Sarah Tan (born 1 August 1980 in the United Kingdom) is a British Channel V VJ and a 987FM DJ and a
Singapore resident.
Her father is Chinese and her mother is English. She has two younger sisters, Kathryn and Laura. She attended an all-girls boarding school in
Shropshire,
England, when she was 13. Several years later she returned to Singapore to finish high school at the
United World College of South East Asia. Later, she enrolled in the
University of Surrey
The University of Surrey is a public research university in Guildford, Surrey, England. The university received its royal charter in 1966, along with a number of other institutions following recommendations in the Robbins Report. The institut ...
and graduated with a degree in English literature.
Tan previously worked as a bartender and a shop assistant at Chanel. She began her modeling career when she was 16 with the prestigious
Elite Models Singapore agency. It was through this agency that she received the coveted VJ spot on
Channel V International. Apart from VJ-ing for Channel V, she is currently hosting a dating show called ''
A Light Affair'' which is aired on
MediaCorp TV Channel 5 Singapore. She also hosts ''
Spellcast'' on
Okto. As a model, she has been the cover girl for various magazines such as Flirt, Seventeen, Her World and in Malaysia's Newtide and Female, as well as Singapore's Newman magazine.
Despite her fame in
Malaysia, she was virtually unknown in her own country, Singapore, when she first started VJ-ing for Channel
because the show was not aired in Singapore.
In 2005, Tan signed with modelling agency Mannequin Studio.
She is currently affiliated to 3 different modeling agencies; one in Singapore, one in
Thailand, and the last one in
Hong Kong. Tan was voted fifth-sexiest woman in Asia FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World for 2003 and third-sexiest woman in Asia FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World for 2004.
Personal life
Tan is married to
Soo Kui Jien
Soo Kui Jien (; born 31 August 1972), is a Malaysian television personality.
Biography
Better known as ''Handsome Jien'', Jien got his big break when he became a host on the Disney Channel in 1997. He has worked as an emcee and host on tele ...
, another host of TV show ''
A Light Affair''. They tied the knot on 21 December 2007 after being in a relationship for two and a half years. The ceremony took place in Bali, Indonesia.
In April 2008, she gave birth to a son named Dylan Robert Soo. In March 2010, she joined 987FM and begun hosting a weekday lunchtime show. in 2014 she gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl.
See also
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Channel V
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Paula Malai Ali Paula Malai Ali Othman (born 3 March 1974, in Brunei) is a television personality from Brunei. Formerly a veejay for Channel V and presenter for Fox Sports Asia, she is now a Brunei reporter for TVS.
A well-known media figure in Asia, Paula has w ...
References
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1980 births
Living people
Singaporean television personalities
Video jockeys
Alumni of the University of Surrey
English people of Chinese descent
Singaporean people of English descent
Singaporean expatriates in Malaysia
Singaporean people of Chinese descent
People educated at a United World College