfriend status.
Ron denied knowing Cathryn at first, but when they decribed who she was, he finally admitted having met her before but insisted that they weren't an item. The magazine then ran its story, which focussed on Cathryn's part in the sordid tale, including Ron's naked pictures and flirty messages to her mobile phone, and her reaction to his dismissal of their liaison.
"I've got nothing to say and I'm very disappointed with his response," the magazine quoted her saying. "We're only players in showbiz after all."
According to the article, Ron and Cathryn met when he was in Malaysia last year. (Our research shows that he was part of TVB's Be Charmed, Live In Malaysia 2011 Concert last October.) Ron claimed that he was single, when actually he was in a two-year relationship with Viann, and he starting seeing Cathryn in March this year.
The magazine said that Cathryn showed them proof of their relationship by revealing several sexy messages and hot photos that Ron sent to her phone, including one in which he's topless in bed and the text read, "When will you be in HK because I'm thinking of you", to which she replied, "Will you be free in July?" Ron then answered, "I'm free right now."
Last month, however, someone claiming to be Ron's missus contacted her on his WeChat—a Chinese phone text and voice messaging service—and wrote, "I'm Ron's wife. Who are you?" Shocked by the text, Cathryn replied, "You're crazy!" And when she confronted Ron about it, the article said that he insisted there was no one else but Cathryn.
This story gets even more soap opera-ish because after 3-Weekly ran its exposé, Cathryn posted a Facebook status update and denied being interviewed by the magazine. "I didn't reveal anything to the media. I can only say a friend had used me to gain personal benefits," she wrote.
However, her manager Jersey Chong has since confirmed the authenticity of the published sext exchanges. "They're real, but Cathryn didn't show them to the media. She suspects 'a friend' had forwarded the messages without her consent," Chong told Guang Ming Daily.
"Cathryn and Ron have been trading messages since they met last year. I believe they were attracted to each other but didn't officially date," added the manager.
Meanwhile, another media has reported that Ron and Viann split up last month, but that their break-up was caused by another woman and not Cathryn. The other woman also produced evidence of their illicit affair—the revelation of an intimate phone call in which he asks her to wear some pink knickers and tells her to send him her naked pictures.
HK media also got their hands on another phone conversation she recorded, this time of Viann confronting her about her relationship with Ron, which led to Viann dumping him after that.
Published: 14th August, 2012