Joey Mead
| Joey Mead-King | |
|---|---|
| Born | Manila, Philippines |
| Occupation | Television personality, fashion lifestyle host, runway coach, model mentor |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Website | www |
| Modeling information | |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) |
Joey Mead King is a Filipino-Iranian television personality, fashion lifestyle host, runway coach and is the model mentor/co-judge on popular reality show, Asia's Next Top Model cycles two and three.
Mead was born in the Philippines. Her mother, Josephine del Pilar-Mead, is a Filipina. Her biological father is of Iranian descent. When she was 4, she and her mother settled in Adelaide, Australia, with her Australian stepfather Leslie Bertram Mead. She was raised in South Australia until her early teen years.
She started her modelling career at 15, while living in Manila, then in Bangkok and Hong Kong. She picked up Australian and American accent tones from living in Australia and Asia, Joey has adapted her talent of imitating accents in work, making her a popular live & voice talent. Able to switch from Filipino, Australian, South African, American to British accents.
Currently based in the Philippines, Mead can speak basic Tagalog and understands Tagalog.
She was a video jockey for Channel [V] International in Hong Kong from 1996 to 2000. She appeared on over 30 Philippine magazine covers. She has done numerous TV commercials, ad campaigns and magazine covers in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and Indonesia. She has lived and worked in New York as a Ford model and is currently with Ford Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Joey Mead King was the first Philippine model to lead in a Head & shoulders shampoo commercial and a Lexus car commercial that both aired in the Canada.
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