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Jack Neo breaks silence and drama unfolds at press conference

“I’m not an artiste so I don’t know how to face the media. [Because] I love Jack, I love my marriage, I love my family, I’ve been hurt deeply so please leave me alone.”

“I really need [all] your blessings,” a weeping Mdm Irene Kng pleaded before she stood up to leave and suddenly fell in a faint on her way to the exit.

The sudden collapse of Mdm Kng triggered the cohort of media to rush forward for pictures of the scene. The commotion turned into dramatic mayhem when Jack let out a loud yell for the media to make way for her exit. Almost like a scene out of Jack’s movie, Ah Nan (John Cheng), an artiste from the “Liang Jian Ban” (J-Team) dashed forward and shouted to the media to “go away”.

This morning at a packed auditorium at Scorpio East Building, Jack Neo, Singapore’s…

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March 11th, 2010

Jack Neo had previous marriage

Adding to the controversy surrounding his alleged affairs with other women which are said to be a dozen, there are now speculations that disgraced local filmmaker Jack Neo’s marriage to Mdm Irene Kng is actually his second.

An industry insider revealed that Jack had been married to another woman, who was not from showbiz, in April1981. His then-wife subsequently contracted cancer and was hospitalised to receive treatment.

The source said that shortly after she was admitted into hospital, Jack had divorced her. He could not withstand the mental stress and decided to leave her.

Jack, 50, met his current wife, Irene, at a departmental store and the pair tied the knot in October 1998.

The director and 2005 Cultural Medallion recipient became embroiled in a media scandal after news of his two-year affair with freelance actress-model Wendy Chong, 22, was released last Saturday. Wendy had gone to his…

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March 11th, 2010

Shower scene with Zoe leaves Kenny Ho "red-faced"

Even with 30 years of acting experience behind him, Kenny Ho is jittery like a new schoolboy about bathing local actress Zoe Tay in their new movie.

The Hong Kong veteran actor plays the husband of Zoe in Love Cuts, a homegrown production between Clover Films and the Health Promotion Board, which aims to raise awareness about regular breast screenings.

The shower scenes are not so much sensual as they are necessary, since the female lead suffers breast cancer and undergoes chemotherapy.

Kenny has acted in several movies and TV serials in his career that Zoe, 42, herself admitted that she “watched his shows since young.” She commented that her co-star is “very easy to get along with.”

He said that he would “turn red-faced” for the scenes where he has to bathe his reel wife.

“But it’s just acting,” he added. “Once I’m in character, when the…

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March 11th, 2010

Leon Lai forgets about his wedding anniversary

Hong Kong celebrities Leon Lai and Gaile Lok got hitched on the sly in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 9, 2008. Their wedding was exposed by the Hong Kong paparazzi in July last year after they uncovered Andy Lau’s hush-hush marriage to his Malaysian ex-beauty queen girlfriend-now-wife, Carol Choo.

At the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival held a few days ago in Tsim Tsa Shui, Hong Kong, two movies, Fire of Conscience, and Love In A Puff, were officially released.

Hong Kong Heavenly King Leon Lai was reminded of his 2nd wedding anniversary celebrations by members of the press when they asked of celebration plans of the momentous occasion. Leon, 43, then briefly glanced at his watch and said, “Oh, that’s right!”

When reporters asked Leon if he remembers the date, he smilingly said, “That’s because there is work to do today. There are promotional activities at…

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March 11th, 2010

Why the Wonder Girls have Nobody to love

Hollywood hunks like Johnny Depp, Hugh Jackman, and Robert Pattison have found fans in Korean girl group The Wonder Girls. But men not blessed in the genetics department needn’t fret. These girls are equally open to just about anybody and everybody as Park Ye-eun (better known as Yenny) says, “We don’t really care about races or colours.”

But so far, their love lives have been anything but colourful, “We haven’t really met boys in the states. We are quite busy touring all the states (in America),” she continued to explain.

