Gov. Joey Salceda lambasted actor Xian Lim for refusing to promote Albay when he attended at Fiesta Tsinoy Albay. Based on a report, a staff of Tourism gave a t-shirt to the actor but he refused it to wear. Then, Xian said, “I’m not here to promote Albay”.
Salceda posted his reaction on his
Twitter account about the incident. He said that he can’t forgive Xian for what
he did against the people of Albay. The
governor said that they were expected more better from Xian, for he is not a
terrorist, but just an actor. Salceda reminds that they already hired Xian in
2011 in their event. That was the time that his talent was only 75 thousand.
Now, they paid him 350,000 pesos for his guesting in Fiesta Tsinoy Albay. It
seems that the governor wanted to say that they were not deserved to got that
kind of treatment.
After Xian heard about the violent
reaction of the governor, he asked an apology to Salceda and to the people of
Albay for the mess that he caused with them. He explained that he didn’t wear
the t-shirt because it there will be a conflict in his endorsement. For he is
an endorser of a t-shirt brand. Xian said that he explained it in a nice way
contrary to the report that he became rude to one of the tourism officers in
Albay. The actor emphasized that he love Albay and its people.