Sarah Tan
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Sarah Tan (born 1 August 1980 in the United Kingdom) is a Channel V VJ. Sarah Tan is a Singapore resident. Her father is Chinese and her mother is English. She has 2 younger sisters, Kathryn and Laura. She attended an all-girls boarding school in Shropshire, England, when she was 13. Several years later she returned to Singapore to finish high school at the United World College of South East Asia. Later, she enrolled in the University of Surrey in London and graduated with a degree in English literature.
Sarah Tan began her modeling career when she was 16 with the prestigious Elite Models Singapore agency. It was through this agency that she bagged the coveted VJ spot on the hip Channel V International. She previously worked as a bartender and a shop assistant at Chanel. Apart from VJ-ing for Channel V, she is currently hosting a dating show called A Light Affair which is aired on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 Singapore. 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.
She is currently affiliated to 3 different modeling agencies; one in Singapore, one in Thailand, and the last one in Hong Kong. Her current boyfriend is Soo Kui Jien, another host of TV show A Light Affair. Despite her big fame in Malaysia, she was virtually unknown in her own country, Singapore, when she first started VJ-ing for Channel [V], because the show was not aired in Singapore. 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.
