NENE TAMAYO

'Nene Tamayo'

'Received Titles'

★ Big Winner - Pinoy Big Brother Season 1 Big Night

'FAST FACTS'

Birth Name: Jennivev Santillan Tamayo

Alias: Nene Tamayo

Birth Place: Romblon, Philippines

Origin: Philippines

'Nene Tamayo' (born 'Jennivev Santillan Tamayo' on September 27, 1981 in Romblon, Philippines) was one of the 13 housemates of ABS-CBN's Pinoy Big Brother, Season 1. Finally after spending 111 days inside the house, Nene landed as the grand winner dubbed as ''The Big Winner'' garnering 554,906 votes or 48.9% of total votes in the Big Night held at Clark Expo Amphitheater, Angeles City, Pampanga on December 10, 2005.
Nene had once been thought of as a tomboy since she played boys' games and climbed coconut trees during her childhood years back in her hometown. She worked as a saleslady in Alabang Festival Mall on a Korean-owned cellphone store. She also worked as a secretary at the MLEU Law Offices. She studied Computer Engineering in University of the East but later shifted to Information Technology on the same college but is yet to acquire a degree.

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Life in Pinoy Big Brother

Life outside Pinoy Big Brother

External links

Life in Pinoy Big Brother

She's best known as the dancing diva and the 'astig' (tough) housemate because of her past military background as an ROTC officer in University of the East, thus ''Kumander Nene'' (Commander Nene) was her popular tagname. Nene is also known as ''Nenegizer'' (alluding to Energizer batteries) because of her strong and long-lasting stamina; this was given during the dance marathon challenge of the housemates.

Life outside Pinoy Big Brother

Nene is having second thoughts on building a career in show business, but she said if she would be given an opportunity, she wants to become a newscaster and be part of ABS-CBN’s news program, TV Patrol World and indeed became the host of it's segment Citizen Patrol. She is set to be awarded by the ABS-CBN's show Pipol with the "''2005 Pipol of the Year''" award after defeating the co-nominee Manny Pacquiao under the "Sports and Entertainment" Category.
In 2006, she became a finalist of the ABS CBN dance show U Can Dance. Tamayo is currently a member of ABS CBN's elite circle of homegrown talents properly named Star Magic. She also appears as a regular in UNTV 37's morning program ''Pilipinas, Gising Ka Na Ba?''
Also she was connected to fellow housemate, Bob dela Cruz, she later married dancer/choreographer Anthony Plamio, with whom they have son, Anthony Zane Jr.

External links

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★ 'Nene's Pinoy Big Brother Page'
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★ Pinoy Big Brother's Official Website
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