Jamie Yeo

Jamie Yeo
Jamie Yeo
Born	17 April 1977 (age 47); Singapore
Education	Fairfield Methodist Primary School; Nanyang Girls' High School; Dayton Christian High School;
Alma mater	Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Occupations	Television host; actress; radio presenter; model;
Spouses	; Glenn Ong (m. 2004; div. 2009) ; Thorsten Nolte (m. 2010; div. 2015) ; Rupert (m. 2017)
Children	2
	Career
Show	Castrol Football Crazy (former); Maxis Football Extra (former)
Network	ESPN Star Sports (former)
Show	The Homestretch[citation needed]
Station(s)	987FM (former); SAFRA Radio (former); Power98FM (former); Gold 905FM (former)
Network	MediaCorp Radio
Style	Disc jockey
Country	Singapore
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	楊薏琳
Simplified Chinese	杨薏琳
Hanyu Pinyin	Yáng Yìlín

Jamie Yeo (born 17 April 1977) is a Singaporean former television host, actress and radio presenter.^[1] She is known for starring in Growing Up and for co-hosting the shows Castrol Football Crazy and Maxis Football Extra on ESPN Star Sports.^[2]

Early life

Yeo was born in Singapore^{[citation needed]} on 17 April 1977.^[3] She attended Fairfield Methodist Primary School^[4] and Nanyang Girls' High School before moving to Dayton, Ohio^{[citation needed]} for four years, where her father was posted as an engineer in the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF).

She completed her secondary school education at Dayton Christian High School.^{[citation needed]} After returning to Singapore, she entered Ngee Ann Polytechnic and studied mass communications,^[5] because her certificate from the United States was not recognised in Singapore so she could not take her A Level at a junior college. She eventually graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 1998.^[6]

Career

Yeo began as an actress portraying Tammy in the long-running series Growing Up,^[7]^[8] She has also acted in MediaCorp Channel 8 Mandarin-language productions Holland V and Baby Boom in 2003.^[9]^[10]

Yeo left acting to pursue a radio career. From 2000 to 2006, she was a full-time DJ at MediaCorp Radio's 987FM.^[8]^[5]

In 2005, Yeo joined ESPN and became the face of shows like Nokia Football Crazy and Football Extra. In 2009, Football Crazy was renamed Castrol Football Crazy due to a change in sponsorship and it went off air in 2010.^[11]^[12]

In 2012, Yeo went back to radio with SAFRA Radio on the Singapore station Power98FM.^[13]

In 2015, Yeo returned to Mediacorp as radio DJ for Gold 905FM. In March 2016, she took over the drive-time show The Homestretch.^[14]^{[citation needed]}

Yeo is also the host of the travel and lifestyle program Inside Singapore on Insider TV.^[14]

Personal life

In an interview with TheSportsCampus in 2009, Yeo said her favorite football club is Arsenal F.C. and her favourite player Thierry Henry.^[15]

Yeo began dating Glenn Ong in 2001 and the couple married in New Creation Church three years later in 2004, but separated in early 2009.^[16]

In 2010, Yeo married Thorsten Nolte, a British immigrant in Singapore and the couple had a daughter.^[17]^[18] However, they divorced in February 2015. In April 2016, she gained sole custody of her daughter, Alysia.^[19]

In June 2017, she announced to the media that she was getting married for the third time to another British immigrant in Singapore, Rupert, and was five months pregnant with a baby boy.^[20] Their son, Luke, was born on 29 August 2017.^[21]

Yeo moved to England with her family in July 2022.^[22]^[23] She currently lives in Lewes.^[24]

In October 2023, in support of the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Yeo revealed that she was diagnosed with an early-stage breast cancer in 2021. Yeo said she underwent a lumpectomy and radiation therapy and is currently on an "ongoing regimen of pills" to treat the condition.^[25]