A hater even threw a bottle at him when he was walking along Orchard Road. Now 17 years after the singing competition, Joakim looks back at what he calls his “baptism of fire”.
On a recent episode of, a series where guests share heartfelt stories about their lives, Joakim, now 35 and a 987FM jock, looked back at his time on the show.Joakim admitted he “made it very easy” for people to hate him, and that he was just “getting by” through his looks.
“I used to say I regret Singapore Idol, but honestly, now I don’t. I consider it a baptism of fire,” he said.experience now, he shared that it took him years to work through it. “There was a point in time [when I was on the show that] I wanted to stay home and not even leave my house,” he said, adding: “The comments got to me, people in public were coming up to me and saying: ‘Eh, you suck!’ I remember once I was walking by Orchard Road, this guy just threw a bottle at me and all that.”
Joakim shared that he did get into “a few” fights here and there with hecklers, adding: “Thankfully, nothing too serious that made the news."But that’s all in the past now. In response to a question asking if he’s happy with where he is in life now, the jock answered immediately: “Definitely.” “I focused so much on my career,” he said, adding: “Whatever I've done, whatever I'm going to do, I feel that I've earned it in a way.”, Joakim went on to join 987 as a part-time DJ in 2012, before going on to become a full-timer with station in 2014.“Singapore Idol will always be a reminder of how bad it could get. So that's why, [it’s not that] I gotta be wholesome all the time, but don't give people the opportunity to attack you, you know what I mean?” he concluded.
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