Adultery Scandal Actress Misses TV Show Due To ‘Illness’
by julia on Sunday, May 26, 2013
by julia on Sunday, May 26, 2013
Yaguchi Mari got her start as a singer in pop group Morning Musume in the late nineties, and has since enjoyed a successful career as a musician, actress, and TV personality. However, lately she’s been better known in the media for her scandalous personal life, after Josei Seven magazine revealed on May 21 that her equally famous husband Masaya Nakamura had found her in bed with a model named Kenzo Umeda.
When Mari Yaguchi missed a regular live TV appearance on May 24, citing poor health, she drew scornful reactions from both her fellow TV personality Ariyoshi Hiroiki and from the Internet world. We’ve recently seen other examples of how unforgiving Japanese netizens can be when it comes to celebrities with questionable morals, and now Yaguchi is receiving the same treatment. The convenient timing of her “poor health” as a way of avoiding her public humiliation is a little too good to be true, and while the media may have accepted her excuse, netizens aren’t buying it.
From Yahoo! Japan:
Yaguchi Mari Misses Appearance Due to Poor Health, Ariyoshi Expresses Dissatisfaction With An “Ugh”
After 30-year-old TV personality Yaguchi Mari’s recently reported separation from her husband, actor Nakamura Masaya (27), due to her affair with a model, she missed her regular Friday live performance on NTV’s “Hirunandesu!” (“It’s noon!”) on May 24. Announcer Miura Asami explained her absence by saying “She’s absent due to illness, and will only be appearing in video segments.”
A lot of attention was being focused on what Yaguchi was saying in her live TV appearances, but on this day she was absent due to poor health. When Ariyoshi Hiroiki made an audibly dissatisfied “Ugh” sound at the reason for her absence, MCNanbara Kiyotaka retorted, “What was that ‘Ugh’ supposed to mean?” Ariyoshi laughed and responded, “No, no, that’s what I thought.”
What’s more, that same day model Kawakita Mayuko was also away from the studio. When Nanbara lamented, “It’s just a bunch of old men today,” Hisamoto Masamifrantically objected, “No way, there are old ladies here too!” and got a lot of laughs.
