That’s barely even a sex scandal in America

Ever since Ivy told me last week about this Edison Chen sex photo scandal that was all over Asian news (and has finally hit the English-speaking world), I’ve been thinking: “This guy’s just working in the wrong country. If this fella was in America, his career would really be taking off right now.” And I’m not even saying that because he’s a mid- to late-20’s Asian male.

I mean, honestly, the guy had a bunch of lewd photos of him and numerous attractive Asian celebrity actresses/models/singers make their way onto the Internet. Doesn’t that sound like a prerequisite to becoming a celebrity in the United States? I mean, he actually had a real career before this fiasco too. Didn’t Kevin Federline build a career in entertainment off of getting with a celebrity pop star? And it’s not even like he was caught with a prostitute (Hugh Grant), somebody underage (R. Kelly) or a supermodel after dumping his pregnant girlfriend (Tom Brady). And I mean, photos? In America, still images just don’t really do it - anything short of video just isn’t interesting I guess (Paris Hilton, R. Kelly, Colin Farrell, etc.).

I’ll give the guy credit, he does seem pretty genuinely broken up about it - I don’t think R. Kelly ever apologized, and his video was a FELONY. Chen probably needs to bring his career to the United States. At least we could get him on The Bachelor or make him Flava Flav’s sidekick.