Canto-pop singer Alan Tam opens up about his decades of adultery in the hope it will persuade fans to be faithful to their partners
- ‘I hope nobody will follow what I did,’ Tam said of the affair he started with Wendy Chu after marrying Sally Yeung. It was because he wanted a child, he said
- He dated Chu, who bore him a son, since she ‘was a supportive woman who understood’ him, and did not let either woman go as ‘he felt the two of them were good’
Canto-pop singer Alan Tam Wing-lun has recently opened up about his extramarital affair with girlfriend Wendy Chu Wing-ting, saying that he pursued her despite being married to Sally Yeung Kit-mei because he wanted a child.
“It’s not good to have two wives,” Tam admitted in a recent interview with Hong Kong radio show Happy Daily. He said that he was speaking up about his affair now in the hopes that his fans would not follow in his footsteps.
“I’ve made them both suffer,” Tam said. “I hope nobody will follow what I did.”
Tam remains legally married to Yeung, although they have reportedly led separate lives for years.
The couple wed in 1981, with Tam saying theirs was “love at first sight”. The singer said he kept his marriage a secret to avoid affecting his career – their relationship was only revealed when Yeung’s father died in 1993 and Tam was listed in official documents as his son-in-law.