This story smells like a whole load of sketchy business from a talent agent who pestered a Singaporean lady with provocative questions for an upcoming audition for a client shoot, but we’ll break it down for you.
22-year-old Megan Lee posted her ordeal on Facebook after she was reportedly asked by a talent agent to be part of a photo shoot before the agent fired provocative questions including asking her about her skirt length and if she would change clothes in front of him.
She said the agent approached her after seeing her profile on a website called onlinecasting.sg, offering her some modeling jobs in fashion, swimwear, and lingerie.
Both of them then brought the conversation over to WhatsApp where she had sent him her modeling photos from previous campaigns upon request by the agent, according to her.
Lee claims she did not suspect any fishy business when the agent asked her for her cup size on the pretext that he was going to buy a bikini for her audition.
However, things quickly turned south when more invasive questions were asked. Such questions included:
- Whether any guy has seen her in lingerie and swimwear before
- Whether she is an “open-minded person”
- Whether she would do anything for the client, and what exactly would she do
- Whether she had “done it before”
- Whether she would be “loyal and open” with him
- Whether she could change in front of him from normal wear to lingerie and swimwear
- How short is her shortest skirt
You get the point. Lee then asked him if she could bring a friend but he said that he would need to do “security clearance” for her and it would take three days.
Lee found the matter strange and pointed out to the agent that she would need a three-day security clearance too in that case, which made her wonder why the audition for the client shoot was hastily arranged to be held the day after both parties contacted each other.
Fortunately, Lee did not meet the agent for the audition in the end and instead filed a police report.
“At first, I wasn’t sure if I could make a report for the case, as I didn’t actually meet up with him in the end, and he hadn’t done anything to me yet, but I had reason to believe that he would definitely try something with me had I actually met up with him,” she said.
“What that guy did was essentially something like ‘grooming’, except that it was to an adult instead of to a child!” she added.
Coconuts Singapore attempted to call the agent on Sunday but when a man picked up the phone on the other line, he claimed not to be him. Coconuts Singapore is verifying Lee’s police report with the relevant authorities.
