Sarah Song (; born 9 August 1985) is a

Chinese-Australian Chinese Australians () are Australians of Overseas Chinese, Chinese ancestry. Chinese Australians are one of the largest groups within the global Overseas Chinese, Chinese diaspora, and are the largest Asian Australian community. Per capita, Au ...

television host, actress, professional MC, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned

Miss Chinese International 2007 Miss Chinese International Pageant 2007 was held on January 20, 2007 in Foshan, China. Foshan would go on to host the pageant for two more years. Miss Chinese International 2006 Ina Lu of Johannesburg, South Africa crowned Sarah Song of Sydne ...

. Previously Song was crowned Miss Sydney Chinese 2006.

Early life

Song was born in Guangzhou, China, and immigrated to Sydney, Australia with her parents at age 6. Song attended the all-girls high school,

Pymble Ladies' College Pymble Ladies' College is an independent, non-selective, day and boarding school for girls, located in Pymble, a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. History and description Pymble Ladies' College was founded ...

and graduated in 2003. She attended the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

for a Bachelor of Commerce in Services Marketing, but dropped out after winning Miss Chinese International to develop her career in Hong Kong.

Pageantry

Song competed in Miss Sydney Chinese 2006 as No. 1 where she won the crown. After winning Miss Sydney Chinese, she earned the right to represent Sydney at

, held in

Foshan Foshan (, ), alternately romanized as Fatshan, is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. The entire prefecture covers and had a population of 9,498,863 as of the 2020 census. The city is part of the western side of the ...

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. Song won the competition, beating out first runner-up Ivy Lu from

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...

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, and second runner-up Sherry Chen from

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. She also won the Chinese Culture Ambassador Award.

Career

After winning Miss Chinese International, Song signed with broadcasting giant

TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and TVB ...

in Hong Kong. She began co-hosting the daily current affairs program ''The Scoop'' 東張西望, and the English-language lifestyle program ''Dolce Vita'' on

TVB Pearl TVB Pearl is a terrestrial television channel in Hong Kong owned by Television Broadcasts Limited. Established on 19 November 1967, it shares headquarters with TVB's other properties at TVB City at 77 Chun Choi Street in Tseung Kwan O Industr ...

. She has hosted over 30 variety programs for TVB. Song is also a professional MC for corporate and brand marketing events. After 12 years working at TVB, Song left TVB in September 2019. She and her husband Jason Chan Chi-sun have a

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channel with over 130,000 subscribers.

Filmography

References

External links

* http://m.weibo.cn/u/1733506821 {{DEFAULTSORT:Song, Sarah 1985 births Australian people of Chinese descent Actresses from Sydney People from Heshan Actresses from Guangzhou Living people University of New South Wales alumni Miss Chinese International winners TVB actors People with acquired residency of Hong Kong Actresses from Guangdong Australian television actresses Hong Kong television actresses Chinese television actresses 21st-century Chinese actresses 21st-century Hong Kong actresses People educated at Pymble Ladies' College Australian actresses of Asian descent