STOMP star blogger Jamie Yeo, 32, and her husband, radio deejay Glenn Ong, 38, have announced that they are getting a divorce.
Glenn, who hosts a morning radio programme on Class 95, had announced on-air this morning that he and Jamie "were no longer together".
According to The Straits Times, there had been rumours for the past few weeks that their marriage was on the rocks and they were spotted at a recent event arriving and sitting separately.
A spokesman for MediaCorp Radio says: 'Glenn Ong and Jamie Yeo have officially filed for separation and have been living apart for a while. Their marriage broke down simply due to the couple having grown apart in recent years because of their careers and individual differences.
'The decision was a mutual one and thus the parting was amicable. They remain good friends, are still talking and continue to have the utmost respect for each other. This is naturally a difficult time for the couple and they have requested to be left alone unequivocally.'
But in a recent entry dated Jan 29 on her personal blog, Jamie, who is also an ESPN sports presenter, wrote: 'I was glad to be done with 2008 honestly. The year was great work-wise but not so on a personal level. I'm only finally admitting this because the year's done and dusted, and I know 2009 will be liberating, to say the least.'
The couple have no children, but they own a dog, a Jack Russell terrier named Fudgie.
Second divorce
This will be the second divorce for Glenn, who married Kate Reyes, a deejay from the same station in 2000. They divorced in 2003.
Jamie was widely-rumoured to be the cause of the split, which she has denied. According to a report in Wanbao, the couple first started dating in 2001.
After Glenn's divorce, he and Jamie were married in Dec 2004 at the New Creation Church.
The couple, who are known to embrace publicity, have often been spotted at media events together, openly displaying their affection for each other.
A shock
The news came as a shock to many.
One of them was Jamie's ex-colleague, Robin Leong.
Robin, who was briefly linked to Jamie in the past, expressed his surprise at the news.
He said he always thought they were "very loving". He also said he still kept in touch with Jamie, "once in a while".
I agree with your view.
PMETS face the greater threat of losing their jobs, especially those in their 40's. I have recently lost my job and decided to set-up company offering IT and consultancy services. There are lots of experienced profesional people with tons of valuable experience from their years of work, who are sidelined by the current situation, and more so, by the employers who fail to see their value.
I think we can set-up a network/group to support each other. Please send me your email and interest/skillset. Perhaps we can group/organize ourselves by leveraging on our own expertise, and making a viable business out of this.
My email is lobernard2001@yahoo.com.
Good Luck
Cheers! :D
Actually, moving forward, businesses will go back to the outsourcing model again. There was a trend back in the early 1990s for outsourcing, then some wise guy showed companies how to vertically integrate processes without incurring higher costs thanks to other trends called Six Sigma and what not, and then with this crisis, many companies will be looking at breaking up their processes into smaller chunks and outsourcing again to reduce risks and costs.
Case in point: Benetton. All its operations except merchandising and procurement are totally outsourced and that helped turn the company around.
And if you guys are seeking to build a business as a group, I would recommend coming together collectively as business management consultants, given how vague this term is that .....
Both Ong and Yeo likes to create news headlines.
Just be prepared to be trick again!
Wait till 1 April to learn if this another April Fool's joke.
Find peoples whose job are taken by foreigner?
Reporter writing story?
Or some group discussion to prevent losing it all to foreigner?
Funny the person who begin this had gone underground.
It seem Glenn is so proud to announce it publicly what does he trying to tell, i seem he can have another marriage in the next few month in church again.
And for Jamie what a shameless women i ever heard and see with my own eyes, worse they came from the same church and does the church allow or have not counsellor both of them before the decision is make.
this couple bring shame not only to the media industries, it tells how the family had .....