First off, good blog.

It didn't surprise me a celebrity would do things like that. Everyone has a dark side, a hidden something that doesn't want other people to know. Being a celebrity doesn't mean this privilege has to be stripped from him. However, since he has a wife and they are expecting a child, his actions are hard to justify. And there comes disappointment.

Do you expect your accountant to be a good husband and a charitable man in his private life? Even if you know his personal life is messed up, you'll still let him file your taxes because you trust his professionalism. But acting is different, it involves an audience to be emotionally related to the actors and their consequences. You're not emotionally related to your accountant unless he screws up your tax documents big time and makes you pay for his dry-cleaning bills.

I had always tried my best to separate the on-screen persona and the personal life of an actor. It had been successful so far until the Photo Scandal broke out. It's becoming more difficult to see an actor performing without relating to his personal life. I can no longer see Mr Chen as the same promising actor who did amazingly well in Dog Bite Dog. A part of me felt robbed by these publicized images of their private lives that I once didn't care for, but became more dominant in the blurred reality between their professional images and their messed-up private lives.