{"id":934943,"date":"2026-10-20T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934943\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:50:14","slug":"romeo-tan-owns-5-power-banks-says-his-co-stars-know-they-can-always-borrow-from-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934943\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo Tan owns 5 power banks, says his co-stars &#8216;know they can always borrow&#8217; from him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Different people collect different things, and for Romeo Tan, it seems to be all about power banks.<\/p>\n<p>In the new Mediacorp medical drama Keep It Down, the 41-year-old plays an unkempt and rebellious psychotherapist who has a penchant for dating older women, and overcomes his \u201caddiction\u201d only after meeting a passionate and independent urologist, played by Paige Chua.<\/p>\n<p>While Tan may not share his character&#8217;s interests in real life, he does have an interesting obsession of his own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really like buying power banks. Whenever I see new technology being released or a power bank with a larger capacity, I\u2019ll go and buy it,\u201d he said in an interview with zaobao.sg. \u201cI think it\u2019s an obsession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romeo Tan also dislikes seeing his phone battery run low and wants to own the best and fastest-charging power banks available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as my phone battery drops to 70 per cent, I start getting nervous and looking for a power source to charge it,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n<p>The actor also quipped that his co-stars enjoy having him around because \u201cthey know they can always borrow a power socket or a power bank\u201d from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Different people collect different things, and for Romeo Tan, it seems to be all about power banks. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,480,134],"class_list":["post-934943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}