Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul (ชิตพล ลี้ชัยพรกุล), better known by his stage name TEN (텐), is a Thai dancer and singer, born on February 27, 1996, in Bangkok, Thailand. He was casted into SM Entertainment in 2013 through SM's Global Audition in Bangkok and he was introduced as part of SM's pre-debut training team SMROOKIES as the first Thai idol on December 2013.
He officially debuted as a member of NCT, in the unit NCT U, with the single "The 7th Sense" on April 2016. In July, he became a contestant in the dancing survival show Hit The Stage. He debuted in the fourth NCT Chinese unit WayV with the EP The Vision in January 2019, and he debuted from a supergroup SuperM on October 2019.
In April 2017, TEN released his first solo single "Dream In A Dream" through SM STATION. In the same year, he joined the cast of the show Elementary School Teacher. His second SM STATION single "New Heroes" was released a year later.
Favorite Food: Chocolate cake, chocolate pudding, dark chocolate, sushi (especially tuna), naan, ddeokbokki, soondaegook, pad thai, green tea ice cream.
He loves Italian food and pork.
Favorite Color: Black
Favorite Number: 10.
Favorite Sport: Surfing, snowboarding
Hobbies: Adventures, playing sports, drawing, singing, dancing, rapping, playing with animals
Likes: Art, nature, music, candy, sweets, coffee, playing with his cats, watching movies.
Instruments: Guitar and piano.
He looks up to SHINee’sTAEMIN and SUPER JUNIOR'sDONGHAE. And his role model is Rihanna. Ten’s dream came true when he and Taemin are members of SuperM. They often hold hands, have conversations, and praised as well as compliment each other. Many fans ship them as “Tenmin”. It is revealed that Taemin and Ten met backstage during the dance competition show, “Hit the stage”. Taemin had a crush on Ten back then. They praised each other’s talent, dance and mannerisms. Taemin loves to put his arms around Ten when he’s around him.
He won the title “Teen Superstar” in 2011 at a talent show in Thailand under the name TNT.
He's Multilingual. He speaks Thai, English, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean.
He is one of the shortest NCT members. He doesn’t like to be called “Short-legged.”
He recently started learning Mandarin. He also start learning Japanese.
He likes coffee.
Ten doesn't like fruits.
He is friends with CLC’s Sorn, GOT7’s Bambam, BLACKPINK’s Lisa, and G-IDLE’s Minnie. And they often share a Thai group chat.
NCT
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SuperM