Popular China ex-child star embroiled in video-timing row after suffering brain tumour, shares photos of shaved head, says ‘not to worry’
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An actress who was once China’s most famous child star has unwittingly become involved in a controversy following the release of photographs of her shaved head after she had surgery to remove a brain tumour.
Gao Junyu, 22, is known in mainland China as the “point reading machine girl” due to a 2009 commercial she appeared in advertising a study-assistance machine targeting young students, reported Red Star News.
The advertisement was so widely circulated, the English words “so easy” that Gao used in it became a well-used phrase in China.
When videos of Gao with a shaved head went viral on mainland social media earlier this month, the surroundings indicated that they had in fact been captured in September last year.
It then became clear that a Hangzhou-based company to which Gao is signed as an artist released them this month without her consent.
The authorities said the company, Huo Ran Kai Lang Science and Technology, who have apologised, will face legal sanction.