60YO Malaysian is a star on German cooking competition programmes


Macartney is the oldest contestant on Season 13 of The Taste and says it was a pretty grueling experience. — Photos: DOREEN MACARTNEY

Although Doreen Macartney is now in her 60s, the thriving artist is proof positive that age is nothing but a number.

Macartney is a Malaysian who moved to Germany in the 1980s upon her marriage to her first husband, a German national.

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