Fann Wong and son climb only 5m of the Great Wall of China
The Straits Times|July 12, 2024
Singaporean actress Fann Wong and her son tried, but did not manage, to be heroes.
Jan Lee
Fann Wong and son climb only 5m of the Great Wall of China

The 53-year-old star took Zed, who will turn 10 in August, on a holiday to Beijing recently and they visited one of the country's most famous sights - the Badaling section of the Great Wall of China.

In a video posted to Chinese social media site Xiaohongshu on July 9, Fann detailed their outing to a tourist hot spot - a steep slope termed the Haohanpo, or Heroes' Slope. She wrote in the caption of the video: "Zed was super excited. Before we set off, he kept saying, 'Today, I'll be a hero.""

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