Actress Rebecca Lim might have been Dr Rebecca Lim to you, had all the things gone to plan.
Sadly, that plan needed to be deserted as her dad was going by way of a interval of ailing well being on the time.
The 35-year-old shared this throughout the second episode of Christopher Lee’s discuss present, Dishing with Chris, the place Rebecca and actor Chen Hanwei had been friends.
To start with, who knew the trio had been such chummy associates in actual life? Rebecca and Chris first acted reverse one another in Secrets and techniques for Sale in 2011, whereas the 2 veteran actors co-starred in Of Cops & Males approach again in 1996.
The trio shot the breeze throughout the programme, the place Chris showcased his cooking abilities in an out of doors kitchen arrange in ulu Pulau Ubin. Rebecca and Hanwei, who admitted that they will’t cook dinner and the latter’s kitchen is merely a “showroom”, helped out.
Regardless of the age hole between Rebecca and the 2 veteran actors of their fifties, laughter and banter flowed simply because the trio mentioned subjects starting from how they received began in showbiz to plans for his or her future.
Rebecca reminded everybody that she stepped into the leisure trade following her stint in Miss Universe Singapore. “You had been Miss Photogenic, I bear in mind,” quipped Christopher, 50.
“Oh actually, I didn’t know. I believed you had been found,” reacted Hanwei, 52, in shock.
However issues might have seemed very completely different for Rebecca.
“The unique plan was for me to go to the UK to check medication, however sadly on the time, my dad was not in good well being. He informed me, ‘I don’t assume we now have the cash so that you can research overseas for thus a few years, why don’t you simply research in Singapore’.”
She ended up taking on a double diploma in accountancy and legislation at Singapore Administration College.
When requested by Chris if she took up appearing due to her curiosity, Rebecca acknowledged, “there was completely no curiosity”.
“I simply thought that by signing the part-time contract, I might be capable to earn an earnings and help my research with my wage,” stated Rebecca, who joined Mediacorp full-time after her commencement.
Covid-19 pandemic gave her time to assume
In the course of the present, Rebecca’s admission that she’s inept within the kitchen was picked aside by Hanwei specifically.
Sharing that she doesn’t cook dinner at dwelling “as a result of there are too many individuals in my household who can cook dinner”, Hanwei jibed good-naturedly: “Whenever you get married, you possibly can’t carry your brother and household.”
Rebecca additionally stated that “not serving to within the kitchen is the very best assist I can provide,” and that her mum could be disenchanted by her incapacity to cook dinner.
This earned one other retort from Hanwei: “It’s your future husband who’ll be disenchanted.”
Sounding like a naggy dad or mum (or an overly-concerned finest good friend), the veteran actor added: “They are saying to maintain a husband you need to maintain his stomach glad, in any other case he’ll say ‘bye bye’ inside three years.”
Whereas newly-engaged Rebecca didn’t share a lot about her fiance throughout the trio’s heart-to-heart chat, she did reveal that the Covid-19 pandemic performed an necessary position in how her private life has panned out.
“Maybe as a result of pandemic, issues slowed down and I lastly had some ‘me time’ to consider what I need in life.
“It made me realise that I do need to have a household of my very own sooner or later,” shared the actress, who received engaged to 35-year-old Singaporean Matthew Webster in November 2021. In line with media studies, Webster is an assistant vice-president of company branding at PSA Singapore.
And one married couple that Rebecca admires is none apart from Chris and his spouse Fann Wong.
“They’re very, very candy and you may actually really feel their love,” she defined.
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Rebecca additionally revealed that Chris was her idol rising up, and sure, she calls him that once they meet.
She turned teary-eyed when confiding to the digital camera concerning the belief and appreciation that she has for Hanwei and Christopher.
“They really know a variety of my secrets and techniques and so they haven’t shared it with anybody, so I admire that quite a bit. It’s arduous to search out somebody whom you possibly can open up to and that’s why I treasure them and am so grateful for his or her presence on this trade.”
This text was first revealed in AsiaOne.
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