The impolite behaviour of a minder employed by a star in China has infuriated folks on the mainland and made them ask: “Who does she assume she is?”
Video footage that went viral on mainland social media exhibits the star being escorted by a gaggle of bodyguards as she tries to get right into a carry filled with passengers at Qingdao Airport, in jap China’s Shandong province, on June 10.
When the carry stops on the first ground, the place the well-known feminine is ready, a bodyguard shouts at passengers who’re going to the fourth ground to “get out”.
The one who posted the video on the social media platform Xiaohongshu, mentioned the folks within the carry refused, and requested the movie star: “Who do you assume you’re?”
The star lowered her head to cover her face after realising her bodyguard had overstepped the mark. She then moved to an empty carry.
Whereas the put up didn’t determine the movie star however hypothesis grew to become rife on social media. Among the many names being bandied about had been Wu Xuanyi or Cheng Xiao.
Each entertainers – actresses and singers – had been in the identical South Korean-Chinese language group WJSN from 2015 to 2023, and belong to the Beijing-based leisure company Yuehua Leisure.
They had been within the coastal metropolis on the identical day to carry out in a present.
Later video footage emerged revealing the movie star to be Wu Xuanyi.
Wu, 29, debuted as a member of WJSN and have become well-known in China after showing within the well-liked actuality lady group present Produce 101. She has 25 million followers on Weibo.
She had not responded to questions in regards to the incident on the time of writing.
Yuehua Leisure printed an announcement on June 12 defending its two stars and claiming the particular person on the centre of the controversy was “neither a employees member of the celebrities’ nor that of the corporate”.
It additionally mentioned accusations that the celebrities had been “posers” had been false and unfounded.
Followers of the story on social media had a lot to say in regards to the incident.
“She may have stopped the bodyguard and apologised, however she didn’t, so she was not harmless,” one particular person mentioned on Weibo.
Superstar posers are frowned upon in China.
In 2022, Chinese language actress Qin Lan was criticised for letting an worker kneel to carry a microphone for her at a jewelry promotion occasion.
