Ma Yili's father says leave couple alone

Actor Wen Zhang and his actress wife Ma Yili attend a film festival in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, in 2012. Wen made headlines recently after he admitted having an affair with another actress. [Photo / Xinhua]

A Weibo user who claimed to be the father of Ma Yili, a Chinese actress whose husband was exposed as cheating on his wife, on Monday called on media to stop probing the couple's domestic affairs on his Weibo account, a Twitter-like social networking site.

"My daughter thanks you for exposing his affairs, you are doing a public scrutiny job, but we want to handle the following things ourselves...... your pursuing this is making it harder...... do you want them to divorce?" The anguished Weibo post urged Southern Metropolis Entertainment Weekly, which exposed the affair, to stop hyping the matter.

Wen Zhang, a well-known actor, made headlines recently after he admitted having an affair with another actress.