Congratulations to Ada Choi, who in December 2007 announced her engagement and imminent marriage to longtime underground boyfriend Zhang Jin. Zhang is a Mainland television actor and martial artist whom Choi has been dating for approximately 4.5 years. According to reports, he is a Christian like Ada.
There had been various tabloid rumors over the years that Choi and Zhang were dating, but such gossip had died down recently. In fact, at the time that Choi announced her engagement and marriage plans, the Hong Kong tabloids were circulating reports that she was involved in a lesbian relationship with good friend and fellow Hong Kong Christian actress Monica Chan!
Whoops! Guess not… Good work, Hong Kong Tabloids! Caught in another lie, you scumbags!
[Sort of. News reports indicate that Zhang Jin doubled for Zhang Ziyi (no relation) and Michelle Yeoh in some of the martial arts sequences in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999). So I guess that means he...looks like a woman? Of course, just because Choi is marrying someone who looks like a woman doesn't mean she's a lesbian, right? Right?]
Interestingly, this wasn’t the first time that Choi was rumored to be a lesbian. The tabloids have raised the possibility at least twice: once when Choi played Billie, a lesbian bar owner, in Love & Sex Among The Ruins (1996), and again when she complimented a female Cantonese opera singer known for her cross-gender roles.
It was also interesting how Choi kept the relationship secret for all these years and then suddenly announced that she would be marrying Zhang. This is interesting because for years that’s exactly what she told the tabloids she would do: deny and lie to them about if (and who) she was dating, but then promising to announce when she would be getting married when the time was right. As it turns out, Choi is a woman of her word. [If you tell someone you're going to lie to them, does that still make it lying?]
I look forward to seeing who her bridesmaids will be and who attends her wedding because she’s pretty much the Kevin Bacon of Hong Kong Entertainment Christendom – she’s somehow befriended or connected to virtually every Hong Kong Christian entertainer there is. Her wedding could be the biggest event in Hong Kong Entertainment Christendom this decade. In fact, it could be bigger than that since she’s well respected in the wider HK entertainment industry and has good relations with all her colleagues, Christian or not.
No doubt she will use her wedding as an opportunity to convert them. I predict that there’s going to be at least one altar call, maybe two…and that’s just during the ceremony, itself. Who knows what’s going to happen at the wedding banquet? The over-under on the number of people who will be converted is currently four…at least according to Hong Kong bookies. [Hongkies will bet on anything...]
Anyway, congratulations to Ada Choi, perhaps the paragon of what an HK Christian entertainer should be: a person who loves her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, above all else, and a person who also loves her guns. [Amen.]
Ada Choi: Everything This Website Aspires to Be – Holy, Dangerous & Not A Lesbian.
Congratulations!!