Vic Sotto

Vic Sotto, is a Filipino actor, singer and comedian known far and wide for his various television and film projects on the major Philippine television networks GMA, TV5, and ABS-CBN. He is one of three pioneer hosts of Eat Bulaga!, which is the longest-running Philippine noontime variety show. Sotto is also a veteran actor and host in the entertainment industry.

He owns the film and TV production company M-Zet Productions. Sotto won four consecutive titles for Philippine Box Office King from 2004 to 2006 awarded by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation Awards, and received three nominations for Best Actor at the Metro Manila Film Festival.

Early life
Marvic Castelo Sotto was born on 28 April 1954 in Manila, Philippines. His parents were Marcelino Antonio Ojeda Sotto and Dr. Herminia Castelo. His mother was a staunch women's rights activist and the first Medical Commissioner of Workmen's Compensation Commission and President Emeritus of the Kababaihang Rizalista ng Pilipina. He has three brothers: Maru, Tito, and Val. All four of them became prominent in the Philippine entertainment industry.

Vic comes from a notable political family in the Philippines. His paternal grandfather was Vicente Sotto y Yap, who infamously authored the Press Freedom Law of 1946 during his term in the Senate. His granduncle, Filemon Sotto y Yap, also served as a member of the House of Representatives for four consecutive terms and a senator in the early 1900s. Tito Sotto, his brother, served as a senator in from the 1990s to the 2010s.

He studied at Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Intramuros, Manila.