Mr Patrick Kinghorn was co-host at the screening and
did not get along with Mr Soo
A SingTel mioTV football presenter reportedly bit his co-host in the face
during the live screening of an English Premier
League match in Singapore on 1 May.
According the The Straits Times, SingTel mioTV hosts
Soo Kui Jien and Patrick
Kinghorn were hosting the live screening of a Premier League
showdown between Manchester United and
Arsenal at Timbre @ The Arts House, when
Kinghorn apparently walked up to Soo and bit him on the face during
half-time.
Soo, 38, had been speaking to patrons at the time, conducting
lucky draws with EPL fans present.
A police spokesman said they received a call for assistance at
about 10.45 pm. It is understand that the caller said someone had
been bitten on the face, reported the paper.
The case has been classified as voluntarily causing hurt. Legal
action is believed to have started.
Both Soo and event organiser SingTel declined comment while
Kinghorn could not be reached.
Soo and Kinghorn co-host a weekly English Premier League show on
SingTel mioTV's football channel but the
pair, it appears, do not get along.
Kinghorn is the anchor presenter on the channel but he has not
been seen on air in the last few weeks.
He is apparently no stranger to controversy. An article published in 2009 reveals
how Kinghorn and his then co-presenter on British radio show
talkSPORT, Tony Cascarino, fell out on-air
when Kinghorn accused Cascarino of "chasing that 21-year-old around
the office".
It ended up with Cascarino punching Kinghorn in the face and the
pair brawled on the office sofa until Cascarino was pulled off
Kinghorn.
Soo, who usually goes by the name of Jien, is a popular Malaysian television host who has
acted in a number of local Singapore sitcoms. He is married to MTV
VJ Sarah Tan.
