Simone Heng interviews Lewis Hamilton

Simone Heng is a Singapore-born Australian TV and radio presenter based in Dubai. (Simone gets her exotic looks from a Chinese Singaporean father and a Portuguese Eurasian mother). At just 27, Simone has worked as a broadcaster in Australia, South East Asia and the Middle East.

She hosts Workforce Requests, the highest-rating English radio show in the 10am to 1pm time belt on Dubai's leading English radio station 104.4 Virgin Radio. She was part of the on-air team which won the 2010 Best In Dubai Award for Best English Radio Station.

A true broadcaster, Simone also fronts season 1 and 2 of the expatriate travel TV show Dubai 101 currently airing on Dubai One. The promotional trailer for Dubai 101 Season 1 won the 2010 Gold award for Best Entertainment show promo at Promax BDA Middle East. Simone also co-hosted Dubai One's LIVE coverage of the Dubai International Film Festival 2009.

Simone has had unprecedented commercial success as a non-Arab entertainer in the Middle East. In just two and a half years she's been tagged as Dubai's most fashionable broadcaster and is one of the city's most photographed women. She garners daily coverage across radio, television, print and social media and most recently has been honoured with a series of ambassadorial roles and awards. This year she was made brand ambassador for Blackberry in the United Arab Emirates and chosen as the first of the Philip Stein watch brand representatives for the Middle East.

She is currently nominated for Personality of the Year in the 2011 Ahlan! Best in Dubai Awards and in 2010 was nominated for Female Personality of the Year. In 2010 she was named the 18th hottest woman in radio according to a global poll on www.popcrunch.com. In both 2011 and 2010 she was featured in the city's list of the most influential professionals as part of the Ahlan! Hot 100. In 2010 she was also named as an ambassador for Viva Magazine for her role as one of the 10 most inspirational women in the Gulf.

Across South East Asia, Australia and the Middle East, Simone has been featured in The Sunday Times Magazine, The West Australian, Seventeen, FHM, Maxim, Shape, New Man, Female, The National, The New Paper, Viva, Chalk, Ahlan!, Ok!, Grazia, Emirates Woman, Metro, Manual, Chic, Smitten, The Khaleej Times, 8 Days, The Insider, IQ, Time Out, Aquarius and many more publications.

Prior to her work in the Middle East, Simone was based in Australasia for four years. She was made the first face of the Home Box Office network at just 22. From 2006 to 2008 Simone fronted HBO Asia's movie show HBO Central with daily exposure to 300 million cable subscribers across the continent. In her final year at HBO Simone entered the world of radio on Singapore's underdog English station, Power 98FM, after 8 months with the station Simone was scouted by Virgin Radio International and relocated to Dubai.

In addition to her TV and radio work, Simone is also a skilled writer with a Communications and Cultural Studies degree from Curtin University in Australia (where she graduated in the course's top 10%). She also penned a popular relationships column for a Singaporean national newspaper from 2006 to 2009. A year-long scholarship at 17 to Switzerland means that in addition to understanding Mandarin, Simone can also speak German and Swiss.

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