{"id":77917,"date":"2026-08-20T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=77917"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:49:01","slug":"noah-yap-responds-to-criticism-over-roxy-square-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=77917","title":{"rendered":"Noah Yap responds to criticism over Roxy Square visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->Singapore actor Noah Yap has hit back at online critics who accused him of visiting an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/police-report-made-after-elderly-man-allegedly-pushed-to-ground-for-patting-girls-head?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">injured elderly hawker at Roxy Square<\/span><\/a> as a publicity stunt to <!-- -->\u201c<!-- -->fight for the limelight<!-- -->\u201d<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The 32-year-old star of local movie franchise Ah Boys To Men (2012 to present) addressed the criticism on social media on Aug 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">This was two days after an altercation involving 73-year-old wonton noodle seller Yeo Song Khoon at the Roxy Square coffee shop in East Coast Road that went viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A netizen alleged Yap had visited the hawker\u2019s stall to \u201cshow concern and gather publicity\u201d, adding that Yap was a \u201csmart actor fighting for limelight immediately before others\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Yap, who now stars<!-- --> in Channel 5 police drama Yes Captain!, said his links to Yeo predates the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He said he has been a regular customer of Bei-Ing Wanton Noodle for more than 20 years, dating back to his primary school days. Yap added that Yeo and his family would <!-- -->always <!-- -->ask about him whenever he visits the stall, adding that \u201cUncle practically saw me grow up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"responsive-iframe-base instagram instagram-embed\" title=\"instagram embed\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcFs-0yH871\/embed\/captioned\/?omitscript=true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer;falseclipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\" loading=\"eager\" data-testid=\"responsiveIframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Yap wrote in his post that after hearing about the incident, he decided to visit Yeo the following afternoon to check on him, and posted about the encounter to raise awareness about what had happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cGet a life la. I\u2019m not as free as you think,\u201d Yap added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">His response came after a video of a scuffle between a young man and Yeo at the coffee shop went viral on Aug 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to accounts from Yeo and his family, Yeo was walking past a table after closing his stall when he noticed a young girl, <!-- -->whom<!-- --> he thought was adorable, seated there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Yeo said he reached out and patted the child on the head.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Police report made after elderly man allegedly pushed to the ground for patting girl\u2019s head\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_DOr2nXfNI0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The girl\u2019s father subsequently confronted him. CCTV footage shared online appeared to show the younger man grabbing Yeo and shoving him to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The police have confirmed that a report was lodged and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Yap visited Yeo on Aug 16 and found him to be in good spirits, although Yeo was initially reluctant to seek medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In his social media post, Yap stressed that \u201cviolence is never the answer\u201d and that people should show more kindness to one another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/life\/entertainment\/noah-yap-hits-back-at-criticism-of-him-visiting-roxy-square-hawker-to-seek-limelight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Singapore actor Noah Yap has hit back at online critics who accused him of visiting an injured elderly hawker at Roxy Square as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}