Dubbed China’s Oprah Winfrey and known for her matchmaking and talk shows, Jin Xing is now looking to shine in Singapore.
SINGAPORE (Dec 20): "I’m a good matchmaker,” Jin Xing tells Options. “Because I know the people, [and] I think of how they can get together.”
Her Chinese name, Jin Xing, means Gold Star, or Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty — a particularly befitting coincidence.
Jin is known to millions of viewers in China as the hongniang (matchmaker) on reality TV show Chinese Dating with the Parents. She has also been a talk-show host and a judge on a dance competition show.
Her rise to the pinnacle of the entertainment industry in China was the culmination of a long journey that included gender reassignment surgery at the age of 28.