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Dr. Eugenio "Boy" Abunda Jr.
TV Host, Producer, Talent Manager, Publicist, Celebrity Endorser at ABS-CBNA simple boy, born and raised in a nipa hut in windswept Borongan, Eastern Samar.
Elementary was at the Borongan Pilot Elementary School. High school was spent at the seminary where he was exposed to reading, and learned the rudiments of discourse. He earned a Masters Degree in Communication Arts and eventually a doctoral degree in Social Development from the Philippine Women's University.
Boy was a salesman, a tour guide, a theater stage hand, and soon after a Public Relations Director for the Manila Metropolitan Theater. From theater, he moved to television, where he has since led a flourishing career.
He currently hosts television shows on ABS-CBN: Tonight with Boy Abunda, Inside the Cinema, and the 2011 Asian Television Awards Best Talk Show awardee, The Bottomline.
He is a formidable endorser and a public relations authority. A brand and creative development lead, and of course, a respected talent manager.
He is Arts Ambassador for the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, a former champion of the United Nations Population Fund, and a service ambassador for the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology.
He also teaches at the EmpowerU program of the University of Hong Kong and at The Boy Abunda Talk Workshop that covers Public speaking, Hosting and Interviewing and the Q&A.
He founded the Make Your Nanay Proud Foundation and creates inspirational books such as It’s Like This and Nanay’s Gay Boy.