The social media world has shifted its gaze from Tono and Tangmo to a new celeb scandal the military government fears will sabotage next week’s premiere of a military-sponsored film meant to promote peace in the south.
Rumors of infidelity fueled by leaked pictures and social media messages have fed speculation by netizens that the film’s star, Thai-Danish actor Peter Corp Dyrendal, cheated on his wife with a model, prompting an online campaign to boycott the upcoming romantic drama “Sixth Latitude.”
It started Saturday when Peter’s wife Ploypan Taveerat posted a series of messages to her Instagram that the 39-year-old actor had not returned home for a while and is addicted to a “particular colleague.”
“I’m happy every time I hug my babies. I want daddy to come home. The babies miss their dad. Doesn’t he miss them? Come back, please” the caption said.
The nang rai to Ploy’s nang eak in this drama is a promotional model from Buriram province identified only as “B. Buriram.”
The scandal is threatening the upcoming romance film “Sixth Latitude,” in which Peter plays a Bangkok Buddhist who falls in love with a Pattani Muslim teacher, which doesn’t seem to fit his reputation off screen at the moment.
Many anti-Peter commentators who’ve sided with Ploypan have encouraged others to not see the movie, which opens July 23.
“I ask people to not link Peter to ‘Sixth Latitude’ because that’s a personal affair. The film is about acting and made by the bureaucrats to help alleviate problems in the South and depicts the beauty of nature and the local way of life there,” the film’s producer, Maj. Gen. Nakrob Boonbuathong of Thailand’s Internal Security Operations Command told Bangkok Post.
Internet sleuths dug for dirt and found photos of what appears to be Peter and B. Buriram flirting in a bar in Buriram.
Peter broke silence for the first time yesterday by posting on Instagram, “Not everything is always what it seems,” which didn’t do much to put out the fire.
