SHE doesn’t seem to want anything to do with the show that launched her television career.

Local model-turned-club deejay Nicole Chen was on the 2007 Channel 5 reality TV show Girl On Girl, in which she battled five other girls in various challenges such as changing car tyres and killing cockroaches.

When The New Paper casually mentioned that the show was created by production house Munkysuperstar Pictures – the same people behind the widely-slammed reality show S Factor and online series Bored In Bikinis – the 23-year-old exclaimed: “I’m not in S Factor!”

We know, Nicole. Different show. No need to get so worked up.

Like most of Munkysuperstar’s productions, both have been panned by critics for being sexist and bimbotic.

But Nicole became defensive when we probed her about her experience on the show.

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She refused to comment on whether she felt Girl On Girl demeaned women and portrayed them as airheads.

She would only say: “Actually, it was more like a marketing tie-up with Clear Men (a body care brand).

“I’m not too sure about other things related to it.”

She also denied knowing Yan Kay Kay – a fellow cast member of Girl On Girl and the eventual winner of S Factor – personally.

“We don’t keep in touch,” she said simply.

Kay Kay, The New Paper’s Turn-off Of The Year, is notorious for kissing blogger Xiaxue in a widely circulated online video last year.

But Nicole – who works the decks at Clarke Quay nightspot A971 Cafe every Wednesday to Saturday – doesn’t rule out taking part in future reality programmes.

But on one condition: Focus on her current identity as a deejay.

“I will only do reality programmes if they film me performing, or if they’re based on music,” said Nicole.

“The visual medium is something that I’m into too, but I’d like to combine all my interests together if possible.”

Deejaying is her new passion, one that she views as being equally important to her modelling career.

She is so passionate about it that she spent a few months honing her craft under the tutelage of experts in Melbourne.

Her resident gig at A971 Cafe, which she started early this month, is her first official stint.

Prior to that, she had been deejaying at events and parties for friends.

“It helps that I’ve been trained in classical piano since I was 4,” said the fan of Dutch veteran deejay and producer Armin Van Buuren.

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“But deejaying is much more interactive, you have to pay attention to the crowd and watch how they react to your set.”

Nicole, who was crowned Miss Earth Singapore in 2007, is still a commercial model in the day, something she has been doing since she was 4.

“My first advertisement was for a dairy milk brand,” she recalled with a grin.

She modelled through her teenage years and has no intention of stopping.

“Being Singapore’s first female model-deejay is unique,” she said, admitting that her good looks have helped her deejaying career as people tend to pay more attention.

“Just the other day, a fellow model came up to me while I was spinning, saying that I played well. It was definitely great to hear such positive remarks.”

The spunky girl is thankful that so far, she hasn’t been harassed by drunk male customers.

“The bars and clubs in Singapore are generally very safe, there are bouncers outside and my deejay console has barricades around it,” she said.

“So far, it’s all good.”

This article was first published in The New Paper.