Currently busy with the promotional activities for their latest English single, Nobody, the girls (Park Ye-eun, Min Sun Ye, Ahn Sohee, Kim Yubin, Yu Hae Lim) have their hands full preparing for the May/June worldwide release of their upcoming music album. It doesn’t help that it will be recorded with songs in three different languages (Korean, English, and…

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March 11th, 2010

Mark Lee to leave J Team and start his own company

In the midst of Jack Neo’s infidelity scandal, his longtime apprentice Mark Lee has dropped another bombshell - the famed Liang Jia Ban (or literally ‘Neo Clan’, referring to Jack’s band of artistes) will split and he will start his own company when his contract ends.

Mark and other artistes like Henry Thia, Michelle Tay, John Cheng (Ah Nan), Apple Hong, Brandon Wong, Nick Shen, Tay Ying Ying and Jeremy Chan are contracted to J Team, an artiste management and production house founded by Jack. The former four can be said to have been groomed by the film director himself.

But since Jack’s straying ways were exposed last Saturday by the local Chinese media and with more women coming out fast and furious, close friend Mark only had strong reactions and words on this matter.

Regarding questions of whether Liang Jia Ban would survive this storm, he said…

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March 11th, 2010

Zero chance for Best Actor, says nominee Tay Ping Hui

Just a few days before shooting the beach wedding scene at Paris Ris beach, the temperature registered a sweltering 36degrees. It hardly felt cooler on that day of filming, but we suspect the heat had already gotten to Tay Ping Hui’s head, because the bachelor actor was going on candidly about what he calls “a new yearning for marriage”.

Of course, we’re not discounting that this revelation also has something to do with his new role as a wedding coordinator in New Beginnings and the fact that he’s hitting the big 4-O this year.

He blanched at the idea of his own beach wedding but otherwise, the 39-year-old is all aglow about nuptials, describing weddings as “beautiful. It is a new beginning, and one of the many stages in a relationship.”

While he is one the Singapore’s biggest TV stars, his name is scarcely mentioned in off-screen dating…

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March 11th, 2010

Zoe Tay and Christy Yow to bare skin for new movie

In the name of filmmaking, the two female stars of new local movie Love Cuts will be challenging themselves with bold scenes that are set to ensure a fair amount of attention on the movie when it opens in the last quarter of this year.

The Queen of Caldecott Hill, Zoe Tay, will star in the leading role opposite veteran Hong Kong actor Kenny Ho as a 40-year-old mother battling terminal breast cancer, while buxomy Malaysian model Christy Yow plays a top lingerie model who has to remove her breasts after being afflicted with the illness.

Jointly produced by Clover Films and the Health Promotion Board, the movie hopes to encourage women to go for regular breast screenings.

Zoe, acting in a feature film nine years after her last outing in The Tree, will appear in a few scenes where co-star Kenny will bathe her sickly character. She…

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March 11th, 2010

Apple Hong has a Caucasian suitor

In a bid to win Apple Hong’s heart, a Caucasian male presented the Malaysian actress with a pot of orchids and a Chinese ‘Ru Yi’ ornament on Valentine’s Day last month.

At the press conference of the upcoming Tong Chai Charity show, Apple said that she “does not feel lonely” despite her “single status”, thanks to the company of her loved ones.

However, she soon flushed, flashed a toothy grin and then revealed that “There is someone pursuing me now, and I am enjoying the process of being wooed.”

On Valentine’s Day, which coincided with the start of the Chinese New Year, he gave her a pot of orchids. It was delivered to her apartment’s security house and the 32-year-old had to seek the help of the security guard to move it to her living quarters.

“When I saw that potted plant, I was shocked! When I saw…

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March 10th, 2010

"I’m naturally very shy": new 987 DJ Sarah Tan

It’s been a week since Sarah Tan got the earphones on, took hold of the microphone in front of her and starting talking aloud to herself - as the newly-minted DJ host of 987FM’s new lunch show.

“I was absolutely fine, until I turned the mike on and said my first word (laughs nervously),” she said, recollecting her very first day at work on March 1.

“I suddenly thought, ‘Um, what I am doing?! What am I doing?!’ I’d forgotten everything and spoke incredibly fast because the nerves kicked in and as soon as the microphone was off, I was exhausted (laughs).”

She sounds like she’s blushing crimson about her fumbles, but it’s is no small feat considering the 29-year-old Eurasian beauty (Dad’s Chinese, Mom’s English) previously had zilch radio experience.

She admits, point blank, “I’m naturally very shy”, which was why when she got the stint as the…

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March 10th, 2010