Alan Tam Shrugs Off Being Spotted With Mistress While On Vacation
For the last twenty years, Alan Tam ( 譚詠麟) allocated his time between two women: his wife, Sally, and his mistress, Wendy. Last week, Sudden Weekly published photos of Alan and Wendy holding hands, while vacationing together in South Korea. Never before has Alan’s long-term affair with Wendy come to such prominence!
It was rumored that Sally was unable to bear children, thus prompting Alan to become involved with Wendy, who gave Alan a son. Photos of Alan’s illegitimate son, Tam Hiu Fung, appeared in tabloids in 2006. In the past, Alan was flamed for failing to publicly acknowledge his own son, an action which the 61-year-old appeared to be reversing recently.
In the beginning of March, Alan traveled to South Korea with Wendy and her mother. Local fans immediately recognized Alan, who did not try to hide the fact that he was with his mistress, Wendy. Alan continued holding Wendy’s hand, unafraid of outside judgment that may be placed upon his relationship with her.
Although Sally has been aware of Alan’s betrayal for years, Sally retreated further into her Buddhist studies and allegedly turned a “blind eye” over Alan’s commitment to his second family. Various speculations abound as to why Alan remained married to Sally, while his affections appeared to lean towards Wendy. It was rumored that Sally maintained good relations with Alan’s mother, thus shutting out Wendy’s chances of becoming the official “Mrs. Tam.” At the same time, Sally possessed ownership rights in over $500 million (HKD) properties, and perhaps had various financial entanglements with Alan which would be difficult to separate after many years together.
Yesterday, Alan appeared at TVB City due to TVB’s recent positive negotiations with the Hong Kong Recording Industry Alliance, which resulted in the appearance of many popular Hong Kong singers at the television studio recently. Asked about his earlier vacation with Wendy and their public display of affection, Alan did not shy away from the pointed questions. He joked and remarked that he still possessed market value; each time he had a new music album release, such tabloid news would surface. He stressed that this type of news was old news, postulating that his photos in South Korea were taken by a tourist.
Image source: Sudden Weekly
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Jayne: The reasons why Alan remains married to Sally while obviously spending more time with Wendy remain unclear. It may be financial entanglements. Would remaining married to Sally hurt her less? This arrangement has been going on for 20 years and the women have accepted it as okay, much as the four wives of Macau casino tycoon, Stanley Ho, are fine in sharing a husband.
I have no idea about Alan Tam having an affair with another woman.
Sally must be strong-hearted to swallow the truth over the years.
u got a point there. How would one not feeling jealous if love exists?
Or… maybe its just because they have lots of issue connected like money….
They are still together probably because of :-
1) money related issue. Which also involved fixed assets and etc.
2) Love still exist? (not sure)
3) already used to be one each other?
4) Family issue.
4) Can’t be disturbed by changing names on legal documents etc which usually is complicated.
Not surprise being that all his buddies have less than stellar history with women and are known womanizers. He and his buddies(Eric Tsang/ Jackie Chan) have no respect for marriage. That kid will need some serious therapy.
Its pretty much the same story in the Hong Kong entertainment industry…. not that surprising.
Yeah agree with you larry, not much of suprise from someone like Alan who belongs to the same league of EricTsang & jackie chan. I’ve a feeling that Michael Miu will soon join their league with a mistress to tag along.
In my case, I’m still surprised.. haha
He has a good image and talent in singing..
But, from now on, I have to change my perspective about him..
It is hard to stay faithful and have only one wife/husband in the circle and even real life. Temptation in the circle is even higher since you are always surrounded by so many attractive people and bump into new and acttracive people all the time… It makes it even harder to stay faithful and love only person even if you are married to them.
Add Kenny B to the list.
lol.. and let’s not forget about Jackie Chan~
wht happend about jackie chan? many wives?
He is also one of a kind. In last few years, he had committed an affair with a former beauty Queen resulting in an illegitimate daughter.
Not surprising at all. Pretty common in Chinese culture.
Well, in the West they just divorce their wife (say of 20 years) and marry another one. Is that a much better practice?
if you’re rich u can afford a couple of wives so this is not a problem with super celebrities
Totally agree. The rich one always manipulate others with money too.
So what’s new? Has been an open secret for many years now, except few have really seen Wendy.
So much for respect for ‘forever-25’ Principal Tam too, along with Big Brother of showbiz – Jackie Chan.
Why anyone should look up to them is really debatable. It depends on what you consider defines ‘a successful person’.
To me … they both are NOT.
Sally is Alan’s financial controller and manages his career. She is often behind the scenes at his concerts, arranging logistics. Wendy is just the one who does the wifely duties and is mother of his son.
The only ‘seemingly’ faithful one in the trio of good pals (Alan, Eric, Chan Pak Cheung) is ‘Ah Lek’ Chan Pak Cheung.
He has been with Sau-ku for years, and they go everywhere together.
nomad 822,
Agree with you that I also feel Ah lek is the most faithful one (atleast he hasn’t been caught cheating yet).
I actually do not see Alan and Jackie as one of the “succesful” model as a husband material. Both were neither a faithful or loyal husband and both cheated behind their spouse’s back.. funny thing is their spouses doesn’t it!
I actually never like them lol.
Nomad,
I do not know too much about Nat Chan Pak Cheung’s private life, but he appears to be salivating when he is near bikini girls in Miss Hong Kong pageants.
