Gigi Chao tells daddy to retract offer of HK$500m to any man who will marry her
Gigi Chao, who recently announced she had married her girlfriend, wants her father, Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, to retract his HK$500 million bounty for a suitable man to marry her.
The highly public exchange via the media, and the flood of proposals from all over the world in response to Chao's offer, have come before the pair have had time to talk it over face to face.
But Gigi still found time yesterday to wish her father happy birthday - he turns 77 today - and to thank him for being "sweet".
The offer by Chao, owner of Cheuk Nang (Holdings), came days after Gigi announced that she had married her long-time girlfriend, Sean Eav, five months ago. Since then, around 1,500 friend requests, proposals and messages have flooded into her social network accounts.
But her playboy father, although sounding stressed, insisted the plan to find her a husband must go on. "It just offers her one more choice in life. She is in charge to make the final decision," he said. "People have been mistaken in thinking that I would pick the man for her. How is it possible? It's not and I won't stop her from seeing anyone."
