Giselle Blondet Giselle Blondet, (born January 9, 1962) in New York City, United States, is a Puerto Rican actress and show host. Blondet became famous at around the age of 14, when she began to appear on Puerto Rico's telenovelas. As a soap opera actress, she was on many of Puerto Rico's soaps of the late 1970s, and the early 1980s.
In 1982 she married Luis Iglesias, a jewler in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They had one daughter. They were divorced in 1984. In 1986, she married the famous Bolivian actor Luis Abreu, with whom she had no children. She divorced Abreu in 1987. Around then magazines such as Vea, Teve GuÃa, etc, started talking of a supposed rivalry between her and Millie Avilés, another young Puerto Rican actress who resembled Blondet physically.
Blondet spent the rest of the '80s participating in different tv shows, soap operas and mini-series, as well as in some theatre plays. In 1987, her romance with actor Raúl Rosado was well publicized.
In 1989, she married producer Harold Trucco, and they had a son and a daughter. But this relationship also ran into trouble and they divorced in the middle 1990s. However, in 1998, her career took off internationally when she was given the opportunity to co-host Univisión's show Despierta América alongside Rafael José, Fernando Arau, Ana MarÃa Canseco, Neyda Sandoval and occasional host Samy, the famous Cuban hair-dresser and television personality, with Raúl González later replacing Jose and joining Blondet in the Despierta América host team. After divorcing Trucco, she has remained single, and she says she wants to dedicate her free time to her kids only.
Her children are: Andrea, a world-renowned chef who has been on Despierta América, Gabriela and Harold.
In 2005, Giselle Blondet released an autobiography and left Despierta América, to host a new television show about real-life tragedies.