Jayne,
NAt appeared to be a funny guy who’s actually belong to the same league as Alan, Eric etc, nat could be pulling an act like salivating when he meet pretty sexy girls but he seems to be faithful to his wife since there were no pics of Nat and other women fooling around at least of now. Meanwhile friends like Alan and jackie are alway get caught by the papparazis fooling around with women.
Veejay,
So Nat may only look, but not cheat? Hmm…the salivating near bikini girls doesn’t give me a very positive impression though. Hehe innocent until proven guilty or caught by the paparazzi.
Jayne,
Some wives may not mind when their husbands showing interest in some women as long as they have a mutual trust on each other. While some will feel jealous and uneasy when their husband showing interest in other women. I’ve some male friends who admit that they often look and praise sexy women infront of their wives and the wives just take it as a joke. To me, as long as Nat is not caught with other girls, i’ll take him as innocent lol.. Maybe the salivating part is a bit of “unapproriate” since he’s a married man and should lil respect to his wife.. but overall, he’s a celebrity who will bump into pretty girls often and that’s unavoidable..
Well I think it is natural for men to salivate or get tempted when they are around so many young and attractive women.I feel that it is normal, but of course you should not act on it or do anything that you are not supposed to be doing. Women cheat as well so it is not just men.
I too agree with normad on Nat. So far, I’ve not heard of him having mistress, girlfriend, or fling. He only has Wong Hang Sau, his wife.
He once said in an interview that she brought him luck.
By the way cant believe Alan is 61!!!!
” The reasons why Alan remains married to Sally while obviously spending more time with Wendy remain unclear. It may be financial entanglements. Would remaining married to Sally hurt her less? This arrangement has been going on for 20 years and the women have accepted it as okay, much as the four wives of Macau casino tycoon, Stanley Ho, are fine in sharing a husband”
I think I can answer that. He wanted a child the wife could not give. So he had an affair resulting in the birth of the child he wanted. THe wife knew, probably agonised over it and then learned to accept it. I think why there was never a divorce was because he loves his wife, his wife loves him but then there’s the 3rd party he can’t abandon since she is the mother of his child. I don’t think it is ever about money. It is about love and responsibility.
Funn Lim, a normal woman would not agree to share husbands with other women. In Stanley’s case, it is very obvious that they are after his money.
Its not Sally’s fault either for unable to produce a son for him. There are actually other ways like surrogate mother, artificial insemination, etc… By having another woman, does it not hurt his beloved Sally? Thats not love. If you love someone, you will not cause any hurt to him/her..
There is not one normal way to feel or handle this situation. There are many type of women in many different culture who have different mindset. It is incorrect to say a ‘normal woman’ will agree to this or disagree to that.
I think love is such a over simplified term and there are differemt ways of looking at it.
Probably Sally ‘loves’ Alan alot more. At the same time Alan still ‘loves’ Sally.
Think of it the other way Stephanie. Maybe she loved him enough to endure this I suppose slap on the face? I do think of it as one. Irrespective of how I actually feel, I think Alan Tam is one lucky happy guy. His wife must be a very traditional woman, refusing to divorce and stick by his man. His mistress did not seek any recognition lawfully, so she must have loved him too. It is difficult to judge what a normal woman will agree, until I am in that situation. What is normal? What is abnormal?
Maybe it was an unplanned pregnancy and since she was pregnant, I feel he felt responsible towards the mother of his child as well. Maybe it will be more cruel to divorce the wife than for the wife to stay. Asian woman mentality especially the old fashioned ones are rather tricky but understandable.
The ‘normal woman’ i was referring to was an individual who will feel pain of getting hurt as a result of love, who will cry when their husband does not give them 100% attention and will get tired of the complicated relationship between 3 of them.
I totally agree with you Stephanie.
so it’s acceptable to cheat on your wife just because she can’t bear a child? what a load of ****! Where is the respect and trust for each other in marriage? What about the ‘in sickness and in health’? I agreed with stephanie. there are other options instead of cheating.
Snoopy, you understand the marriage vows and promises exists between a couple.
If you betray your husband/wife, that means you are not honoring your marriage vows even though one is unable to produce child.
In Alan’s case, the affair makes him to dishonor his promises.
Stephanie, exactly my sentiment!
Thanks. You understand my point here about marriage promises.
It certainly helps when there is lots of money involved.
Enough for everyone, so no one is ‘dumb’ enough to cause a scene.
I guess It’s better to be miserable but rich, than not.
Disloyal husband should prepare having pathetic life in his old age. The female just like the male baby making machine and the male is just like atm machine for the female.
What a modern term for male and female nowadays.
Sadly, what you said seems very true these days…
Give me a break this is the 20th century women now a days don’t tolerate this BS and shouldn’t. Cheating is not acceptable in a relationship or in a marriage. Imagine if Sally slept with another man and publicly humiliated Allan like the way he did to Sally then it’s a different story. Alan will probably divorce her to save face. It is obvious Sally has no right to even speak to Alan about it and their marriage was long broken because the trust and commitment is not there. Staying in a broken marriage for whatever reasons is simply being naive and not good for your mental health. Wonder if she pop pills everyday to calm herself down.
BTW it is the SPERM that determines the gender of the baby not the woman so in result it’s Alan’s fault so stop blaming the woman when you can’t get a boy. His behavior for his wife and daugther is despicable…
Sally should divorce this cheating scum and take half his money.