UPDATE: Call this strike two.
Fresh off his deportation from Thailand, Gary Glitter has once again been denied entree abroad, this time into Hong Kong.
Chinese authorities told the U.K. Foreign Office shortly after his Wednesday night reaching that Glitter, who has so far refused to return to his native England, was a image non grata in the region and had been barred from entering Hong Kong.
"It is a matter for the Chinese authorities to determine what action they submit now," a British official told the BBC.
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Gary Glitter's fear of flying has apparently flown away.
After an hourslong standoff in a Bangkok airport, which began with a brief stop for the recently sprung British glam rocker and included the feigning of a kernel attack and a refusal to board a Britain-bound plane, Glitter has at long last agreed to exit Thailand.
The glam cradle, who was released Tuesday from a Vietnam prison house after service of process three age on child-molestation charges, was expected to make merely a brief pit layover in Bangkok before continuing back to his native England Wednesday. But afterward landing in Thailand, he announced he didn't design on leaving.
Because officials declined to rent him into the country�the head of Bangkok's immigration police aforementioned the singer "poses a threat to domestic morality"�Glitter was left with no choice merely to be sequestered in the transit lounge at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport�until, that is, a host of medical maladies apparently began to surface.
While in the aerodrome, the 64-year-old, who was convicted in 2006 of committing "salacious acts" with two prepubertal girls, complained to officials of an earache and was brought to the airport clinic. The '80s star, whose real refer is Paul Francis Gadd, later claimed he was having a heart attack.
"We are blackball entry to Paul Francis Gadd and will be deporting him to his home commonwealth, England, categorically and even if he does non wish to board the plane," the Thai immigration police said in a statement.
"We are now waiting to return him to England as soon as possible."
Officials state Glitter has now in agreement to fly out of Thailand tonight�after being threatened with farther jail time in their notorious 40-to-a-room Immigration Detention Center. Although other countries are improbable to grant the "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" purveyor entry in the wake of his negative publicity, it remains ill-defined whether England is in fact his final destination.
"I'm not departure back to London," he told officials, per the London Times. "You can't make me. I've done my time. I'm a free man."
Glitter, who will be constrained to show as a sex offender once he returns to the U.K., does non want to be treated like a pariah by his countrymen.
"After our last talk with him, he agreed to go to another body politic in Asia," Col. Voravat Amornvivat, spokesman for the immigration service, told the Daily Telegraph. "Thai Airways is making the arrangements now."
(Originally published on Aug. 20, 2008 at 8:28 a.m. PT)
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