Marco also opened up about his breakup with Hongkong actress Joyce Tang, 45. The two were once TVB’s golden couple and dated for close to a decade before they split in 2007.
According to Marco, he and Joyce never had plans to take their relationship to the next level. Then, all of a sudden, they “lost their feelings” for each other, as if — in Marco’s words — they’d “been married for 90 years”.
“I never thought about getting married ‘cos I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between what’s acting and what’s real,” he explained. “People might think I’m just making excuses, but I really did love [Joyce]. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been together for nine years.”
While he was aware that everyone was looking forward to them getting married, he just wanted to be “an ordinary person” and found himself distancing himself from the relationship the more popular Joyce got.
“In the end, I decided to let go so I wouldn’t bring her down. She was actually the victim in all this ‘cos she really loved me, but I wasn’t good enough for her.”
Joyce went on to wed Canon executive Matthew Chu in 2013, and Marco said that “seeing them happy makes [him] very happy” as well.