Jovit Baldivino, 16, a born Batangueno, took home the first Pilipinos Got Talent (PGT) grand winner title held at Araneta Coliseum, Cubao.

Jovit vested the other 11 grand finalists from around the archipelago getting 48.81% or almost half of the total votes.

Jovit was a just a poor siomai vendor before he joined PGT. Not anymore, because along with the title, he won 2 million pesos.

“Gusto ko pong matulungan yung mga kapatid ko, yung pamilya ko,” Jovit answered when Kris Aquino asked him what he asks for to ABS-CBN and to the Filipino people.

From thousands of talented Pinoy who auditioned, the 36 semi-finalists were deduced to 12. Each of the twelve grand competitors was assigned to a group to form unique production numbers.

Velasco Brothers and Baguio Metamorphosis joined Jovit Baldivino in the top three. The two received 100,000 pesos each while the other nine finalists got 50,000 pesos each.

Luis Manzano and Iya Villania hosted the grand competition. Joining them were of course the judges, Kris Aquino, Ai-ai delas Alas and FMG.

Present in the event were ABS-CBN heads lead by Miss Cory Vidanes.

Fox News has revealed the 4th judge of the upcoming Season 9 of the American Idol and that was Ellen de Generes, host of the “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”. She will be replacing Paula Abdul who resigned from the show recently. She will be joined with judges Kara DioGuardi, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson. This would be very exciting as Ellen joins the American Idol Season 9 that will open this coming January 2010.

Are You the Next Big Star?, a reality based singing contest is about to have its final face off. Six remaining contenders Camille, Francheska, Zyrene, Jay, Geoff and Alex will face their biggest challenge of who will be among them will emerge as new stars. The Grand Finalist vying for the title of the Next Big Star, 1 Miliion pesos cash prize a Condominium unit from Avida Towers and an exclusive GMA-7 management and recording contract will give their best to win. Hosted by Asia’s Songbird Regine Velasquez and Kempee de Leon, Grand Finals will be on August 23 only at GMA.

GMA 7′s Celebrity Duets is now on its 3rd season starting August 29. Hosted by Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez, it will feature celebrities like you’ve never seen them before to sing and perform live. Tessa Prieto Valdez and Chairman Bayani Fernando of MMDA stand out on its previous season. Celebrity Duets Season 3 premieres August 29, Saturday after Pinoy Records.

Former Comedy Show Duplex Actress Janice Jurado will be featured in “I Survived ” tonight with broadcast-journalist Ces Orena-Drilon. Janice will share how she overcome her drug addiction that nearly took her life that time. Also her near death experience as she took a 10 shots of nalbuphine, a pain killer drug that put her life into a coma stage for almost a year. After some series of soul-searching and counselling, she is now a drug-free person. Through this interview with Ces, she will be a warning to others not to do the same thing. See more of Janice’s surviving experience tonight,after Bandila.

GMA-7′s Are You the Next Big Star? have already chose its Circle of 16 contenders buying for the title as the newest singing sensation. Prizes awaits the winners were an exclusive contract with GMA-7, P1Million pesos in cash and a condo unit from Avida Land. Most of the chosen contenders have already made their stints as a commercial models and appeared in some shows. These circle of 16 will face the 10 weeks of challenge for them to be the next big star. Among the 16, 6 of them will remain to the finals and two of them, a boy and a girl, will be hailed as the Nex Big Star. They will also undergo series of workshops in singing, acting, dancing and personality development and a series of mall shows starting June 20 in different SM Malls. Are You the Next Big Star? airs every Saturday after Pinoy Records.