Michelle Yim rumoured to be planning marriage to late boyfriend

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Michelle Yim rumoured to be planning marriage to late boyfriend


HONG KONG: Hong Kong actress Michelle Yim is rumoured to be planning to wed her late boyfriend, soccer player-turned-actor, Wan Chi-Keung, said Hong Kong media reports citing a source who claimed to be Yim's close friend.

Wan died from nasopharyngeal cancer on February 16. He was 53.

The source said though the veteran actress looked strong and composed in public, and has continued to turn up for work daily on the set of her upcoming serial "Women Hurt The Most", she has been privately grieving Wan's death.

Yim has reportedly been crying herself to sleep and was so upset after Wan's cremation on Saturday that she had to be helped out of the funeral home.

Yim's friend claimed that Yim is planning to marry her deceased boyfriend in hopes of being with him in the afterlife, as she felt guilty for turning down his numerous marriage proposals and putting off their nuptials until it was too late.

Hong Kong celebrity fortune-teller Szeto Fat Ching said the marriage rites for Yim to marry Wan will see "his tablet or a cockerel used in place of the groom while a priest prepares the marriage documents and makes offerings to Heaven and Earth".

Szeto also pointed out that marrying a deceased man is much more complicated than marrying someone who is still among the living as "'the living party' would need to get a priest to 'annul' the marriage properly should she change her mind, or else the 'deceased party' will harass her and adversely affect her health and family".

"It is not something to be taken lightly," said Szeto.

If these reports turn out to be true, Yim will be the second Hong Kong celebrity to marry a deceased person.

Yip Sai Wing, a member of the rock band Beyond was the first celebrity to do so. Yip married his girlfriend shortly after she passed away and even prepared a ring for her.

- CNA/ha