If it hadn't been for The New Paper New Face, Jayley Woo would never have been able to score her big break on local television.

The spunky, pixie-faced 19-year-old credits this newspaper's modelling competition for helping her become the first of this year's 20 finalists to snag a debut acting role in a major MediaCorp show.

She is now filming Channel U's new youth-themed drama Jump, co-starring Jeanette Aw and Zhang Zhenhuan.

The first-year mass communications student at MDIS is also basking in the bliss of a new romance.

Jayley is dating Edwin Goh, 17, the chiselled-jawheart-throb who found fame on the Channel 5 period drama Fighting Spiders and Channel 8 hit series On The Fringe.

Coincidentally, he is also starring in Jump, which premieres next May.

"Without New Face and (The New Paper columnist and New Face judge) Yeoh Wee Teck, I'll never be where I am today," said Jayley.

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