She recently became the first Singaporean to make DJ Mag's list of Top 100 DJs.

In the same month, DJ Tenashar, 26, became the first Singaporean to be featured on the cover of Playboy magazine.

Or more accurately, the Thailand edition of the men's magazine that has long been banned in Singapore because of its pictorials of naked women.

And it was no coincidence that Tenashar appeared in Playboy Thailand's October issue, the same month that she got listed in DJ Mag Top 100.

She told The New Paper over the phone from Hong Kong, where she is based, that she had asked to be the October cover girl to capitalise on her DJ mag success.

Asked how she felt about making the cover of Playboy, she said: "First Singaporean on the cover of Playboy. Yay!

"I specifically asked for my picture to be on the cover for the October edition.

"I pushed for it because I felt that it would be good for the magazine if my cover coincided with the release of the DJ Mag list.

"I felt it was a win-win situation for both of us because that would help sell a lot of magazines."

Tenashar, whose real name is Debbie Valerie Long, is also one of TNP's Babe of the Year nominees in the paper's annual Flame Awards.

Playboy Thailand chief editor Valent Soisuvarn told TNP that Tenashar was the first international model to be featured on the magazine's cover.

"I had approached her as we saw her to be an up-and-coming personality in the region, and wanted to feature her as her status was growing," he said.

It is not clear if Tenashar posed nude for Playboy Thailand or whether the magazine features nudity. But on its website, she is pictured posing in lingerie or with a wet and torn tank top.

In one shot, she appears to be topless but with her hands covering her breasts.

Controversy seems to follow the DJ-model, who came into the limelight in an employment agency's publicity video last year in which she asks a former massage uncle to give her a rubdown. (See report at right.)

And of late, there has been the speculation that she has had her face and breasts surgically enhanced.

On Oct 30, a blog called Singapore Hall Of Shame carried a post with what it claimed were nude pictures of pre-plastic surgery Tenashar.

The blogger wrote: "Previously, I have speculated and insinuated that DJ Tenashar has fake boobs and plastic jobs done on her face... "A reader who does not want to be identified sent me pictures of Tenashar before she got famous, and the evidence is quite clear."

He also said Tenashar was angry that her nude pictures were leaked and she complained to Google, which owns Blogger, for copyright infringement. In a Nov 12 post, the blogger wrote that the alleged nude pictures were removed by Blogger.

In response to our enquiry, the blogger wrote in an e-mail that he came to know of the pictures on Oct 29 after a reader sent him a link to them.

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(Photos: TNP, Tenashar, Oriental Daily News, Youtube, Apple Daily, Internet)

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