TVB actress and new mother Regina Ho recently appeared on a TVB variety show, where one of the topics of discussion was "angelic exes and devilish exes".
The 32-year-old revealed that when she broke up with a former boyfriend, he demanded reimbursement for a luxury handbag he had given her during their relationship.
According to Ho, the handbag was worth HK$26,000 (about RM13,500).
Fellow guests on the show, including Jacquelin Ch'ng and Venus Chi, were stunned by the revelation.
Ch'ng wondered whether the demand was a ploy by the ex-boyfriend to win Ho back, but Ho dismissed the idea, saying such a request would only make any woman angrier.
Even while recounting the incident on the show, the News Queen 2 actress appeared visibly upset.
As the incident took place at her home and she did not have enough cash on hand, Ho took out her cheque book and wrote him a cheque for HK$30,000 (about RM16,000).
“Keep the change. And leave this instant,” she recalled telling him.
Ch'ng and Chi applauded her response.
Ho later found lasting happiness.
The first runner-up in the 2017 Miss Hong Kong pageant married her husband on Dec 16, 2023, and the couple welcomed their first child, a daughter, in 2025.
Elsewhere in the programme, Ho shared a story involving one of her husband's friends while discussing men who frequently go out drinking together.
She revealed that the friend would regularly call her husband out for drinks whenever he argued with his wife.
Initially, Ho was understanding and felt friends should support one another.
However, after the situation repeated itself just two weeks later, she stepped in and told the friend directly: “Stop going out to talk about it. Come to my house instead and I'll help you sort it out.”
Ho ended up acting as an unofficial marriage counsellor, listening to his problems until 2am and helping him work through the issues in his marriage.
Laughing about the experience, she admitted she never expected things to turn out that way.
