Rhea Santos

Rhea Santos-de Guzman (born June 1, 1979) is a former broadcast journalist, television host and newscaster in the Philippines. She is known for co-anchoring GMA Network's morning show Unang Hirit and hosting several news and public affairs programs including Reporter's Notebook and Tunay na Buhay. After 19 years being a broadcast journalist, she left the Philippines to study in Canada.

In this Philippine name for married women, the birth surname or paternal family name is Santos, and the marital name is de Guzman.
Rhea Santos
Born (1979-06-01) June 1, 1979
San Mateo, Rizal, Philippines[1]
Nationality Philippines
Alma materSt. Paul University Quezon City
OccupationTV host, newscaster, news correspondent
Years active2000[2]–2019[3]
EmployerGMA Network (2000–2019)
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1][2]
TelevisionUnang Hirit
Tunay na Buhay
Reporter's Notebook
Spouse(s)
Carlo de Guzman
(
m. 2004)
Children2

Early life

Rhea Santos was born on June 1, 1979[4] in San Mateo, Rizal and stayed most of her childhood in Marikina.[1] She has an older brother and a younger brother.[1] She finished elementary and high school at St. Scholastica's Academy of Marikina.[4][5] She graduated magna cum laude at St. Paul's College Quezon City (now known as St. Paul University Quezon City) finishing AB Mass Communications.[4][6] One of her project in her freshman year in college was interviewing Arnold Clavio (her future co-anchor in Unang Hirit) about martial law.[7] She had an internship at ABS-CBN in her junior year in college.[2]

During her senior year in high school, it became clear to her that she would like be a broadcast journalist.[2] Although, her childhood dream was to become a beauty queen[2][7] and her mother fully supported her.[1][7] With that, she participated in the 1996 Body Shots competition where she became one of the finalists and won the "Best in Swimsuit" special award.[6][8] Standing at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m),[1][2] she was once a commercial and ramp model and an endorser for some products.[9] She also auditioned for Binibining Piipinas but after an argument with her mother in front of the judges, she did not pursue it.[2]

Career

Upon graduating from college, Rhea Santos worked for an airline company and a PR firm.[7] Eventually, she decided to follow her aspiration to become a broadcast journalist and began to send job applications to television networks.[6] In July 2000, GMA Network replied on her application and started to work there as a segment producer.[2] One day, she had the opportunity to be one of the newscasters and hosts of GMA Network's morning show Unang Hirit, temporarily replacing Miriam Quiambao who was absent for a day.[6] She eventually became a regular of the show in 2001.[10]

In 2003, she was assigned to anchor Frontpage's segment GMA Action Force where she was also a field reporter interviewing different people such as criminal gangs in Tondo, Manila.[11] In 2004, she had her own show At Your Service-Star Power.[10] In the same year, she co-hosted Eat Bulaga! Silver Special, which was a co-production of TAPE Inc. and GMA News and Public Affairs, with her fellow anchor in Unang Hirit, Arnold Clavio.[12] The following year, GMA launched Pinoy Abroad, which she co-hosted with Ivan Mayrina.[10]

She had anchored prime time newscast News on Q (previously aired by QTV, renamed as Q and eventually became GMA News TV) from 2005[10] to 2010.[13] She also hosted public affairs program Women's Desk (later re-titled as Draw the Line) in 2005[10][14] and documentary show DoQmentaries in 2008[10][15] along with other presenters Connie Sison[16] and Pia Arcangel.[17] She co-hosted Reporter's Notebook with Jiggy Manicad in 2009 where she reported from the field and covered high profile cases such as the Maguindanao massacre.[13]

Santos left Reporter's Notebook in 2011 to host Tunay na Buhay,[18][19] a television program that features biographies of celebrities, which was first aired on January 21, 2011.[20] In 2013, she guested at The Ryzza Mae Show.[21] In 2016, she hosted the television special entitled Imagine You & Me: The Journey, which is a documentary for the film Imagine You & Me, starring the AlDub love team of Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza.[22][23] In 2018, she anchored the Lenten special of Unang Hirit where they broadcast live from Israel.[24]

In 2019, she retired as a broadcast journalist after leaving the Philippines together with her family to pursue her further education in Canada taking up Broadcast and Online Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.[3] With her 19 years experience in the television news industry in the Philippines, she has covered and broadcast major events during the 2000s and 2010s such as the Philippine national elections of those times, State of the Nation Addresses of Philippine Presidents Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Benigno Aquino III and Rodrigo Duterte, the 9/11 attack in New York, United States, the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, and Philippine Chief Justice Renato Corona's impeachment trial.[25][10][13] She has been the longest-serving female morning newscaster in the history of Philippine television.[13]

Personal life

On September 17, 2004, Rhea Santos married businessman and Hotshots Burger chain owner, Carlo de Guzman.[26] They have two children nicknamed Uno and Yuan.[27] Aside from being a media personality, she had a baking business through Curious Chef Philippines.[7][9] In 2010, she was named by Spot.ph, an entertainment website, as the third most hottest television newswomen in the Philippines.[28]

The last appearance of Santos in Tunay na Buhay features her life story.[29]

Filmography

Television

Accolades
Year Nominee / work Award Result
2001 Unang Hirit 15th PMPC Star Awards for Television - Best Morning Show Host[10] Won
2002 Unang Hirit 16th PMPC Star Awards for Television - Best Morning Show Host[10] Won
2002 Rhea Santos 16th PMPC Star Awards for Television - Most Promising Female TV Personality[4] Nominated
2004 i-Witness: ABAKADA ni Ina 2004 Catholic Mass Media Awards - Best TV Magazine Show[13] Won
2005 At Your Service: Under the Sea Special 2005 U.S. International Film and Video Festival - Gold Camera Award[10][33] Won
2006 Pinoy Abroad 20th PMPC Star Awards for Television - Best Travel Show Host[10] Won
2008 Unang Hirit 22nd PMPC Star Awards for Television - Best Morning Show Host[10] Won
2013 Unang Hirit 27th PMPC Star Awards for Television - Best Morning Show Host[10] Won
2015 Unang Hirit 29th PMPC Star Awards for Television - Best Morning Show Host[10] Won
2016 Tunay na Buhay 30th PMPC Star Awards for Television - Best Documentary Program Host[34][35] Nominated
2017 Unang Hirit Gawad Tanglaw Awards 2017 - Best Morning Show Host[10] Won
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