Sugar Mercado

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Sugar Mercado in Eat Bulaga.

Sugar Mercado (full name: Maria Sugar Mercado) is a Filipina singer, dancer and actress. She is one of the cast members of the popular GMA Network noontime variety show Eat Bulaga.

1 Biography
2 Credits
- 2.1 Television
- 2.2 Movies
3 References
4 External Links

[edit] Biography

Sugar Mercado is the youngest of four siblings who along with her family lived in Cavite. They lived in a temporary house on top of a hog shed which was built in a tract of land owned by her grandfather. Sugar recounted that during her childhood, her family would sleep on strips of wood and that the roof over their heads would be constantly blown away during a typhoon. But things would eventually look up for her.

During Sugar's junior year in high school, she toured with the Gen. Mariano Alvarez Technical High School Band as a majorette. Later, she would join television beauty contests particularly Eat Bulaga's "TV Babe" segment in 2002. Sugar lost. Nevertheless she was signed on to join the SexBomb Girls...an association that lasted less than a year. Sugar decided to finish her studies and three years later, she served a six-month stint with the ABS-CBN noontime variety show Wowowee. Six months later, Sugar rejoined the SexBomb Girls and Eat Bulaga.

It was during the segment Laban o Bawi that Sugar figured in a freak mishap causing her to fall down and accidentally destroy the stage props inside the studio. Although she was repeatedly teased for this incident, Sugar nevertheless became a very popular fixture in Eat Bulaga.

Unfortunately, Sugar Mercado's rising popularity caused a rift between the Eat Bulaga management and the SexBomb Girls and amid much controversy, the two parted ways shortly thereafter. But Sugar remained and is now one of the very popular member of the show. She has now earned enough money to build a two-story house for her family in Cavite.

Besides her hosting duties and her regular appearances in the GMA Network sitcom Daddy Di Do Du, Sugar also performs at the Klownz and Zirkoh bars owned by fellow Eat Bulaga member Allan K. ^[1] She also appears in the new GMA Network drama series Makita Ka Lang Muli.^[2]