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Cliff is Channel [V]'s mini-United Nations. The Australian-born model and host personifies the melting-pot reputation of the country which he was born and raised in. Having Australian, Chinese, Ukrainian, and German blood, Cliff is a hodge-podge of culture contained in a man's body.
Cliff, being a self-proclaimed student of the world, loves to backpack and travel to different countries with the objective of learning everything about life. And what excites him are meeting interesting people, and trying something new for the first time. Watch out for Cliff Cole, as he will eventually bring forth peace to this world someday!
 AREA is proud to introduce our latest celebrity model, Mia.
From her hometown of Vancouver, Canada, to the exotic hustle and bustle of Mumbai, India, Mia’s journey has made just as much of a mark on her as it has on the fashion and entertainment industry throughout Asia.
Born May 25th 1983, Mia Evonne Uyeda has had a unique and inspirational life from a very early age.
At the age of 14, while still at school, lady luck struck Mia as her international beauty was discovered by a renowned modeling agency outside of a convenience store in Vancouver. She was completely oblivious to what fate had in store for her and as fate would have it, Mia’s life would be turned upside down just a few years later, as she would embark upon a world of fashion, adventure and a whole lot of learning but not before finishing school and convincing her parents to let her take on the world that was so enticingly beckoning her.Mia’s local modeling assignments turned into international ones and she soon found herself on a whirlwind circuit of fashion shows, TV ads, campaigns, photo shoots in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Italy. The list was enviable as was the work but destiny had another plan in store as Mia’s adventures brought her to Bangalore India by photographer Waseem Khan for a one off modeling assignment.
This auspicious meeting in 2006 had a domino effect as 1 thing led to another and as they say the rest is history.
Before she knew it, Mia was calling the hustle and bustle, the lights and glamour of Bollywood, Mumbai her home, as the city welcomed her with open arms. The City embraced her on billboards, the countries biggest campaigns, fashion shows and the very prestigious and coveted Kingfisher calendar 2007, a landmark for only the top models of India.
There was no turning back now, Mia soon found herself hosting her very own MTV show – Saturday shuffle, gracing the cover of Elle, featured in L’ officiel, FHM, Maxim, the up coming calendar Alchem 2011 and having the honor of writing her very own sex article for GQ magazine since 2008 to date.
To add to her accolades, Mia has bagged the biggest campaigns in the country from Kaya skin clinic, Biseleri soda, Pantaloons, killer loop sunglasses and Sakhi sari’s to name a few. She’s walked for the countries most celebrated fashion week – Lakme in 2006. She has recently done a cameo in the highly anticipated, upcoming feature film release “TEES MAAR KHAN” by director Farah Khan.
Mia is a vivacious personality on and off screen and along with hosting live events and the top rated MTV Saturday shuffle, she has also anchored “Maharaja Route” a travel based car racing show all over India and abroad. Her talent for languages with her fluent French and English, conversational Portuguese and Hindi compliments her chameleon like exotic looks and appeal and has created a niche for her within the market place.
www.miauyeda.com
After plunging into the modeling business in 1999 in Hong Kong, Oli began his career appearing in ads for a number of renowned international brands that culminated in a year long Levis campaign and a role in the smash hit Hong Kong movie GEN Y COPS.
It was Oli’s decision to have a two week holiday in Singapore which allowed his career to skyrocket to even more exciting levels. Oli’s quick wit and easy demeanor helped him quickly climb the ladder from local photoshoots to magazines, international adverts, commercials, corporate videos, live hosting and finally heading an array of television shows. He is now based in Singapore, and with his personal discipline for hard work, the drive for professional excellence, and dedication to teamwork and creating a quality performance, the sky is the limit for this greatly in demand and popular television host.
His television hosting career started with the UN backed environmental show ECO 4 THE WORLD which then led to him being hired as lead anchor for Starhub’s coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2006 on WORLD CUP PRIMETIME.
His ability at handling the extensive details necessary for that show caught the eye of the AXN/Animax network, who selected him to host CYBERMAX exclusively for the Animax network, a show which covered the World Cyber Games in Singapore. The improvisational, comedic nature of the show appealed to Oli’s natural showmanship and overwhelming desire to make people laugh. This effort led him into the show TECHNOMAX for AXN/Animax, a high paced, funny show in which many would have lost their way under the intensive tech-babble.
The rampant success of TECHNOMAX allowed Oli to return as host for the second season of the primetime show SONY STYLE: Season Two on AXN, a role he had originally been forced to turn down. The success of SONY STYLE: Season Two across 20 countries and on the screens of 30 million households has turned Oli into one the region’s leading rising stars.
 Simone moved from Perth to Singapore and began her presenting career in 2005 as a vj for cable music station Channel [V] International which is aired across South East Asia and the Middle East. She has since worked in the Philippines, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia and has starred in numerous English-speaking dramas in Singapore. Heng was the Sunsilk brand ambassador in the Philippines with her telegenic face plastered on billboards, print ads and TVCs as well as the cover of Chalk.
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, fronting the movie and entertainment news show, HBO Central, makes her one of the youngest and most widely-exposed faces on Asian TV. In the same year Simone became Singapore’s youngest newspaper columnist with her witty Sexless in the City pieces in The New Paper. She is the county’s only media triple threat, working in publishing, radio and television concurrently.
Not content with conquering Asia, in 2007 Heng made her debut in the Australian TV market as a travel reporter on the long-running Postcards WA. The show made Simone one in a handful of Asian faces on Australian TV.
In 2008 she became the newest addition to the Power 98 family. Simone beat stiff competition for the lucrative role as evening drive time host. She can be heard, producing and presenting the all-new Power Cruisn’ with DJ Sebastian Mondays to Fridays from 5-8pm as well as her solo show Star Saturday 11 –1pm. Simone continues her monthly work with HBO which now gives her exposure daily on the channel across the region.
www.simoneheng.com
Stephanie Carrington exploded onto the international modeling scene almost 6 years ago and has since graced the covers of hundreds of international fashion magazines, billboards and numerous television commercials throughout Asia. Born to an American father and a Korean mother, Stephanie's energetic, vivacious and always infectious sunny personality has cemented her position as a top model in Asia and she has been the face of numerous campaigns for leading multi-national corporations throughout Asia.
In 2007, Stephanie made the inevitable switch over to TV & hosting, successfully landing her first lead role from her first audition by stomping out the extensive competition to host AXN's inaugural season of Sony Style. Having completed the first season of AXN's tech show, Stephanie decided to move on and broaden her hosting aspirations.
Based in Singapore, Stephanie has exponentially propelled her career in the last year. She has hosted numerous high profile events for international brands such as Audi, AXN, L'oreal, Redkin, Singapore Heart Foundation, Sony and the first ever launch of Sean John fragrance in Asia; appeared in numerous Asia-wide television commercials such as Lipton Tea, leading Asian property developers; made a cameo appearance by acting in a TV sitcom production in Singapore; and on top of all this, even found time to grace the covers and appear in numerous international magazine publications such as Women's Weekly, Arena, Newman, FHM Singapore, Seventeen, Female, Her World Brides and Shape Magazine.
Stephanie's young, personable, sophisticated and alluringly elegant talent provides for the perfect package – the girl next door at heart but a leading fashion model/host that is sure to continue to capture audiences all over Asia for many years to come.
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