Singaporean YouTube stars Ryan and Sylvia of Night Owl Cinematics divorce after 10 years of marriage
- Ryan Tan and Sylvia Chan, whose Ryan Sylvia YouTube channel is one of Singapore’s most popular, announced the news in a video
- Tan also revealed his struggles with depression in an Instagram post where he touched on a suicide attempt while filming in Osaka in 2017
The couple behind smash YouTube channel Ryan Sylvia are a true Singaporean success story.
Ryan Tan and Sylvia Chan – co-founders of lifestyle production company Night Owl Cinematics (NOC) – have close to a million subscribers on YouTube and, according to Channel News Asia, have “seven-figure” annual revenue in Singaporean dollars (at least US$715,000). The couple were also named on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Asia list for media, marketing and advertising in 2016.
So when Tan and Chan recently revealed they had divorced after 10 years of marriage, the news sent fans into a tizzy. The revelation came in a 45-minute YouTube video which has received more than 1.2 million views since it was uploaded on May 31.
The couple said that they had officially divorced in March this year. Their YouTube channel, they assured, would not be affected.
In the video, Tan and Chan acknowledge that expectations to maintain their success, coupled with the demands of fans and pressures to one-up every video they produced, had taken a toll on their relationship.
