Michael Hui denies rumors of cheating on his wife; tells the media: “Get a conscience!”

Yesterday, HK gossip magazine "Next Weekly" reported that veteran comedian Michael Hui was caught ‘cheating’ on his wife of more than 30 years by openly being ‘intimate’ with a woman in Saikung and hiding when he saw reporters. After learning of this, Oriental Daily’s reporter called Michael Hui’s wife to seek clarification on the matter. When Mrs. Hui picked up the phone and heard what this was about, she laughed and said: “It’s such a mockery to his [Michael’s] intelligence! If he really wanted to cheat, do you think he would do so in Saikung where there are lots of people, and out in public? Just think about it for a second and you would know it’s impossible – the whole story is fabricated. It’s actually quite ridiculous – all that magazine has is a picture of Michael in the front seat of his car and they take that to create such a grand story!”

Mrs. Hui continues: “The ‘woman’ they are referring to is actually a friend of ours. She is a writer from Shanghai who came to visit us and he is only fulfilling his obligation as a host by taking her to dinner.” (Did you tell the reporter [from the magazine] that Michael ‘lied to you for a lifetime’?) “I told the reporter not too exaggerate things and that if Michael were to lie to me, he already lied for a lifetime [referring to 30+ years of marriage]…the reporter simply took the last part of what I said and twisted it.”

Afterwards, Oriental Daily’s reporter requested that Mrs. Hui hand the phone over to Michael, who expressed: “I usually don’t bother to talk about this kind of news, but this time, it’s gone too far. They say that I was ‘cheating’ yet they don’t have a single picture that proves it – it’s all talk. And now, they are bothering my wife, which really crosses the line. She responded the way she did to that reporter because she was trying to support me by using a line from my Talk Show in response, however the reporter only wrote the last part of the sentence. I hope that in the future, when the media writes stuff, they don’t only think about making a living, but also think about what Tina Dik Na once said – think about having a conscience! All I’m going to say is: ‘What is real cannot be made false, what is false cannot be made real!”

Source: Oriental Daily
Translation: llwy12 @ AsianFanatics