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Hoang Thuy Linh sex tape
An online sex video featuring a popular young TV star has riveted the nation for more than a week now, much as Hilton's notorious clip seized worldwide attention when it hit the Internet a few years ago. But unlike the American celebrity, the 19-year-old woman at the center of Vietnam's sex scandal had cultivated a good-girl image. And unlike Hilton, Hoang Thuy Linh will not be able to capitalize on her newfound notoriety. 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. In "Vang Anh's Diaries," Thuy Linh portrayed an earnest high school girl, modern and stylish but determined to uphold the traditional virtues of "cong," "dung," "ngon" and "hanh," which promote women as tidy, charming, soft-spoken and chaste. Then the 16-minute video hit the Internet on Oct. 15 featuring Thuy Linh in bed with her former boyfriend, both apparently aware that they were on camera. Ever since, the video has been the talk of Vietnam, where people secretly watch it at work, e-mail the Internet link to their friends and talk about it in the country's ubiquitous sidewalk cafés. Vietnam's state-owned television station VTV-3 promptly canceled "Vang Anh's Diaries" after broadcasting Thuy Linh's humiliating farewell on Oct. 15. Watch the video here if you're so inclined: part one and part two. (UPDATE: Those two yourfilehost.com clips total only six minutes. Try btmon.com to download the 16-minute version via BitTorrent.) It's grainy, pixelly cellphone video, which becomes a blurry mess anytime there's rapid movement. So what? Grainy, pixelly, blurry cellphone video of a beautiful 19-year-old girl in a vigorous hotel room romp is worth watching, and doubly hot because she's famous somewhere. Shame about her career though. In the modern civilized world, unauthorized sex tapes and nudie pics more commonly provide career-boosting sympathy and buzz rather than career-ending disgrace. Nick Gillespie wrote in 2003 about the Paris Hilton sex tape and (never circulated) Jessica Lynch topless photos: [T]here's no question that the entire "scandal" has brought far more attention to and interest in The Simple Life. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the story is one that has gone uncommented upon: There's been no hint from the suits at Fox that the tape—or other revealing skin shots of Hilton out there on the Web—will lead to the show's being pulled or the star's being canned. Indeed, in a savvy bit of corporate synergy, Fox News Channel's resident rageaholic Bill O'Reilly (the last angry man since Bill Bennett found peace through slot machines and threw in the perpetual outrage towel during the Clinton years) is touting the Hilton story not as a sex scandal that illustrates immoral youth but as one about invasions against "privacy." Maybe Hoang Thuy Linh should come to the States and do a season of The Surreal Life?
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Another celebrity sex tape scandal, this one both very hot (the video) and rather sad (the aftermath).