Chinese Peeping

Chinese are spying on Victoria’s Secret lingerie show
By Oli Coleman

China has watchful eyes on the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show debacle in China is becoming increasingly bizarre.
While staffers for the lingerie giant scramble to get Monday’s show in Shanghai back on track after a string of problems obtaining visas for models and performers such as Katy Perry and Gigi Hadid — both of whom were denied — as well as permits for press, they’ve been even more hampered by the fact that e-mails of VS show staffers and production crew are being monitored by Chinese authorities.
TV and media-industry insiders who are desperately trying to figure out what’s going on amid the production chaos are getting frustrated by messages from colleagues in China simply saying that they can’t speak frankly about the issues with the government because their communications are being watched.
As The Post has reported, Perry — who was booked to perform during the glitzy annual show — had her visa application declined because she once showed support for Taiwan (which is in an independence struggle with China) during a Beijing concert.
Victoria’s Secret Angel Hadid has been rebuffed by officials because she once drew criticism for posing insensitively with a cookie shaped like the Buddha. 

Plus, fellow Angel Adriana Lima’s visa application has been imperiled by an unknown “diplomatic issue.”

Said a source about the VS undie surveillance, “They want to discuss what’s going on as far as replacements for those denied visas and alternative arrangements, but they have to be tight-lipped because it seems that the government is watching their e-mails,” said a source.
Media traveling to China for the event have also been thwarted by the authorities. 

We’re told that many fashion bloggers have been denied visas, and TV producers have discovered that they need permits to shoot outside of the Mercedes-Benz Arena, where the show — which will, fingers-crossed, air on CBS later this month — is taking place. 

As one source put it, “If you’re going to China you want to show that you’re in China!”
Victoria’s Secret didn’t get back to us.