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WILLIE REVILLAME
Tuesday, 07 October 2008

WILFREDO BUENDIA REVILLAME (born January 25, 1961) popularly known as Willie Revillame, is a Filipino game show host, singer and comedian.

He rose to fame in the late '90s as sidekick to big-named movie stars before making his own mark in the business as a TV host for ABS-CBN's now defunct noontime variety show, Magandang Tanghali Bayan. Revillame currently hosts the noontime game show Wowowee, which is one of the network's most popular shows.

Revillame earned a living by becoming a drummer. But when he met Randy Santiago, who rose to fame via his trademark shades and the song Hindi Magbabago, his fortunes changed. Santiago hired him as his sidekick in the now-defunct GMA Network noontime show Lunch Date in 1986. Revillame stayed for three months on the show and was signed up by Regal Films to star alongside Joey Marquez in the movie Bobocop (bobo, meaning dumb), a spoof of the hit Hollywood movie Robocop. Since then, Revillame has been cast in movies as sidekick to other movie personalities such as Philip Salvador, Rudy Fernandez, Edu Manzano, Cesar Montano, Aga Muhlach, Dolphy, Vic Sotto, Joey de Leon and when he married Princess Punzalan, daughter of broadcasters Helen Vela and Orly Punzalan.

Willie was married to former beauty queen Liz Almoro in civil rites at Lipa, Batangas on March 2005 officiated by film star and town Mayor, Vilma Santos. This was followed shortly by a lavish church wedding in June 2005 that was sponsored by commercial entities and most probably ABS-CBN network. The wedding was adjudged by readers of YES Magazine as "Wedding of the Year" for 2005. He and his wife Liz now have a son, Juan Emmanuel (Juamee).

Despite the hoopla and extravaganza of Revillame's wedding and on-air vows of love and devotion to his wife, it was finally confirmed that Revillame's marriage is undergoing the process of annulment upon the instigation of Liz Almoro.

Willie has three daughters from previous relationships. One of his daughters, Meryll Soriano, who is an actress. On August 27, 2007, Willie's daughter Meryll gave birth to a baby boy named Elijah. It was Meryll's firstborn with ex-husband, actor Bernard Palanca and officially Willie's first grandchild.

 

 

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