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Jamie Yeo


Jamie Yeo (Chinese: 杨薏琳) is a TV host, actress, radio deejay and model.

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.

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.


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