''Taste Buddies'' is a
Philippine television
Television in the Philippines was introduced in October 1953 upon the first commercial broadcast made by Alto Broadcasting System (now ABS-CBN), making the Philippines the first Southeast Asian country and the second in Asia to do so. Even b ...
lifestyle informative show broadcast by
GMA News TV
GMA News TV (GNTV; visually rendered in its logo in all capital letters as GMA NEWS TV) is a 24-hour Philippine-based international pay television channel owned by Citynet Network Marketing and Productions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of GM ...
and
GTV. Originally hosted by
Solenn Heussaff
Solenn Marie Adea Heussaff-Bolzico (née Heussaff, ; born July 20, 1985) is a Filipino actress, model and singer. She was one of the official castaways of '' Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Showdown''. She made it to the Final Three.
In Decem ...
and
Isabelle Daza, it premiered on GMA News TV on October 27, 2012. In February 2021, GMA News TV was rebranded as GTV, with the show being carried over. The show concluded on June 26, 2022. Heusaff and
Gil Cuerva
Guillermo Ernesto Eleazar Cuerva, or simply known as Gil Cuerva, (born on August 21, 1995), is a Spanish Filipino actor and international model. Cuerva debuted as an actor on the tele-drama remake of the hit South Korean romantic-comedy-scifi ser ...
served as the final hosts.
Premise
The show features discovery journeys in new things about food, events, places and adventures.
Hosts
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Solenn Heussaff
Solenn Marie Adea Heussaff-Bolzico (née Heussaff, ; born July 20, 1985) is a Filipino actress, model and singer. She was one of the official castaways of '' Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Showdown''. She made it to the Final Three.
In Decem ...
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Isabelle Daza
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Iya Villania
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Rhian Ramos
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Gil Cuerva
Guillermo Ernesto Eleazar Cuerva, or simply known as Gil Cuerva, (born on August 21, 1995), is a Spanish Filipino actor and international model. Cuerva debuted as an actor on the tele-drama remake of the hit South Korean romantic-comedy-scifi ser ...
;Segment host
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Arra San Agustin
Arra Krisette San Agustin (born April 25, 1995) is a Filipino actress, host, model, and singer.
She was one of the top 6 finalists of the sixth season of '' StarStruck'', a reality-based talent search show of GMA Network. She is currently a ma ...
Production
The production was halted in March 2020 due to the
enhanced community quarantine in Luzon
The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon was a series of stay-at-home orders and ''cordon sanitaire'' measures implemented by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) on the island of Luzon a ...
caused by the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...
. The show resumed its programming on November 7, 2020.
Accolades
References
External links
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2012 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA News TV original programming
GTV (Philippine TV network) original programming
Philippine television shows
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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