Controversial blogger and NUS law scholar Alvin Tan has updated the YouTube channel he co-owns with his girlfriend Vivian Lee.
Fresh from the controversy, the pair said that they wanted to address questions they have received from fans and netizens since explicit pictures and videos of them caused public furore earlier this week.
"We're still smiling. Obviously things between us are still fine," Tan, 24, said.
The pair have since shut down their sex blog, although they insist that it was not a decision they wanted to make.
Appearing shy at the beginning of the video, Vivian, 23, said: "We actually shut down the blog because of family pressure."
The couple said that they succumbed when family and friends placed pressure on them to remove blog and postings.
However, this does not mean that they will stop recording and taking pictures of themselves in the nude or having sex.
"Yes, we will continue doing what we love doing," Tan said. Nevertheless, he added that they will not continue to make their sexual videos available to the public at this point of time.
The couple encouraged people to sign up at their blog to receive updates on their content.
Despite the public outcry they have caused, Alvin said that his parents are more concerned for his well-being rather than what he did.
Vivian, on the other hand, is not so lucky. "It is more of what you call a 'face' thing," she said.
Alvin added at this point that Lee's parents were giving her "hell".
They further added that the media attention has not affected them negatively, but that they do enjoy the limelight they have been put in.
"We really appreciate the media attention actually because previously we could do and say things and not a lot of people would care. But now a lot of people seem to care about what we do and say, or at least temporarily," Alvin said.
"We're not going to run away from the limelight. We want to get comfortable with controversy, we want to learn how to manage media attention. So I don't see how our lives have been negatively affected by this saga."
Vivian has thousands of friend requests while he has had hundreds and many have sent them sexual propositions. They did not say if they would accept any of these requests.
One question read out was if Vivian was a transsexual, to which she replied saying that she menstruates every month and is "100 per cent woman".
When asked if they were in legal trouble, Alvin said they were not. He also said that comments about them breaching any laws were just "song and dance and hot air".
Alvin also expressed that he and Vivian did not feel there was a need to make any public apologies because he did not feel that there was anything to apologise for.
Before the end of the video, Alvin told viewers to follow the couple's Twitter account and to follow news of them on the media.
-AsiaOne
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