On 2 Oct last year, some local celebrities gathered for a birthday party.
Ordinarily, this wouldn’t make front-page news, but they had gathered in a group of 13, which exceeded the group size limit for social gatherings at the time.
Their offences only came to light after one of them posted a photo of the bash on social media.
Mediacorp later confirmed that that four of its artistes — Terence Cao, Shane Pow, Jeffrey Xu, and Sonia Chew — were part of the group of 13 people pictured.
Most of the individuals were fined, but now, a couple of them will be charged.
2 Men to Be Charged for Celebrity Birthday Party; 11 Others Fined
Two men who were involved in the illicit birthday celebration will be charged on 2 March with flouting Covid-19 safe distancing rules, according to TODAYonline.
We just don’t know who these two are.
In their statement, the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) did not identify the two individuals who will be charged.
It did say, however, that one of them is the 53-year-old owner of the residential unit on Daisy Road, where the birthday celebration allegedly took place.
By allowing 12 other people who were not members of his household to enter and remain at his home, the man had breached Covid-19 regulations.
At the time, Singapore was still in Phase 2 of its safe recovery, so individuals were not permitted to have more than five visitors in their residence.
The other man in trouble is one of the visitors. The 50-year-old will be charged for gathering outside his place of residence with 12 other people who were not from his household.
Wait, isn’t that what all the visitors did? Why is he getting charged and not them?
Well, the man had allegedly invited three of the visitors for the birthday gathering “despite knowing that doing so would cause the gathering to exceed the permissible number of individuals,” BCA said.
BCA said that in deciding the appropriate penalties for each individual, the authorities had assessed their “level of culpability in relation to the breach”.
This is why the other 11 errant individuals had each been issued with a composition fine of S$300 for being part of the social gathering.
Many of them apologised on social media, including 987FM’s Sonia Chew.
But she ended up getting dropped as the host of last year’s annual countdown show.
As for the rest of them, this incident hasn’t exactly been great for their image.
On Monday (1 Feb), Mediacorp said it cooperated fully with the authorities and has reminded their artistes to follow the prevailing rules.
“We do not condone the actions of the four artistes and the company has conducted an internal review and disciplinary actions will be taken” it said.
“Safety is a priority. We constantly brief and remind our artistes to adhere to safe management guidelines, both in their professional and personal capacities.”
Featured Image: Instagram (Jeffrey Xu)
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