Simone Heng
"Simone Hui Shan Heng" (born 25 April 1984) is a Singaporean-born Australian. She has a degree in Communications and Cultural Studies from in Curtin University.Perth, Western Australia, where she majored in Literary Studies and minored in Performance Studies. In 2005, Simone moved from Perth to Singapore and began her presenting career as a VJ for cable music station Channel [V] International which is aired across South-east Asia and the Middle East. She went on to work in the Philippines, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia and has starred in numerous English-speaking dramas in Singapore. In 2006, she was the brand ambassador for haircare giant Sunsilk in the Philippines and Thailand.
In 2006, Simone was appointed as the face of the Home Box Office network in Asia which has an audience of 300 million subscribers in 24 countries. The energetic movie and entertainment news show, HBO Central, which Simone fronts, makes her one of the youngest and most widely-exposed FACES on Asian TV. In April of the same year, Simone became Singapore’s youngest ever national newspaper columnist with her witty Sexless In The City pieces in The New Paper.
In 2007, while completing her Communications degree in Perth (where she has since graduated in the top 1 per cent of students), Simone made her debut in the Australian TV market. She became the newest addition to Nine Network, Perth’s longest-running travel and lifestyle show Postcards WA. Simone is currently based in Singapore, continuing her hosting duties with HBO on HBO Central and now HBO Close Up. She was also filming the second season of her Kid’s Central series Record Breakers, which aired from 15 Dec.