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May 30, 2009
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One of the unwitting stars of the films is up-and-coming actress Katrina Halili (left), 23, who has now filed a criminal complaint. --PHOTO: PINOYSHOWBIZLANDIA.COM
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View more photos </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--> MANILA - STEAMY sex videos of a cosmetic surgeon and his celebrity patients indulging in more than the standard nip and tuck have gripped the devoutly Roman Catholic Philippines. Home movies showing Dr Hayden Kho going beyond the usual doctor-patient boundaries with a rising film star and commercial model are spreading around the Internet, as hawkers on Manila's street corners sell DVDs of their trysts.
<table valign="top" align="left" width="200"> <tbody><tr><td class="padr8"> <!-- Vodcast --> <!-- Background Story --> <style type="text/css"> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </style> <div id="related" class="vclear"> <div class="quote"> <div class="headline">Who did it?</div> <div class="text">Dr Kho, 29, has issued a public apology and suspended his medical practice as calls increase for him to have his licence revoked - all the while insisting he was not the one who made the recordings public.
Now suspicion has shifted to the cuckolded boyfriends or girlfriends - or their associates - of some of the personalities in the videos.</div> <div class="text" align="right"> ... more</div> </div> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> The videos and the manner in which they came into the public domain have fascinated and repulsed this deeply religious country. One of the unwitting stars of the films is up-and-coming actress Katrina Halili, 23, who has now filed a criminal complaint. She is the only woman who has identified herself as one of four appearing separately with Dr Kho in the videos.
'I fully gave my heart and soul to a man who was doing his own movie,' she said. 'In our culture, this will stigmatise me for life.' She now has what many young actresses aspire to - instant name recognition - but for all the wrong reasons.
This week workers began pulling down from Manila's main avenue a large billboard of Halili endorsing a popular local brand of lingerie. The young actress later confirmed she had lost an endorsement contract and that film and modelling offers had also dried up since the tapes went public. Halili is now appealing for the public to stop watching the recordings, saying: 'You also have daughters, sisters, girlfriends, wives.' But so far, her appeal has fallen on deaf ears. A middle-aged street vendor who would identify himself only by his first name, Jose, openly hawked a 'Katrina-Hayden Scandal' video disc outside Manila's largest shopping mall, alongside his usual fare of pirated copies of Hollywood films. 'It's all over the Internet now, so sales are not that brisk as last week. But people still come here to buy them,' Jose said. A blue-collar worker who called himself 'Joe' said he bought a copy because he had no Internet access. 'Every red-blooded Filipino male dreams of being in bed with Katrina Halili,' he said. -- AFP
May 30, 2009
Sex scandal grips Philippines <!--10 min-->
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One of the unwitting stars of the films is up-and-coming actress Katrina Halili (left), 23, who has now filed a criminal complaint. --PHOTO: PINOYSHOWBIZLANDIA.COM
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<table valign="top" align="left" width="200"> <tbody><tr><td class="padr8"> <!-- Vodcast --> <!-- Background Story --> <style type="text/css"> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </style> <div id="related" class="vclear"> <div class="quote"> <div class="headline">Who did it?</div> <div class="text">Dr Kho, 29, has issued a public apology and suspended his medical practice as calls increase for him to have his licence revoked - all the while insisting he was not the one who made the recordings public.
Now suspicion has shifted to the cuckolded boyfriends or girlfriends - or their associates - of some of the personalities in the videos.</div> <div class="text" align="right"> ... more</div> </div> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> The videos and the manner in which they came into the public domain have fascinated and repulsed this deeply religious country. One of the unwitting stars of the films is up-and-coming actress Katrina Halili, 23, who has now filed a criminal complaint. She is the only woman who has identified herself as one of four appearing separately with Dr Kho in the videos.
'I fully gave my heart and soul to a man who was doing his own movie,' she said. 'In our culture, this will stigmatise me for life.' She now has what many young actresses aspire to - instant name recognition - but for all the wrong reasons.
This week workers began pulling down from Manila's main avenue a large billboard of Halili endorsing a popular local brand of lingerie. The young actress later confirmed she had lost an endorsement contract and that film and modelling offers had also dried up since the tapes went public. Halili is now appealing for the public to stop watching the recordings, saying: 'You also have daughters, sisters, girlfriends, wives.' But so far, her appeal has fallen on deaf ears. A middle-aged street vendor who would identify himself only by his first name, Jose, openly hawked a 'Katrina-Hayden Scandal' video disc outside Manila's largest shopping mall, alongside his usual fare of pirated copies of Hollywood films. 'It's all over the Internet now, so sales are not that brisk as last week. But people still come here to buy them,' Jose said. A blue-collar worker who called himself 'Joe' said he bought a copy because he had no Internet access. 'Every red-blooded Filipino male dreams of being in bed with Katrina Halili,' he said. -- AFP
