Name Jamie Yeo Role TV actress | Children Alysia Movies Zodiac: The Race Begins | |
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Similar People Glenn Ong, Thorsten Nolte, Jean Danker, Kate Reyes, Chee Kong Cheah | ||
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Jamie Yeo (Chinese: 杨薏琳) is a TV host, actress, radio deejay and model.
Contents
- Jamie yeo als ice bucket challenge
- Jamie yeo and glenn ong in an old footage
- Personal
- Professional career
- References
Jamie yeo and glenn ong in an old footage
Personal
Yeo was born in Singapore, studied in Fairfield Methodist Primary School and Nanyang Girls' High School before moving to Dayton, Ohio, for four years, where her father was posted as an engineer in the Republic of Singapore Air Force. She completed her secondary education at Dayton Christian High School. On returning to Singapore, she entered Ngee Ann Polytechnic and studied mass communications, graduating in 1998. She began dating DJ Glenn Ong in 2001 and the couple married in New Creation Church three years later, but separated in early 2009. In 2010 Yeo remarried to Thorsten Nolte, a British expatriate living in Singapore; the couple have a daughter. Jamie Yeo and Thorsten Nolte divorced in February 2015. In April 2016 Jamie gained sole custody of her daughter Alysia. In June 2017, she announced to the press that she was getting remarried the third time to another British expatriate Rupert, and was five months pregnant with a baby boy.
Professional career
Yeo began as an actress portraying Tammy in the TV show Growing Up, arguably the role that made her famous.
Yeo left acting into radio career. From 2000 to 2006, she was a full-time DJ at MediaCorp Radio's 987FM.
In 2005, Jamie started with ESPN and became the face of shows like Nokia Football Crazy and Football Extra. In 2009 Nokia Football Crazy was renamed Castrol Football Crazy due to changes in sponsorship and it went off air in 2010. In an interview with TheSportsCampus.com in 2009, Jamie shared that her favourite football club is Arsenal F.C., and her favourite player is Thierry Henry.
She is known for co-hosting the ESPN/Star Sports Castrol Football Crazy and Maxis Football Extra television shows in Asia.
In 2012, Yeo went back to radio with SAFRA Radio on the Singapore station Power98FM.
In 2015, Jamie returned to Mediacorp as Radio DJ for Gold 905FM. In March 2016, she took over the drive-time show, "The Homestretch".
Yeo can also be seen as a host of travel and life style program Inside Singapore from Insider TV.