''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 ...

lifestyle infotainment show broadcast by

GMA News TV GMA News TV (GNTV; visually rendered in uppercase in its logo) is a 24-hour Philippine-based international pay television channel owned by Citynet Network Marketing and Productions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of GMA Network Inc. It was ...

and GTV. Originally hosted by

Solenn Heussaff Solenn Marie Adea Heussaff-Bolzico (; born July 20, 1985) is a Filipino actress, model, singer and painter. She was one of the official castaways of '' Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Showdown''. She made it to the final 3. In December 2010 ...

and

Isabelle Daza Isabelle Diaz Daza-Semblat (; born March 6, 1988) is a Filipino actress, television host and model. She is the daughter of Miss Universe 1969 titleholder, Gloria Diaz. She was a member of GMA Network's roster of young talents and was introduce ...

, 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

Iya Villania Raelene Elaine "Iya" Villania-Arellano (born June 29, 1986), (), is a Filipino-Australian singer, actress, model, dancer, and television presenter. She has been widely known for her work as a VJ in the music channel Myx and as the ''Chika Minut ...

Rhian Ramos Rhian Denise Ramos Howell (born October 3, 1990), known as Rhian Ramos (), is a Filipino actress, commercial model, singer, host and race car driver. Life and career Rhian Denise Ramos Howell was born in Makati on October 3, 1990 to Gareth H ...

;Segment host *

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 was a mainstay o ...

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 (medicine), cordon sanitaire'' measures implemented by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EI ...

caused by the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

. The show resumed its programming on November 7, 2020.

Accolades

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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 infotainment shows Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic Television series by GMA Entertainment Group {{Philippines-tv-prog-stub