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August 15, 2009
Bending over backwards to give us the news, Gretchen Fullido is a welcome sight even when she’s telling us to get ready for heavy weather. At a time when everything is becoming reality TV, this broadcasting siren may be a talking head, but she doesn’t need a Teleprompter to have the first and last say.
Words by Chip Childers
“I guess I’m just passionate about my work. I think that someone who isn’t passionate about this job would rather just jump off a cliff than have to deal with this schedule….” I didn’t need any more convincing from Gretchen Fullido on this point.
After weeks of feeling like a dog chasing bumpers on Indy 500 race cars, I had finally caught up with Gretchen on a Friday night, in between dinner-time and a bedtime broadcast at the ABS-CBN studio. (The previous Sunday had mutated from a leisurely empty space in the calendar to a 6-broadcast day in a matter of hours, thus canceling our appointment.) With current duties handling showbiz, sports and weather for Dateline Philippines on ANC, as a field correspondent for Showbiz News Ngayon (SNN), and disc-jockey duties on Sports Talk Radio (DZMN teleradio), she also manages to squeeze in occasional slots on the sports show Hard Ball, News Central on Studio 23 and on TV Patrol World. Fullido seems to have found a way to thwart the confines of the 24 hour day.
For those who have witnessed Gretchen’s meteoric blitzkrieg into the living rooms of viewers nationwide, it seems impossible that there is just one of her, as she seems to be reporting on everything, everywhere. “I wish I could just divide myself, and assign each of the Me’s a different job. Sometimes I’m just like, ‘how the hell am I gonna do this alone?’” Writing, hosting and reporting on stories as diverse as the Police Beat for TV Patrol (“…every day there were massacres, rub outs, car nap, shoot outs…you see the dead bodies, the sites, the chases…) to the weather for Dateline (“I don’t get bored with the weather—its fun! When there’s a storm, you get a total adrenaline rush, warning people about what to do…”), Grecthen is well versed on multitude of topics. In fact, she writes all her reports, having entered ANC as a writer, not a newsreader.
Gretchen’s first time in front of the camera was as a courtside basketball reporter for the Fighting Maroons of the University of the Philippines, from which she graduated in 2008, covering games for the UAAP beginning in 2003. Her energetic reports and readily apparent enjoyment and rapport with team members (“they became like family to me”) are still remembered by basketball fans, and lead to work with ABS-CBN’s Star Magic, guest roles in soap operas, and further work with ANC. “I had to juggle my studies, UAAP, ANC, and on top of that, my varsity athletics,” she says, as if already preparing the impossibly jam-packed schedules she would be experiencing upon her graduation.
The complete article can be found in UNO’s July 2009 issue.
Sana maging cover din nila c paula taylor…
wow!!! she should have been on the cover!!!
Gretchen Fullido: Miss Deeds…
Bending over backwards to give us the news, Gretchen Fullido is a welcome sight even when she’s telling us to get ready for heavy weather. At a time when everything is becoming reality TV, this broadcasting siren may be a talking head, but she doesn’t …
She shouldn’t be on the news. I don’t know but there’s a credibility issue. Just saying.
You can find a very flattering write up of Gretchen here-
http://www.superlativenightwish.blogspot.com
Gretchin’ Gretchen! What a hottie!
grabe ang laki talga ng boobs ni grecthen fullido. Totoo bang nadali ni Craig David yan..ayus ah
i even heard from a barkada that he seen her with boom gonzales coming out from the lobby of holiday inn. this girl has been around alright.
she’s a total knockout! a true example of beauty and brains! she should be on the cover…classy and sophisticated, this girl will go places!
This girl’s going places? Man, she’s been going places, specially where there’s a bed.
pretty beuaty anu png words 2 describe u kaw lng kya me watch tv patrol
akin nlng kh8 boobs lng
Sana naman magdamit ka ng konting desente Ms. Fullido, at times medyo looking very cheap ka, bakit di ka magdamit tulad ng ibang newscasters, medyo desente sila. No offense naman sana sa iyo. Halos hubad ka na minsan eh, medyo malaki ka pa naman.