About a decade ago, the term '8 Dukes of Caldecott Hill' was coined to refer to eight promising Mediacorp actors: the late Aloysius Pang, Desmond Tan, Ian Fang, Jeffrey Xu, Romeo Tan, Shane Pow, Xu Bin and Zhang Zhenhuan, who goes by Zhang Zhenxuan now. Debuting as a boy band, they sang Backstreet Boys' I Want It That Way at...
Romeo Tan and Desmond Tan shared that there was always rivalry when they were part of the 8 Dukes of Caldecott Hill in the 2010s.About a decade ago, the term "8 Dukes of Caldecott Hill" was coined to refer to eight promising Mediacorp actors:
The other guests in the episode were Romeo and Felicia Chin, who was one of the 7 Princesses of Mediacorp and is married to Jeffrey. When asked how he felt when someone in the group did better than him, Desmond replied that he would be "a bit unhappy" back then. "I feel that I've moved past that stage. I no longer lament about why it wasn't me," he shared, which Desmond also agreed.
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