Wealthy people are definitely different. Not content with having her father publicly “out” her and drag her through the world’s press by offering a HK$500 million bounty for a husband to make her straight, lesbian Gigi Chao has now given a full sit-down talk to Hong Kong Tatler. Sorry, that should read full sit down helicopter ride, with pilot Gigi at the controls as she whisks the scribe over dad Cecil’s Pok Fu Lam spread Villa Cecil, which also doubles as her helicopter pad.
What emerges from the several pages of surprisingly unsycophantic prose is how sanguine Gigi claims to be about something that must have caused her considerable embarrassment. And for most daughters, would have been enough to sour relations with Papa for years. Not so Gigi.
Her description of the events last September which followed her low key Paris civil partnership wedding to fellow lesbian and partner of seven years Sean Eav will no doubt raise a few eyebrows.
Bachelor Cecil, 76, warned she’d never be accepted in high society unless she was married to a man.