Cung Le, the Vietnamese-born sanda champion, will headline the first Ultimate Fighting Championship event to be staged in China this week. In a testosterone-fuelled spectacular in Macau, Le (above left) - who says he was discriminated against as a boy after moving to America - will aim to use his mixed martial arts skills to pulverise another man inside an octagonal cage. Le appeared in the 2009 movie Bodyguards and Assassins, in which he first worked with Hong Kong martial arts superstar Donnie Yen …
The former stuntman is now an acclaimed action choreographer and movie producer, and one of the most highly paid actors in Asia. He is credited with popularising the traditional style of wing chun following his movie portrayal of Ip Man, Bruce Lee's grandmaster. Yen has signed on to star alongside Canto-pop star Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi in the remake of the American movie Mr and Mrs Smith. Yen will take the role of "Mr", formerly played by one Brad Pitt …
The man who had to settle for Ms Angelina Jolie is passionate about design and architecture, and formed the collaborative Make It Right Foundation five years ago. The project has the noble aim of rehousing 150 families in New Orleans affected by Hurricane Katrina. So it was a great surprise last month to see the obviously bright actor spouting a load of old eco-hippy nonsense from within a poorly lit cellar as part of a new, and now much-ridiculed advertising campaign for Chanel No 5 …