Nene Tamayo was one of the 13 housemates of ABS-CBN's

ABS-CBN

ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...

 Pinoy Big Brother

Pinoy Big Brother

Pinoy Big Brother is the Philippine version of the reality television show Big Brother . It follows the same premise as its many foreign counterparts around the world: twelve Philippine residents are forced to live with each other inside a house for about 3 months or at least 100 days...

, Season 1

Pinoy Big Brother (season 1)

Pinoy Big Brother, Season 1 officially started August 21, 2005 with an extravagant presentation by ABS-CBN. The first season ended December 10, 2005, with Nene Tamayo of Romblon emerging as the first-ever winner taking home the grand prize worth six million pesos 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

Clark Air Base

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, Angeles City

Angeles City

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, Pampanga

Pampanga

Pampanga is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the City of San Fernando, Pampanga. Pampanga is bordered by the provinces of Bataan and Zambales to the west, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija to the north, and Bulacan to the southeast...

 on December 10, 2005.

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

Allusion

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 to Energizer batteries

Battery (electricity)

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) 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

TV Patrol World

TV Patrol is the flagship national network news broadcast of ABS-CBN in the Philippines. It is aired Monday to Friday from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., Saturdays from 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Sundays from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m....

 and indeed became the host of its segment Citizen Patrol. She is set to be awarded by the ABS-CBN's

ABS-CBN

ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...

 show Pipol with the "2005 Pipol of the Year" award after defeating the co-nominee Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao

Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

 under the "Sports and Entertainment" Category.

In 2006, she became a finalist of the ABS CBN dance show U Can Dance

U Can Dance

U Can Dance is a reality dance competition TV program in ABS-CBN hosted by Iya Villania and Derek Ramsay.-Hosts Information:Iya Villania – this popular young celebrity was discovered in a singing competition in Australia. Ever since relocating here in the Philippines, Iya has been successful at...

. Tamayo is currently a member of ABS CBN's circle of homegrown talents named Star Magic

Star Magic

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. She also appears as a regular in UNTV 37's morning program Pilipinas, Gising Ka Na Ba?

External links

• Nene's Pinoy Big Brother Page
• http://pbb1nene.blogspot.com/ Nene Tamayo's official website
• http://www.twitter.com/nenetamayo Nene Tamayo on twitter
• http://www.facebook.com/bangusardines Nene Tamayo's Business
• TV Guesting at Telebisyon.net