Sex, lies and videotape Beijing-style

IT was meant to be one of the highlight’s of China Central Television’s 2008 calendar — the rebranding of the State station to coincide with the Olympics.

But instead it turned into a national scandal, after the wife of a leading sports presenter gatecrashed the event to publicly accuse her husband of adultery.

A video clip of Zhang Bin’s wife Hu Ziwei commandeering a microphone at a China Central Television (CCTV) presentation of its coverage plans has become one of the most viewed items on the internet after it was removed from China’s main websites.