Tropang LOL

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***Tropang LOL*** (formerly ***Lunch Out Loud***) is TV5's late-morning (orginally noontime) variety show. It ran from October 19, 2020 to April 29, 2023.

## History

The show was first known as *Lunch Out Loud* that premiered on October 19, 2020, at 12NN as a regular daily noontime variety show. The encore episodes were subsequently aired on Cignal TV's cable channel Colours TV until the said cable channel closed down on December 31, 2021. The original hosts include Billy Crawford, Alex Gonzaga, Bayani Agbayani, K Brosas, Wacky Kiray, Ariel Rivera, KC Montero, Francoise "Laboching" Faisan, Mark Averilla (also known as Macoy Dubs) and Jeff Tam.

During the first week of the show, Alex Gonzaga said her entire family tested positive of the virus that's why she has not yet reported to her new noontime show on TV5. She was replaced by Isabelle Daza as guest co-host. Gonzaga finally appeared in November 2020 after getting her clean bill of health.

In April 2021, Macoy Dubs left the show due to end of his contract.

On November 8, 2021, OPM icon and resident show judge Ariel Rivera allegedly decided to leave the show because of cost-cutting reasons, ironically when LOL just celebrated its first anniversary on the air. The show's producers decided to reduce his exposure to three days in one week along with KC Montero and K Brosas. Accordingly, he did not report on that day. Before his sudden decision to leave, Rivera once expressed in an interview that he is not used to doing a daily show; but with LOL, he fell in love with it along with the cast—that was the reason why he stayed for long, and through LOL, people were able to see the other side of the OPM icon.

On December 18, 2021, Lunch Out Loud welcomed its new co-hosts: JN21 (JD Axie and Nick Parker), Querubin Gonzales, the Grand Champion of their *Buwayartista* segment, and Nikka Brillantes.

On January 1, 2022, Amazing Grace Cristobal joined Lunch Out Loud as a co-host when K Brosas and Isabelle Daza temporarily left the program.

On April 19, 2022, K Brosas officially left the show; as Brosas has no lines in the theme song, the show's producers decided to remove her and later hosted the new reality travel talk show program called *Lakwatsika* along with Ethel Booba. The show had a new theme song and set design. The *Buwayartista* alumni was still part of the show but later dismissed in May.

On July 16, 2022, Lunch Out Loud was reformatted as a late morning variety show with its new title *Tropang LOL*. The timeslot was moved to 11AM to 12:45PM.

The show ended on April 29, 2023, with *It's Showtime* reverting to it's original 3-hour timeslot. The show was replaced by *Face 2 Face*.

## Hosts

### Main hosts

* Billy Crawford (2020-2023)
* Alex Gonzaga (2020-2023)
* Bayani Agbayani (2020-2023)
* Wacky Kiray (2020-2023)
* KC Montero (2020-2023)
* Jeffrey Tam (2020-2023)
* Francoise Denyse Fainsan (a.k.a.|also known as "Laboching") (2020-2023)
* JD Axie (2022-2023)
* Alexa Miro (2022-2023)

### Other cast members

* LOL Babes (2020-2023)
* LOL Boys (2020-2023)
* Jacob Plaza (Kantrabaho Winner) (2020-2023)
* Mark Michael Garcia (As A Hope Singer) (2022-2023)
* Bond Samson - Keyboards
* Homer Flores - Musical Director, Piano, and 1st Keyboard
* Roy Mercado - Drums
* Bobby Taylo - Bass Guitar
* Ric Mercado - Acoustic Guitar and Electric Guitar
* Anna Inocencio - Vocalist 1
* Ida Inocencio Delos Reyes - Vocalist 2
* Rene Martinez - tenor
* Cecile Arrieta - vocalist 3

### Regular guest co-hosts

* Isabelle Daza (2020-2023)
* Matteo Guidicelli (2022-2023; relief host for Billy Crawford)
* Sue Ramirez (2022-2023)

### Former guest co-hosts

* Gelli de Belen (2020–2021)
* Valerie Concepcion (2020–2021)
* Kim Molina (2021)
* Claudine Barretto (2021)

### Former host

* Ariel Rivera (2020–2021)
* Mark Averilla (also known as Macoy Dubs Auntie Julie) (2020–2021)
* Querubin Gonzales (2021–2022)
* Nick Parker (2021–2022)
* Nikka Brillantes (2021–2022)
* K Brosas (2020–2022)}

### Former cast members

* Grace Cristobal (also known as "Amazing Grace") (2022; "Sagot Mo Sagot Ko" Segment Host)
* DJ Arra Pascual (2020–2021)