Yaguchi Mari got her start as a singer in pop group Morning Musume in the late nineties, and has since enjoyed a successful career as a musician, actress, and TV personality. However, lately she’s been better known in the media for her scandalous personal life, after Josei Seven magazine revealed on May 21 that her equally famous husband Masaya Nakamura had found her in bed with a model named Kenzo Umeda.
When Mari Yaguchi missed a regular live TV appearance on May 24, citing poor health, she drew scornful reactions from both her fellow TV personality Ariyoshi Hiroiki and from the Internet world. We’ve recently seen other examples of how unforgiving Japanese netizens can be when it comes to celebrities with questionable morals, and now Yaguchi is receiving the same treatment. The convenient timing of her “poor health” as a way of avoiding her public humiliation is a little too good to be true, and while the media may have accepted her excuse, netizens aren’t buying it.
From Yahoo! Japan:
Yaguchi Mari Misses Appearance Due to Poor Health, Ariyoshi Expresses Dissatisfaction With An “Ugh”
After 30-year-old TV personality Yaguchi Mari’s recently reported separation from her husband, actor Nakamura Masaya (27), due to her affair with a model, she missed her regular Friday live performance on NTV’s “Hirunandesu!” (“It’s noon!”) on May 24. Announcer Miura Asami explained her absence by saying “She’s absent due to illness, and will only be appearing in video segments.”
A lot of attention was being focused on what Yaguchi was saying in her live TV appearances, but on this day she was absent due to poor health. When Ariyoshi Hiroiki made an audibly dissatisfied “Ugh” sound at the reason for her absence, MC Nanbara Kiyotaka retorted, “What was that ‘Ugh’ supposed to mean?” Ariyoshi laughed and responded, “No, no, that’s what I thought.”
What’s more, that same day model Kawakita Mayuko was also away from the studio. When Nanbara lamented, “It’s just a bunch of old men today,” Hisamoto Masami frantically objected, “No way, there are old ladies here too!” and got a lot of laughs.
Comments from Yahoo! Japan:
ダイヤモンド不愉快（mqg…）さん:
She’s probably faking it
メッシとは友達になりたくない（kyo…）さん:
What a convenient illness (笑)
登坂車線で追越!?（tun…）さん:
“Poor health,” huh? (笑)
rymu*****（egd…）さん:
She should be kicked off the show already
春ですね。（sak…）さん:
She’s running away, isn’t she?
虎下（mas…）さん:
She’s even worse than [actor and notorious two-timer Shun] Shioya. The stupid media should be flaming her more!
takeshima（cho…）さん:
She opened her hole down there, but her hole up there stays firmly closed.
パピコ（y_p…）さん:
A lie this obvious is pretty rare. w
jet（jet…）さん:
Even if she’s perfectly talented, I think she’s ruined now.
みきゅん（mik…）さん:
If she’s running away, she should resign from all the TV programs!
sak*z*ns*ze（sak…）さん:
Ariyoshi’s out to get her (笑)
スイクン（sue…）さん:
In reality, she admitted to adultery. And letting her personal life interfere with her professional life is even worse for her image.
パピコ（y_p…）さん:
First she got involved in a situation that was none of her business, and now she’s running away because of it? w
mon*uk*0531（mon…）さん:
Seems like Yaguchi’s cheating
半死半生（shi…）さん:
She can’t run away, she’s already completely done for.
mf8（mf8…）さん:
You can come out in public already.
完全体（inm…）さん
She won’t escape! Coward.
ニーニャ（aki…）さん:
Don’t try to run away!!
panＴline（hir…）さん:
She’s over as a performer!
とらきち（tor…）さん
She fled, didn’t she.
