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Outstanding Professional Award 2015

Pilipinas until 1997. He was teamed up with broadcaster
Korina Sanchez in Aksyon Ngayon, which is a top public
service show. Ted Failon met and married Trinidad “Trina”
Arteche-Etong and they stayed together for 25 years. It was
in April of 2009, when Trina was rushed to the hospital for
sustaining a gunshot wound in her head which was the cause
of her death the next day. Ted was the one who rushed her
to the hospital and told the press he found her wife in the
bathroom and used his handgun in an attempt to kill herself.
Ted was arrested hours after the shooting incident but was
allowed to leave police custody to take care of his wife. He
was eventually tested negative for powder burns. Quezon
City police filed charges against the family driver and three
housemaids of the Failon family for allegedly tampering and

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