HE CAN DO no wrong. Despite his rebellious image and an attitude to match, Canto-pop bad boy Nicholas Tse Ting-fung is indisputably a local icon worshipped by thousands.
In a survey about local teenagers' idols conducted by City University earlier this year, Tse was voted second-most popular after Canto-pop diva Kelly Chen Wai-lam.
Whatever he wears, says or does - whether it's good or bad - he finds resonance among his hordes of teenage fans.
But Tse hopes youngsters will 'find themselves', and 'not just be affected by others'.
'I would also embrace the thoughts and attitudes of people that I like or who are influential to me, but I won't be manipulated by them,' the 21-year-old actor-musician told Young Post.
'As a public figure, what I say and do and how I behave, to a certain extent, will be scrutinised or even exaggerated [by the media]. And that would more or less have some impact on young people.'