Former Member of Parliament (MP) Lee Bee Wah was 20 years old with just 20 ringgit ($6.44) in her pocket when she ventured solo from her village in Melaka to Singapore for her tertiary education. Her parents, who were rubber tappers, could hardly afford her university fees even for her first year of studies. But Lee, who excelled academically as.
Local TV host Bryan Wong has become a household name and is well-liked by audiences. However, the veteran artiste actually wanted to quit showbiz because he was voted the "most disliked artiste" when he started out as a host in the 1990s. On the latest episode of meWATCH talk show Hear U Out, 50-year-old Bryan revealed to host Quan Yi.
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Now that he's a father, China-born actor Xu Bin could empathise a little with what his mother went through raising him. He started school two years earlier than his peers in China, which meant he was only 11 when he attended the equivalent of Secondary 1 there. When his grades dropped, his mum sold several of her businesses so she.
Before Sheila Sim starred in local dramas such as I'm In Charge (2013) and 118 (2014), she was a supermodel who graced runways and magazine covers in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris and Milan. On the latest episode of the meWATCH talkshow Hear U Out, the 37-year-old shared her "gross" photos self-taken before her modelling days and revealed she had.