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Former Ch 8 actress JOEY
SWEE on being a Tiger mum,
her long-distance marriage,
and why she doesn’t
mind playing mum to
a teenager.

Joey Swee is not happy.
She’s clad in a set of PJs,
her hair tied up in a messy bun,
looking very much like she just woke
up... and we don’t mean it in that
#iwokeuplikethis way. But before
you think that the former actress
has let herself go since retiring from
the limelight in 2009, well, you’re
only partly right. The actress will have
you know that this is the look she
usually has on now that she’s a full-time
housewife and mother. Which is why she
was thrilled at the thought of getting all
glammed up for her showbiz comeback.
Alas, plot twist! In upcoming 150-ep drama
Reach for the Skies, aka her Ch 8 comeback, the
actress plays a lazy and sloppy employee of a
family-run mini-mart. Which explains her just-
rolled-out-of-bed look.
“Actually, I’m quite sad with the way my
character looks in this drama,” she sighs, “’Cos
I haven’t shot a Ch 8 drama for very long. I
thought I could appear on screen looking pretty.
But I didn’t think that I’d have to go make-up
free,” she says, jokingly adding: “I hope that
when I appear on TV bare-faced, audiences
won’t feel repulsed!” We don’t think Joey

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