Even though her mum, who is a pastry chef, couldn’t be at the finals due to work, Dobson told us she found a way around it.
“My mum secretly hid her phone in a box and watched the live stream on TikTok.
“She commented ‘Mummy loves you!’ when I was announced as the winner and my friend managed to take a screenshot,” she laughed.
Her Thai mother and British father, both 49, met in Thailand before relocating to Singapore for work.
They later had Dobson and her older brother, who is a year older, here.
However, her parents divorced when she was about five years old.
Though Dobson said she isn’t especially close to her dad, who now lives in Belgium and works in the engineering field, they still meet up during the festive season and special occasions.
We also found out that despite growing up in Singapore and going to local schools (Kheng Cheng Primary School followed by Peirce Secondary School), Dobson is still a permanent resident and currently holds both British and Thai citizenship.
According to her, she loves her life here, though she isn’t quite ready to make the call to become Singaporean just yet.
“I’m not sure if my mum would want to retire here so we’ll see,” she said.
So, what’s next for Dobson?
“Definitely hitting the airwaves and having my own show!” she said excitedly, telling us that she hopes she would be able to focus on topics like psychology and even mental health.
Heavy stuff. But Dobson thinks of it as a sort of calling.
“I’m not sure whether you feel it, but I it seems more and more people are getting depressed easily and I want to be able to help them through all of that,” she mused.
Though it’s early days, Dobson told us that beyond radio, she has big dreams of having her own TED Talk one day.
“I have a lot of friends who come to me for advice, and someone even floated the idea to me, and it just sparked a ‘Really?’ in me ever since,” she said.
