My Perfect Weekend with actress Hong Ling

Who: Hong Ling is a 30-year-old local actress who picked up two prizes at Star Awards 2025 on July 6. She triumphed in the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes category and won the Mypick! Most Emotional Performance award for her role as an investigator in the police’s sexual offence department, who grapples with her traumatic past, in the drama series Unforgivable (2024).

Over her 12-year career, the Mediacorp artiste has gained prominence in shows like My Guardian Angels (2020), You Can Be An Angel 4 (2022), Your World In Mine (2022) and All That Glitters (2023).

Hong – who is married to fellow actor Nick Teo, 35 – is taking the lead in fantasy drama The Spirit Hunter, showing on mewatch and Channel 8 on weekdays at 9pm. She plays a young woman tasked with defeating malevolent spirits after receiving a sword infused with a spirit.

“A perfect weekend would be, of course, not having to work at all – a full day off. My weekends usually start with a slow morning coffee, before I switch on music and pet my cats. I will then run some errands, have a nice dinner or maybe hang out with friends.

I recently spent the whole day with Nick. We woke up around 11am and went for a walk around the neighbourhood. We are moving soon, and were talking about how it had been a long time since we took a walk around.

We looked for a place that sells Vietnamese coffee and headed there, and had a very long lunch, chatting for about two hours.

I’ve also picked up a new hobby – pickleball. I love it and have been arranging to play with my friends over the weekends. These meet-ups are quite memorable as it has been a long time since I have gone out because of my busy filming schedule.

Downtime is very important for me. When I have projects, I don’t have weekends off. So, when I am off work, rest recharges my mind and soul.”