Joey Thye Blocks Aggressive Pursuer

The 30-year-old Joey Thye (戴祖儀), known for her sweet looks and long, slim legs and often dubbed a “goddess” by male fans, has been in showbiz for seven years but her love life has never really taken off.

Joey Posts on Valentine’s Day

Recently on Valentine’s Day, she posted a photo on social media showing herself leaning against a “boyfriend-material chest” while being gently patted on the head. She captioned it: “Happy Valentine’s Day. Boyfriend-material chest. Fell in love.” Netizens immediately flooded the comments with congratulations, thinking she had finally gone public with a relationship—only for the next photo to reveal that the “boyfriend” was actually Jinny Ng (吳若希), giving everyone a laugh.

Fearful Seeing Him Even Now

Recently, Joey appeared on a YouTube online talk show, where she revealed that over the past two years she had been relentlessly harassed by a male colleague in the industry. She shared that she met the man through a dinner gathering with friends. In her words, he wasn’t the “handsome” type, but he had a funny personality. At first, she found him interesting and even brought him into her friend group to hang out. However, after knowing each other for only a week, after they finished a mahjong session, he suddenly sent her a long message confessing his feelings.

Joey, who is straightforward by nature, cut him off immediately: “Sorry, don’t waste your time on me, because I only like handsome guys.” She rejected him outright.

Normally, someone would take the hint and back off after being turned down—but he didn’t. Instead, he escalated the situation and began bombarding her even more. Joey said: “Every day he’d send messages like clocking in for work. He treated the chat like a diary—showing up once in the morning, afternoon, and night—and he kept asking me out for drives.”

What frightened her most was that he even tracked down her private studio. “Luckily I wasn’t alone—my friends were there. Otherwise I really wouldn’t have known what to do,” she said. She tried to avoid him and leave, but he continued to cling to her. By the second and third time, she was completely fed up.

Joey recalled that he demanded to talk to her alone, but she refused on the spot because she didn’t feel safe. The man then became somewhat emotionally unstable, insisting that he “missed her so much,” speaking in an agitated, clingy way. Joey finally snapped and exploded in front of a group of friends: “I feel like this behavior isn’t that different from a murderer’s—it’s terrifying, like you’ve completely lost it!”

He shot back: “I’m not crazy!”

Joey then turned around and left, and blocked him on every possible contact channel. Although she successfully cut off communication, she admitted that even now, if she sees him from afar at public events, she still feels “a little scared.”

During the show, the host jokingly guessed the man might be Bob Lam (林盛斌), but Joey immediately denied it. Based on Joey’s description, this “obsessive pursuer” has three key traits: he is a male colleague who appears on-camera, his looks are average (definitely not in the “handsome” category), and he is not the “thick eyebrows and big eyes” type.

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