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Looking better than ever
1. Benedict Goh, 45, chief client officer of interior design firm Fide Living and supplier of customised skincare for clinics
Benedict Goh, who was the face of The Pyramid Game (left) in the 1990s, is now a supplier of skincare products. Image: File photo, Lim Sin Thai
Best known for: Hosting TV game show The Pyramid Game (1995 - 1997)
Benedict Goh has clearly found the elixir of youth because this guy does not age.
At 45, he can easily pass for someone a decade younger - his boyish good looks reminiscent of that same TV host who charmed audiences on game show The Pyramid Game all those years ago.
He is immediately shy when you point this out.
"No lah, no lah, I've definitely gotten older," he says while frantically waving his hands, before finally conceding that it helps to keep to a regular workout routine.
"I'm no couch potato - or maybe I just have a high metabolic rate," he adds with a flash of his famous dimpled smile.
He is currently single, but was married to an air stewardess for six years before they split in 2009. He declines to divulge more information, but says he has no regrets in his life.
For the past 10 years, he has been representing various Swiss skincare brands and customising them for doctors and plastic surgeons to use at their practices here.
At the same time, the busy bee is chief client officer of interior design firm Fide Living, where he makes pitches of design jobs for homes, offices and retail spaces. He is also an emcee at various charity gigs and private functions on the side.
He quit show business in 1998 when his three-year contract with then Television Corporation of Singapore ended, feeling overworked.
Besides hosting programmes, he also played a number of major roles on Channel 8 dramas - and that was what he found tough to handle.
"Memorising all those lines in Mandarin - that was really hard for me. The hours were also crazy and you really had no time for anything else.
"If you had a lead role, you were the first to be on set and the last to leave. It was exhausting and I'm pretty sure I brought down every shoot with my poor command of the language," says the former star, who appeared in dramas such as Rising Expectations (1997), alongside Li Nanxing and Zoe Tay.
After he left the industry as a full-time artist, he continued to take on the occasional acting gig.
"I never burnt my bridges with the television station and I didn't mind doing some projects here and there. It's fun to go back and work with old friends," he says.
"I'm not a multi-millionaire, but I'm enjoying my life. I travel quite a bit and I see my friends. I can't complain."
Looking better than ever
1. Benedict Goh, 45, chief client officer of interior design firm Fide Living and supplier of customised skincare for clinics
Benedict Goh, who was the face of The Pyramid Game (left) in the 1990s, is now a supplier of skincare products. Image: File photo, Lim Sin Thai
Best known for: Hosting TV game show The Pyramid Game (1995 - 1997)
Benedict Goh has clearly found the elixir of youth because this guy does not age.
At 45, he can easily pass for someone a decade younger - his boyish good looks reminiscent of that same TV host who charmed audiences on game show The Pyramid Game all those years ago.
He is immediately shy when you point this out.
"No lah, no lah, I've definitely gotten older," he says while frantically waving his hands, before finally conceding that it helps to keep to a regular workout routine.
"I'm no couch potato - or maybe I just have a high metabolic rate," he adds with a flash of his famous dimpled smile.
He is currently single, but was married to an air stewardess for six years before they split in 2009. He declines to divulge more information, but says he has no regrets in his life.
For the past 10 years, he has been representing various Swiss skincare brands and customising them for doctors and plastic surgeons to use at their practices here.
At the same time, the busy bee is chief client officer of interior design firm Fide Living, where he makes pitches of design jobs for homes, offices and retail spaces. He is also an emcee at various charity gigs and private functions on the side.
He quit show business in 1998 when his three-year contract with then Television Corporation of Singapore ended, feeling overworked.
Besides hosting programmes, he also played a number of major roles on Channel 8 dramas - and that was what he found tough to handle.
"Memorising all those lines in Mandarin - that was really hard for me. The hours were also crazy and you really had no time for anything else.
"If you had a lead role, you were the first to be on set and the last to leave. It was exhausting and I'm pretty sure I brought down every shoot with my poor command of the language," says the former star, who appeared in dramas such as Rising Expectations (1997), alongside Li Nanxing and Zoe Tay.
After he left the industry as a full-time artist, he continued to take on the occasional acting gig.
"I never burnt my bridges with the television station and I didn't mind doing some projects here and there. It's fun to go back and work with old friends," he says.
"I'm not a multi-millionaire, but I'm enjoying my life. I travel quite a bit and I see my friends. I can't complain."