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Mar 12, 2010

JACK NEO SCANDAL

Jack's sorry affair

Jack's secret lives

Life! traces how Jack Neo's extramarital love life was unravelled.

Last Friday: Neo's girlfriend, actress-model Wendy Chong, 22, goes public about their two-year affair. She alerts the media that she is in talks with him and his wife Irene Kng at Crowne Plaza hotel in Changi airport.

Last Saturday: The story breaks in Lianhe Wanbao.

Sunday: Sordid details of the film director's affair with Chong emerge in Shin Min Daily News, such as how they had sex in his car.

Foreign Minister George Yeo writes on his blog that Singaporeans should 'rally around Jack, his wife and his children at this time'.

Monday: Host-actress Foyce Le Xuan, 25, comes forward. She says in an interview with Lianhe Wanbao that Neo tried to woo her when she joined his company, J Team, in 2004.

Tuesday: Mitsubishi Electric Asia drops him as its spokesman for StarMex air-conditioners.

Wednesday: French student Maelle Meurzec, 21, comes forward. In an interview with The New Paper, she says Neo hit on her when she was a 16-year-old extra in his 2005 film, I Do, I Do.

Thursday: Neo and his wife meet the media at Scorpio East Building.

All over in 5 mins

JACK NEO (in Mandarin)

'Good morning. Thanks for being here today.

The past few days have not been easy for us, I am sure that all of you know that.

I caused this entire incident. It was entirely my fault and it has nothing to do with anyone.

Today, I feel that the luckiest thing for me is that my wife has forgiven me. My wife has endured the pain that many women can't endure. She has also forgiven me.

She told me she didn't know how to face the media. So I hope this is the last time we talk to the media.

Please give us a chance. Thank you.'

IRENE KNG (in Mandarin)

'Hi, everyone. I am not an artist, so I don't know how to deal with this kind of situation.

I can only say this: because I love Jack, I love this marriage, I love my family.

I have been hurt enough, so please spare me.

The most important thing for me now is that I need your support and blessing.

(In English) I really need your blessing.

(In Mandarin) Thank you.'

Wendy Chong (far left), Foyce Le Xuan and Maelle Meurzec have claimed that he made advances towards them. -- PHOTOS: JOYCE LIM, FOYCE LE XUAN, CHOO CHWEE HUA

ONE can look at film director Jack Neo's press conference as a short punchy film: beautifully directed and sincerely performed, the plot centred on infidelity.

There were sobbing protaganists, shouting, a dramatic collapse and action sequences which almost ended in fisticuffs, thanks to getai regular Zhong Yaonan's heroic intervention.

Suffice to say, it will be one of the most watched five-minute press conferences on the Internet.

But viewers looking for some form of closure to Neo's scandal had better look elsewhere. He evaded the hard questions.

He did not even come close to providing answers to some important questions: Did you sexually harass the artists you signed up? What is your response to disappointed fans? What did you learn from this episode? Will you be less preachy in your future films, given your own personal failings?

Instead, his manager said there would be no question-and-answer session.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times, Life!.

chiahta@sph.com.sg

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