Singing 'idol's' mother carefully guides son's showbiz career
She advises him on how to spend his money and carefully plots the next steps in a 'career' built on the shifting sands of reality television.
She tells reporters not to ask him about his childhood in Hong Kong and directs a photographer not to shoot her famous son from below head level, during a press call at a bar in Tsim Sha Tsui yesterday, as it will make him look 'ugly'.
So it is no surprise that William Hung's big screen debut will be in a comedy about a mother who is 'crazy about her son', who goes missing in Guangdong.
Hung wanted to reveal more about the film when he spoke to reporters yesterday but his mother, who only gives her name as Mrs Hung, tells him to stop as the film could lose its box-office appeal if he gives too much away.
'My mother is my manager, my father is my agent,' Hung says as his mother sits nearby.
'They choose the jobs which give me a good image. Of course, I make the final decision.'