Bernadette Lorraine Palisada Dominguez Sembrano-Aguinaldo (Tagalog:[pɐliˈsadadɔmɪŋˈgɛssɛmˈbɾanɔʔʔɐˈgɪnaldɔ]; born February 18, 1976), known professionally as Bernadette Sembrano is a Filipina reporter, news presenter, television host, musician, and author.[1]
Career
Newscasting career
Sembrano started with IBC as a newscaster in 1997 before moving to the GMA Network in 1998, where she was the anchor of GMA Network News and the first wishing program of the country, Wish Ko Lang!. From 1999 to 2004 she worked as the radio co-anchor in the noontime newscast Balita ng Bansa of DZAR Angel Radyo 1026 Manila by Nation Broadcasting Corporation (and later by Sonshine Media Network International in 2005). GMA terminated her contract on December 20, 2003, but she continued to work with Wish Ko Lang! until February 14, 2004.[2] She was then wooed by the rival ABS-CBN in 2004 where she hosted the public service show Lukso ng Dugo, an OFW Drama Anthology entitled Nagmamahal, Kapamilya and the morning show Magandang Umaga, Pilipinas. She also served as a correspondent for ABS-CBN's longest investigative journalism show, The Correspondents.
Sembrano was also a co-anchor on TV Patrol Weekend from 2005 to 2011, a newscaster on the DZMM radio station programs like Radyo Patrol Balita Alas Dose, Gising Pilipinas, and Radyo Patrol Balita Alas Kwatro (alongside Alex Santos), and a host of Salamat Dok, Umagang Kay Ganda, and other ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs programs. She later anchored the morning program Lingkod Kapamilya on DZMM and TeleRadyo until 2023.
On August 3, 2015, she was named permanent co-anchor of the weeknight edition of TV Patrol, succeeding Korina Sanchez. She later left Umagang Kay Ganda on October 2 to focus on her role as TV Patrol anchor.[3] When DWPM Radyo 630 was launched on June 30, 2023 as the successor of DZMM on the 630 kHz AM frequency, she began anchoring Tatak: Serbisyo alongside Winnie Cordero.
On May 5, 2021, one year after the ABS-CBN shutdown, Sembrano released her second single "Yakap", which she composed and performed. It was revealed that she initially planned to release the single in 2020, but Manalo suggested that the single be released on the network's first anniversary of being off-air instead.[8]
Personal life
In June 2008, she married Emilio "Orange" Aguinaldo IV, the great-grandson of the first President of the Philippines, Emilio Aguinaldo.[9] She suffered a miscarriage in 2018, as she revealed to have reproduction issues.[10]
In July 2011, Sembrano announced that she has Bell's palsy and underwent therapy.[11]
