Lucy Torres-Gomez

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Lucy Marie Martinez Torres-Gomez (née Torres; December 11, 1974), is a Filipina actress and politician currently serving as the mayor of Ormoc since 2022. She previously served as the Representative for Leyte's 4th district from June 2010 to March 2013 and from June 2013 to June 2022.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She is married to fellow actor turned politician Richard Gomez, who currently serves as the representative for Leyte's 4th district.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Early life and media career

Torres-Gomez was born on December 11, 1974, in Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines to Manuel "Manoling" Torres Jr. and Julie Martinez, the second of four children. She has an older sister and two younger brothers.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For primary and secondary school, she attended the Benedictine founded Saint Peter's College in Ormoc.<ref name=":3">Template:Cite news</ref> Torres-Gomez later attended the University of the Philippines Cebu (then a college of the University of the Philippines Visayas), from which she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business management.<ref name=":2" />

In 1993, Torres-Gomez shot a TV commercial for Lux Shampoo at Lake Caliraya, Laguna, where she met her future husband, Richard Gomez. Five years later in 1998, the two starred in the ABS-CBN television sitcom Richard Loves Lucy, and married that same year.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Torres-Gomez has also hosted the TV5 reality dance competition show Shall We Dance? and the Q lifestyle show The Sweet Life, and endorses Philippine brands bench/, and Kashieca.<ref name=":1" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Political career

Torres-Gomez was elected the Representative for Leyte's 4th legislative district as substitute candidate for her husband Richard Gomez on May 10, 2010. Gomez was disqualified by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) due to his lack of one year residency in the district, a requirement of eligibility for office.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On March 19, 2013, the Supreme Court, ruled on a protest filed by fellow congressional candidate Eufrocino Codilla Jr., ousting Torres-Gomez from office. The Courts said that she "did not validly substitute" her husband.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Her ousting did not affect her re-election bid, and she regained her seat in May of that same year, beating incumbent Ormoc Mayor Eric Codilla.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In May 2016, Torres-Gomez was again re-elected as representative, defeating Violeta Codilla.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

As congresswoman, Torres-Gomez has principally authored over 100 bills and co-authored 35. She is the chairperson of the House Committee on Disaster Resilience, and the vice chairperson of committees on Tourism, and Women and Gender Equality, and the special committee on Creative Industry and Performing Arts.<ref name=":0" /> She voted against the Reproductive Health Bill in December 2012, explaining that the refusal of Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, one of the bill's authors, to include a definition of when human life begins was the "core of my objection to the bill".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Cepeda">Template:Cite news</ref> Although she is a Marian devotee, Torres-Gomez voted in favor of a bill reimposing the death penalty in March 2017, reasoning that it was only limited to those who engaged in the illegal drug trade.<ref name="Cepeda"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Torres-Gomez, together with husband Richard Gomez, was a member of the then-ruling Liberal Party during her early political career, but left in June 2016 to join the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP–Laban) shortly after Rodrigo Duterte won the presidential election.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2020, Torres-Gomez expressed her support for the controversial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, stating that fear of the abuse of law is not a valid reason to reject needed legislation.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The bill was signed into law as Republic Act No. 11479 on July 3, 2020.<ref>Republic Act No. 11479, 2020.</ref> The law's constitutionality was challenged in the Supreme Court by multiple groups and were later declared unconstitutional some parts of thaw law.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Controversies

Torres-Gomez and her husband, representative Richard Gomez of Leyte's 4th district, have been alleged by Albuera, Leyte mayoral candidate Kerwin Espinosa to be connected to an assassination attempt on his life on April 10, 2025.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="ABS-CBNBonifacio">Template:Cite news</ref> In his claim, Espinosa stated that Ormoc police chief Reydante Ariza, a suspect in the incident, would have only answered to the Gomez couple, though he refrained from accusing them outright of instructing Ariza to target him.<ref name="ABS-CBNBonifacio"/> Gomez has denounced Espinosa's statement, claiming that the assassination attempt on Espinosa was "scripted",<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> while Torres-Gomez would later file both a disqualification case and a criminal case against Espinosa for challenging her husband to a gun duel, which she deemed a threat against his life.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal life

Torres-Gomez married actor and Leyte representative Richard Gomez on April 28, 1998 at the Saints Peter and Paul Parish Church in Ormoc, Leyte.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They currently reside in Ormoc, and have one daughter, Juliana Marie Beatriz (b. 2000),<ref name=":1" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> who graduated cum laude from the UP National College of Public Administration and Governance.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Torres-Gomez is Roman Catholic.<ref name=":3" /> She speaks Cebuano, English, and Tagalog.

In 2018, Torres-Gomez was named Most Stylish Woman by Philippine Tatler.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Electoral history

Electoral history of Lucy Torres-Gomez
Year Office Party Votes received Result
Total % Template:Abbr. Swing
2010 Representative (Leyte–4th) rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color;" | Liberal 101,250 56.79% 1st Template:N/a Template:Won
2013 106,291 53.29% 1st -3.50 Template:Won
2016 137,601 62.50% 1st +9.21 Template:Won
2019 rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;" | PDP–Laban 178,919 77.77% 1st +15.27 Template:Won
2022 Mayor of Ormoc 73,866 62.28% 1st Template:N/a Template:Won
2025 style="background:Template:Party color;" | PFP 89,123 65.00% 1st +2.72 Template:Won

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role
2011 Ang Panday 2 Ina Engkantada

Television

Year Title Role
1998–2001 Richard Loves Lucy Lucy
2003–2004 All About You Host
2004–2007 Bahay Mo Ba 'To? Lucinda
2004–2005 Forever in My Heart Herself
2005–2010 Shall We Dance? Host
2007–2011 The Sweet Life
2007 Mga Mata ni Anghelita Birheng Maria
2010–2011 P.O.5 Host
2010–2013 Talentadong Pinoy Judge
2013 Showbiz Police: Intriga Under Arrest Host
2014 Celebrity Dance Battle

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