Gretchen Malalad

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Gretchen Malalad
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Boac, Marinduque, Philippines
EducationUniversity of Santo Thomas, (BA)

Gretchen Malalad (born 1980) is a

2005 Southeast Asian Games karate gold medalist and a former beauty pageant contestant in Binibining Pilipinas 2003 where she emerged Ms. Talent and Ms. Red Bull Supreme. She is native from the Duyay, Boac, province of Marinduque. She was also a housemate in Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 1
.

Martial arts career

A

Southeast Asian Games, the 60 kg Individual Kumite and Open Weight Individual Kumite competitions. She, along with other karate national team members, trained in Italy under Italian world karate champion Giuseppe Romano to prepare for the 2005 SEA Games hosted by the Philippines. They met Romano in 2004, when they joined a competition he organized in Torino, Italy.[1]

Malalad was a bronze medalist in

Southeast Asian Games competitions. [1]

Pinoy Big Brother

Gretchen left the house after Big Brother allowed Gretchen to report to her superiors in the Philippine Air Force (where she serves as a first-class airwoman) to face a summary investigation about her being

AWOL
. Big Brother did this with the proviso that she will be blindfolded during the trip and that she cannot speak to anyone except those who were investigating her. She must also be returned to the house 24 hours after she left. She returned 14 hours later after the Philippine Air Force officially authorized her to continue her stint in the show. Then she was later evicted on Day 39.

Education and sports career

Malalad holds a MS from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in the city of New York class of 2014. She graduated from University of Santo Tomas with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts.

In 2004, Malalad worked as a courtside reporter for

ABC Sports' (now Sports 5's) coverage of the PBA games. Prior to that, she worked in the Philippine Basketball League
as an in-house courtside reporter for a brief period.

Malalad was voted as Philippine Karate Federation by more than 230 clubs and associations from all over the country during elections at the Fisher Mall in Quezon City on February 17, 2019.[2]

Recent ventures

Malalad became a Fitness Teacher in

Manila Broadcasting Company since 2015. She currently works as a freelance journalist in the Philippines, collaborating regularly with Agence France-Presse and Al Jazeera
.

Personal life

Malalad, an

muriatic acid and she secretly poured it into the pets' drinking bowl causing some of them to suffer from eye irritation."[3]
Earlier, she rescued abandoned cats at Dasmariñas, Makati. In collaboration with Pawssion Project Rescues PH-CARA Welfare Philippine, she protested the Village's administrative order not to feed the pets, invoking Republic Ac No. 8485 "The Animal Welfare Act of 1998."[4]

Malalad wed her longtime partner, French businessman Jean-Marc Hauducoeur in a ceremony held at Alon Garden and Sagana Ballroom, Punta Bunga Beach (located behind the cape with Kalikugan cave, close to Balinghai Beach) in Boracay on January 24, 2024. Present in the wedding party are Manalad's mother, Maricel, her siblings Tyrone and Jean-Marc with Marcus Manalad, Jean-Marc Hauducoeur's daughters Marion Hauducoeur Sverner and Matilde Hauducoeur, Pia Gutierrez, Zen Hernandez, Atom Araullo, Jeff Canoy, Adrian Ayalin, Niko Baua, Dennis Datu, Ryan Chua, Jenny Reyes, Jam Alindogan, and Nadia Trinidad.[5]

See also

  • Karatedo at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games

References

  1. ^ "How Gretchen Malalad turned an Italian gig to gold".
  2. ^ "Sports".
  3. ^ Batallones, Jeck (November 21, 2023). "Maid accused of trying to poison cats admitted deed, village chief says". ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs.
  4. ^ Requintina, Robert (October 5, 2020). "Gretchen Malalad hits alleged cruelty to animals in posh village". Manila Bulletin.
  5. ^ Krishnann, Daniel (January 24, 2024). "Former ABS-CBN reporter Gretchen Malalad marries longtime partner". ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs.
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