Singapore actor and host Gurmit Singh joins ConnectingDNA as Healthy Ageing Ambassador.
He brings a familiar public voice to the company’s DNA-guided wellness mission.
SINGAPORE, 27 November 2025. ConnectingDNA has named Singapore actor and host Gurmit Singh as its Healthy Ageing Ambassador, a recognisable public voice for a topic that often feels technical or distant.
Who is Gurmit Singh?
Gurmit Singh is one of Singapore’s best-known entertainers. He created Phua Chu Kang, the Singlish-speaking contractor whose sitcom ran from 1997 to 2007 and made him a household name in Singapore and its neighbours, and the role won him the Asian Television Award for best comedy actor five times. Since stepping back from full-time television in 2014 he has chosen his engagements carefully.
Why his voice carries
In 2017 he collapsed at a gym, and during a follow-up stress test his heart stopped and he was revived by CPR, as he told The Straits Times in December 2025 (the profile is republished by The Star). At 60 he trains almost daily and says he wants to live to 100.
“The older you are, the more you should preserve being healthy. Not the other way around.”
Gurmit Singh, to The Straits Times, December 2025
Her World described the DNA-guided programme he follows with ConnectingDNA: a report on his nutritional needs, his training approach and the lifestyle adjustments that suit him.
What supports healthy ageing?
Healthy ageing is supported by sustainable choices across movement, nutrition, recovery, sleep, social connection and appropriate professional care. Genetic information can add personal context to some of those choices, but it does not determine how someone will age. ConnectingDNA uses DNA as one stable baseline that can help people ask better wellness questions and build more personalised plans.
What DNA-Wellness means
DNA-Wellness uses insights from your DNA to help personalise how you eat, exercise, sleep, recover and live. Understand what makes your body different, make smarter wellness choices, and discover what may work better for you.
Update, February 2026. ConnectingDNA and Gurmit Singh have paused the ambassador engagement while projects on both sides are rescheduled, and both look forward to picking it up again when the calendars line up.
