Imagine this man getting hitched in, I don't know, these gloves and a sequinned tuxe. Image: Corbis
Is Jay Chou the Chinese Kanye? Details on Mandopop’s wedding of the year have been dropping in tantalising dribs and drabs, but the latest revelation is a real doozy.
Get this: Chairman Chou (cringey nickname, I know) will be having not one, not one and a half, but two bridal bashes.
This juicy nugget of nuptial intel was tossed to the ravenous reporters at a junket for CUG, a new pop band made up of Jay’s best bud Ken Lin and dance instructors Hsiao Mai and Ice Cream (another crazy monicker).
Pressed to divulge more, Jay more or less threw up his hands and said one will be held in Taiwan and the other at a “secret overseas location” that will not be Paris, as previously rumoured. (Make it Singapore, please!)
And yes, “Chinese Kanye” (I’m standing by this epithet; it’s totally apt given Jay’s similar propensity for pomp and pageantry) adds that the weddings will be a public affair.
Wedding dance for the ages? Image: Screenshot of CUG video
Well, then. The pieces are all beginning to fit together. Here’s what we know so far: Two weddings; one in Taiwan and the other in Country X; both by January 2015, if the Mandopop prince is to keep his pledge to get hitched before his 36th birthday on January 18.
What’s more, aforementioned dance teacher Ice Cream informed the assembled media mob that he’s actually seen the wedding photos, and that “[they] feel like a music video”. Translation: We can look forward to jaunty concert-calibre costumes on both bride and peacockish groom!
One last tidbit: Ice Cream also credits himself as being the matchmaker, having introduced the Mandopop prince to Hannah Quinlivan at a joint dinner gathering.
Gossip rag Apple Daily adds that Jay fell for Hannah’s guileless grace and girl-like glamour. Now that we can believe, given some of the dainty beauty looks we’ve seen sported by future Mrs Chou.
All that’s left to do, I guess, is for us pop culture pundits to set a countdown clock. Less than two months to go, guys!
You can follow Jay Chou and Hannah Quinlivan on Weibo.