Jamie Yeo

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Jamie Yeo (Chinese: 杨薏琳) is a TV host, actress, radio deejay and model, known for co-hosting the ESPN/Star Sports Castrol Football Crazy and Maxis Football Extra television shows in Asia[1] and portraying Tammy in the TV show Growing Up,[2] arguably the role that made her famous.[3]

Yeo was born in Singapore on 17 April 1977, 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.[4] In 2010 Yeo remarried to Thorsten Nolte an expatriate living in Singapore; the couple have a daughter.[5][6]

From 2000 to 2006, she was a full-time DJ at MediaCorp Radio's 987FM.[3]

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 Castro Football Crazy due to changes in sponsorship and it went off air in 2010.

In 2012 Yeo went back to radio with SAFRA Radio on the Singapore station Power 98.


References

  1. ↑ "Jamie Yeo, 29" (29 April 2007), Straits Times
  2. ↑ "They're close like bee hoon" (4 October 1998), Pau Lin, Teo, Straits Times
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Me, Bimbo?" (12 November 2007), Tay, Michelle, Straits Times
  4. ↑ Celebrity couple Glenn Ong, Jamie Yeo call it quits, 14 February 2009, Mayo Martin, Channel Newsasia
  5. ↑ (MSN Interview)
  6. ↑ Jamie Yeo: 'I didn't even know I was in labour, 8 November 2010, Germaine Lim, AsiaOne
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