"Fann Wong tells all about that special man in her life."

This could have been the blurb on the front page of Life! today. But it was not to be.

Last Friday, United International Pictures (UIP), distributor of her upcoming movie, The Truth About Jane & Sam, issued a statement inviting reporters to a press conference at 2.45pm yesterday.

It was tantalisingly worded: "The press conference where Fann Wong will reveal the TRUTH about some of the issues the media has been speculating about."

And clearly, one of the issues the media has been speculating about is the man in her life, whom she had reportedly broken up with recently.

Then at 10.15am yesterday, UIP called to say the event was cancelled, but referred Life! to Raintree Pictures, a co-producer of Fann's movie, when asked the reason for cancellation.

This was not the first time that the people behind the movie have been seemingly getting the actress to go public about intimate details of her life, no doubt in a bid to whip up publicity for the film.

In May, Raintree promised that Fann, 28, would reveal who her ex-boyfriend was in an exclusive interview with Life!.

She did the interview but refused to say anything about the man except that he was a "special friend" of 11 years.

As there was nothing new to report, Life! said it did not want to run a story. That same day, Raintree called the section and promised that she would return to tell all. She never did and the story was dropped.

The New Paper had also been promised an interview, by the Television Corporation of Singapore, in which Fann was supposed to open up.

But she was as evasive as ever. In a TNP report on May 15, she was quoted as saying: "I really have no boyfriend then, so what do you expect me to say? All these years, I've never talked about my private life and I don't intend to change that."

A Raintree spokesman said that yesterday's cancellation was all due to a misunderstanding.

The press conference had been arranged following a lunch with Chinese newspaper reporters, and was meant to "clear the air about Fann, who has been a little reserved with the press".

But the company later realised that the media had misunderstood the intention of the press conference, which it claimed was not to be about her private life. Raintree said it wanted to separate the movie from "Fann and her past" since she was only one element of the film.

Moreover, Fann was exhausted from promotions for the movie, the soundtrack for the movie, her album and her new television series, so the company thought it best to cancel the event.

Life! was not the only media to misunderstand the intention of the press conference. TCS 5's Showbuzz has been running trailers in anticipation of the "tell all" session. Raintree said yesterday afternoon that Showbuzz would no longer be running the trailer.

Attempts to find out more from those close to Fann drew a blank. Her mother, Madam Wong Siew Toy, said "I don't know" to everything, even when asked by Life! if the actress was even in Singapore at the moment.

Fann, it would appear, is winning the battle to keep her private life private.