40-year-old Edison Chen gets age-shamed

Los Angeles — It is not the first time that Hong Kong star Edison Chen got age-shamed by netizens. In 2020, the 40-year-old did a photoshoot wearing Givenchy and netizens commented that the star looked like an “uncle going to a park” in the photos. Chen uploaded a new photo posing with his supermodel wife Qin Shupei this week at an LA Lakers game and it became a new subject for his haters to carry on the nasty age-shaming talk.

According to 8days.sg, they commented on his “receding hairline” and “bald spots” and pointed out that he is past his prime. One netizen even said that Chen now looks like “an uncle who drinks beer at 1 pm with the rest of the neighbourhood uncles”.

The actor has not starred in any project for years as he is now focused on his family and his clothing labels, yet netizens are still expecting Chen to look movie-star perfect.

Born on October 7, 1980 Edison Chen Koon-hei is a Canadian-born Hong Kong actor, singer, rapper, fashion designer and entrepreneur.  Chen is the co-founder of CLOT, a Hong Kong-based streetwear and fashion label. Debuting in 1999, he released multiple Cantopop and Mandopop albums under the record company Emperor Entertainment Group, before releasing Please Steal This Album in 2004, the first of many Chinese-language hip-hop albums.

On February 21, 2008, he announced that he intended to step away “indefinitely” from the Hong Kong entertainment industry due to a sex photo scandal, in which numerous explicit photographs of Chen and several Hong Kong actresses were published online. He returned in 2010 but other than a brief cameo in the 2014 film Golden Chickensss, he did not make a complete comeback to the Hong Kong film industry until 2016./TISG