{"id":1949335,"date":"2025-08-08T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1949335"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:56:08","slug":"awesome-tv-sues-3-local-celebrities-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/awesome-tv-sues-3-local-celebrities-for-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome TV sues 3 local celebrities for defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Awesome TV said all content aired on its channel was produced by external production houses, and that contractual and payment matters were the responsibility of those companies.<\/p>\n

PETALING JAYA<\/span>: Awesome TV has filed a defamation suit against three local celebrities over allegations on social media that the broadcaster failed to pay for their appearances on its programmes.<\/div>\n

The suit, filed through law firm Shafie & Co, names Amirullah Azmi, better known as Amir Raja Lawak; Ikhtiarudin Naina Mohamad (Mamak Puteh); and Abu Musarrif Abu Bakar (Abu Mamu) as defendants.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Awesome TV said all content aired on its channel was produced by external production houses, and that contractual and payment matters involving talent were the responsibility of those companies.<\/p>\n

It said the alleged defamatory statements has damaged the company\u2019s image and reputation.<\/p>\n

Awesome TV also criticised Bukit Bendera MP Syerleena Abdul Rashid for raising the matter in Parliament without verifying the facts, saying her remarks had caused misunderstandings and misrepresented the broadcaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an elected representative, she should have investigated the matter thoroughly before issuing any statements,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The company added that it takes a serious view of any baseless claims or attempts to tarnish its reputation, and will defend its rights through legal channels.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Syerleena called for stronger institutional and financial support for the creative industry, urging the government to emulate countries like South Korea, which have gained global influence through cultural exports.<\/p>\n

She told the Dewan Rakyat that Malaysian artistes were still being forced to plead for what should be rightfully theirs.<\/p>\n

She cited Amirullah\u2019s case, saying he had to publicly appeal to a local broadcaster for RM18,000 in overdue payments to help cover his father\u2019s cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.freemalaysiatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Awesome TV said all content aired on its channel was produced by external production houses, and that contractual and payment matters were the responsibility of those companies. PETALING JAYA: Awesome TV has filed a defamation suit against three local celebrities over allegations on social media that the broadcaster failed to pay for their appearances on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1949336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Awesome-TV-sues-3-local-celebrities-for-defamation.webp.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}