[VIETNAM] Celebrity Thuy Linh rocked by Internet sex scandal

October 29, 2007 by Dennis Amith

Fans were shocked when Hoang Thuy Linh’s sex video (featuring her and her boyfriend) were on the Internet. The popular (and conservative) celebrity is now being rocked by the scandal after a friend of her boyfriend took the video and gave to friends who distributed it on the Internet.

According to an AP article, “Thuy Linh’s show has been canceled and her career is over, capped by a tearful farewell on national television during which she apologized for disgracing her family and disappointing her fans, most of them high school girls.”

“Her fall from grace has highlighted the generational fault-lines in Vietnam, a sexually conservative culture within which women have been taught for centuries to remain chaste until marriage and stay true to one man - no matter how many times he cheats on them.”