Jonathan Putra (born September 12, 1982) is a television host and actor,

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VJ, model, and musician. JP, as he is commonly known, was born in

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, England, but grew up in

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, where he honed his musical skills with his band Colour, playing gigs in and around the American midwest. He attended

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. He continued his studies in Education & Finance at

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. He worked a variety of jobs from the age of 15 until present. Such as construction, sales manager, stock broker, party clown et cetera. He then moved to

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to start a career in entertainment as a VJ for

International. After presenting on

for nearly two years on a range of shows. Most notably presenting the show ARCADE and also co-presenting, co-writing and co-producing the show Bid It with

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. He then made the move to NTV7 to host a new program called

Life Session ''Life Session'' is a television lifestyle talk show catered to urbanites. With its magazine format, this show complements NTV7’s lifestyle belt and boasting five different genres – one for each day. The hosts of the program are Jonathan Putr ...

. A lifestyle show in which Jonathan hosted alongside

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& Wan Sariah Jaafar. Covering topics ranging from Style, Health, Home Deco and Jonathan hosted the cooking segments. After year long season of Life!session Jonathan made the jump to host the highly successful and acclaimed two-hour morning talk show called The Breakfast Show, alongside Malaysian television personalities

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, Nazrudin Rahman(Naz), Hansen Lee, Sharifa Aleya, and Elaine Daly live on Ntv7. Aside from hosting television programs, Jonathan Putra also occupies his time through acting for film & television as well as various side projects such as: officiating and hosting events as MC, DJ for

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airlines in-flight radio programs, modeling for brands like

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, and acting in television commercials. Some of the projects JP is known for are his roles as Cikgu Ben in ''Elly & Epit'' Season 2 on

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, Samuel & Danial in the ''

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'' drama series for

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alongside Keith Foo & Fatiyah Latiff, Johan in the Astro Telemovie ''Pengancam Perkhawinan'' alongside Intan Ladyanna, and Ryan in the telemovie ''Hanya Di Atas Kertas'' alongside

Keith Foo Foo Chuan Chin (born 6 January 1983), also known as Keith Foo, is a Malaysian actor who has worked in Indonesia and Malaysia. Some of the films that involve him are ''Mati Suri'' (2009), ''Paku Kuntilanak'', ''Bidadari Jakarta'' (2010), ''Peng ...

. He is of Chinese-Indian-English descent.

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