According to various reports, on August 26, Zhao Wei, a well-known female artist in mainland China, was banned from the entire network. Zhao Wei’s actor information has been deleted from the profiles of many of the film and television works he starred in, and multiple film and television platforms cannot search for “Zhao Wei”.
Mainland netizens discovered that the classic film and television dramas “Returning the Pearl” (1, 2), “Deep Love”, “Mom in Beijing”, “Tiger Mom Cat Dad”, “Painted Skin 2”, etc. starring Zhao Wei suddenly collectively Zhao Wei’s name was deleted from the cast list.
At around 10 o’clock on the evening of the 26th, all Zhao Wei’s works and variety show videos she participated in were removed from the shelves of the entire network.
In addition, Zhao Wei’s Weibo Chaochao was also closed, and her personal Weibo was not updated for many days. The dynamic stayed on the CCTV’s “Anti-Japanese” Weibo posted on August 15th.
For Zhao Wei’s sudden ban, NetEase’s “Guangying Xintiandi” analysis may have three reasons:
One is related to the scandal broke out by the male artist Zhang Zhehan under Zhao Wei’s. Recently, Zhang Zhehan went to Japan to attend a friend’s wedding a few years ago and his old photos of sightseeing at the Yasukuni Shrine were exposed by netizens, triggering a siege by the Chinese Communist Party’s official media and the Internet. Although Zhang Zhehan apologized through Weibo several times, he was still not forgiven by the outside world.
Zhang Zhehan was banned overnight, the more than 20 brands he endorsed were all terminated, and all previous episodes and show invitations were also suspended.
Secondly, after the Zhang Zhehan incident, Zhao Wei’s old news was exposed again. In the early years, she had appeared in activities under the Japanese military flag and was splashed with dung. She had publicly apologized for her improper dressing.
Now these old photos have been turned out by netizens again, immediately arousing public opinion. As a result, Zhao Wei was temporarily cancelled from the cover of a fashion magazine, and all her starring works were also removed from the online platform.
The third is economic issues. Zhao Wei and her husband Huang Youlong, a wealthy businessman, were involved in the acquisition of Wanjia Culture in 2017. The two were accused of using shell companies to acquire Wanjia Culture, a listed company with a market value of 10 billion, which seriously misled the market and investors. In the end, the acquisition case was stopped, Zhao Wei and his wife were fined, banned from entering the securities market for five years, and were sued by stockholders collectively.
However, some netizens broke the news that the ban may be related to Jack Ma. Jack Ma’s Alibaba continued to be purged by the authorities, and the involvement was widespread.
A post on the Twitter account “Chinese News” stated: #赵薇 got involved in politics, her name was deleted by works such as “Huanzhugege”, and Chaohua was also blocked! Including but not limited to Huan Zhu Ge Ge, Deep Rain and Meng Meng, Beijing Moment, Tiger Mom Cat Dad, Painted Skin 2 and so on… There is no more Zhao Wei’s name in the cast list. Its artist Zhang Zhehan was banned, and Zhao Wei’s “stock market” and “military flag costume” incidents were hotly discussed by netizens. Zhao Wei is a close friend of Ma Yun and Ren Zhiqiang’s friend, and participated in the IPO feast of Ant Financial.
In her early years, Zhao Wei became popular for her role as the little swallow in “Returning the Pearl,” and later established a film and television company, acting as both an actor and a director, and was active in variety shows and film and television circles. She was suddenly blocked by the entire Internet, and related information was posted on Weibo’s hot search.
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