Sarah Tan (born 1 August 1980 in the United Kingdom) is a British Channel V VJ and a 987FM DJ and a

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resident. Her father is Chinese and her mother is English. She has two younger sisters, Kathryn and Laura. She attended an all-girls boarding school in

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, when she was 13. Several years later she returned to Singapore to finish high school at the

United World College of South East Asia The United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) is an independent international school in Singapore. It is a member of the United World College (UWC) movement, which includes 18 schools worldwide. UWCSEA provides a K–12 education consi ...

. Later, she enrolled in the

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and graduated with a degree in English literature. Tan previously worked as a bartender and a shop assistant at Chanel. She began her modeling career when she was 16 with the prestigious

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Singapore agency. It was through this agency that she received the coveted VJ spot on Channel V International. Apart from VJ-ing for Channel V, she is currently hosting a dating show called '' A Light Affair'' which is aired on

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TV Channel 5 Singapore. She also hosts '' Spellcast'' on

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. As a model, she has been the cover girl for various magazines such as Flirt, Seventeen, Her World and in Malaysia's Newtide and Female, as well as Singapore's Newman magazine. Despite her fame in

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, she was virtually unknown in her own country, Singapore, when she first started VJ-ing for Channel because the show was not aired in Singapore. In 2005, Tan signed with modelling agency Mannequin Studio. She is currently affiliated to 3 different modeling agencies; one in Singapore, one in

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, and the last one in

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. Tan was voted fifth-sexiest woman in Asia FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World for 2003 and third-sexiest woman in Asia FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World for 2004.

Personal life

Tan is married to Soo Kui Jien, another host of TV show '' A Light Affair''. They tied the knot on 21 December 2007 after being in a relationship for two and a half years. The ceremony took place in Bali, Indonesia. In April 2008, she gave birth to a son named Dylan Robert Soo. In March 2010, she joined 987FM and begun hosting a weekday lunchtime show. in 2014 she gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tan, Sarah 1980 births Living people Singaporean television personalities Video jockeys Alumni of the University of Surrey English people of Chinese descent Singaporean people of English descent Singaporean expatriates in Malaysia Singaporean people of Chinese descent People educated at a United World College

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