Simon Deering, better known by nickname Hotdogs, was a contestant and 11th evictee of Big Brother Australia 2005.
Following this he was appointed host of The Up-Late Game Show, an interactive late-night game show on Network Ten, which screens in the early hours of each weekday in those months of the year when Big Brother is not running.
Deering appeared as guest on the 13 June 2006 edition of Big Brother UpLate and announced to host Mike Goldman that he had recently moved in with fellow Big Brother 2005 housemate Vesna Tofevski.
[citation needed] During his childhood years, Deering had a brief role in TV serial Home and Away, appearing as George Fisher, a petty criminal who stole a loaf of bread from Alf Stewart.
[citation needed] On 25 July 2005 Deering was at a Cairns, Queensland nightclub doing a promotional spot for Big Brother.