Willie Revillame (born January 27, 1961) is a Filipino television host, singer, songwriter, businessman, actor, and comedian.
Revillame started out as the host of GMA Network’s noontime variety program Lunch Date in the early 1980s together with Randy Santiago.
After his hosting stint he started appearing on different movies playing a sidekick to big-named stars.
In 1998, he started co-hosting the ABS-CBN noontime show “‘Sang Linggo nAPO Sila.” His big break was Magandang Tanghali Bayan. He also started appearing in Richard Loves Lucy. Other shows of the ABS-CBN television channel that he hosted were “Willingly Yours”, Masayang Tanghali Bayan, and Wowowee, as well as TV5 variety programs like Willing Willie, Wil Time Bigtime and Wowowillie.
In March 2015, Revillame marked his homecoming in GMA Network (his original home network), his long-awaited return to Philippine showbiz and to Philippine television via his newest weekly-variety program Wowowin, airing on GMA Network every Sunday afternoon since May 10, 2015 until it became a weekday-variety program in February 2016 due to the huge popularity of the show.
Among his songs is Boom Tarat Tarat.
Personal Life of Willie Revillame
Revillame married Liz Almoro in a civil ceremony in Batangas in March 2005, officiated by Mayor Vilma Santos. This was followed shortly by a church wedding in June 2005; their marriage was annulled in 2008. Prior to his marriage to Almoro, Revillame was married to actress Princess Punzalan.
