Willie Revillame, in real life is Wilfredo Buendia Revillame.
He started out as a professional drummer. He is the Philippine Master Rapper ‘Francis Magalona’ drummer during the rap explosion in the Philippines in the early 80’s.
In 1986, Randy Santiago discovered Revillame while he was performing in a play, and was hired as Randy’s sidekick in the defunct GMA Network noontime show “Lunch Date”, as a member of the cast and buddy of Randy Santiago, who in those days was a popular TV host on a reformatted noontime show, “Lunch Date” together with co-hosts Keno, Lito Pimentel , Louie Herredia and other famous star.
Revillame stayed for three months on the show and was signed up by Regal Films to star be Joey Marquez sidekick in the movie “Bobocop”, a spoof of the hit Hollywood movie “Robocop.”
Since then, Revillame has been cast in movies as sidekick to other known movie personalities such as Philip Salvador, Rudy Fernandez, Edu Manzano, Cesar Montano, Aga Muhlach, and others.
MAGANDANG TANGHALI BAYAN
In 1998, Willie became one of the co-hosts of “Magandang Tanghali Bayan (MTB)” together with best friends Randy Santiago and John Estrada.
After he was fired from the said show, Willie went on for a leave to the United States for a couple of months. He was thinking of retiring from showbiz and live a quiet life there. But his plans changed after getting a positive feedback from the Filipino-Americans who were with him during his stay.
It all started on there.
