SINGAPORE: Jade Seah is getting her just desserts for not paying more attention in Chinese class back in school.
The 2006 Miss Singapore Universe first runner-up and TV host has landed her very first acting role in a Chinese drama about volleyball players, and she’s hard at work, taking lessons to polish her less-than-perfect Mandarin.
Dressed in a mini denim skirt and a fitting pullover, Jade was speaking to TODAY at Caldecott Broadcasting Centre just before scooting off for volleyball practice.
Of course, we had to cajole her into answering a question in Mandarin.
“Cannot lah!” she protested, even after we told her it would be “off the record”. “Don’t bluff, your recorder is still going!”
But she eventually relented: “Okay, ask me something simple – like what I like to eat.”
Of course, we spared her blushes for being such a sport – plus, she let us in on this sneak peek: She and co-stars Joanne Peh, Jesseca Liu and Dawn Yeoh would be appearing in bikinis in the new drama (it begins filming in April and is slated to air later this year).
“I think there’s one scene where we’ll have to walk through a market in our bikini tops,” she said.
Maybe then nobody will notice how her Mandarin is after all.
Channel News Asia