Vietnam Video Scandal: Huang Thuy Lin--the new ''Hanoi Hilton'' Vietnam sex video shocker, cell phone career killer--LINKS!

This petite soap star has scandalised the conservative nation after a sex video with her boyfriend was posted on the Internet. Unlike Hilton, however, Hoang Thuy Linh, 19, is unlikely to capitalise from the scandal as her show has been cancelled and she has been forced to make a tearful apology. "I made a mistake, a terrible mistake,'' said the doe-eyed teen, who had cultivated a good-girl image. "I apologise to you, my parents, my teachers and my friends.''
Police have arrested four students accused of posting the video of the teenage TV soap star having sex with her boyfriend. Authorities yesterday announced the arrests of the four Hanoi men and women, aged between 21 and 25. They would be held for three months pending an inquiry. Hoang Thuy Linh, the lead actress of Vang Anh's Diary, was at the centre of a storm nearly two weeks ago when Internet users downloaded the clip, which initially ran for five minutes, from a video-sharing website and began circulating it. Vietnam state television canned her popular nightly show after the clip was revealed. The soap, an interactive youth drama in its second season, offered lessons on teenage issues and allowed viewers to vote on moral and lifestyle questions by mobile text message and email. It had been controversial in the communist country, praised by some for addressing youth issues but criticised by others for focusing on the concerns of the fashionable, urban middle-class elite. Authorities believe the clip was stolen from the laptop of Linh's boyfriend. Linh and her boyfriend, the son of a senior police official, would not face charges, Hanoi police director Nguyen Duc Nhanh told Phap Luat Ho Chi Minh City newspaper. Hilton's sex tape, made with then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, surfaced just before the start of her reality TV series, The Simple Life and helped propel her to superstardom.

Hasn't anyone learned not to loose their job due to sex films yet?



here is a link to the definitive link list regarding the Vietnamese actress who now must hold her head hung low in disgrace.
Cheer up little actress, your future may be bright yet.


It's too ironic for Celbrity City not to take a moment to dwell on the inherent ironies of the fact that Vietnam used to be a French colony, and that Hanoi is often referred to as the Paris of Asia, and that during the war, American soldiers were imprisoned in what they came to call the Hanoi Hilton (including Presidential candiate John McCain, R., Arizona). Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, we present the new Hanoi Hilton:

HEY'RE calling her the Paris Hilton of Asia. Actress Huang Thuy Lin, 19, shocked conservative Vietnam when a cellphone-shot tape of her and her boyfriend having sex made its way to the Internet. While Hilton's sexcapade did wonders for the heirhead, Thuy Lin's exposure has ruined her career, reports the New York Post. She was immediately thrown off her popular TV soap, forcing her to go on the air with a tearful confession. Four teens were arrested for posting the video.

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