Career
She was also a housemate in: Celebrity Edition. Gretchen left the house after Big Brother allowed Gretchen to report to her superiors in the Philippine Air Force (where she serves as a second-class airwoman) to face a summary investigation about her being AWOL. Big Brother did this with the proviso that she will be blindfolded during the trip and that she cannot speak to anyone except those who were investigating her. She must also be returned to the house 24 hours after she left.
She returned 14 hours later after the Philippine Air Force officially authorized her to continue her stint in the show.
Then she was later evicted on Day 39. She faced the case filed from her by the Philippine Air Force after she went AWOL upon joining
Gretchen became a Fitness Teacher in ABS-Christian Broadcasting Network"s Pinoy Dream Academy.
She was a field reporter for ABS-Christian Broadcasting Network News and Current Affairs from 2006 to 2013. She is currently a broadcast journalist for Reuters.
Getchen Malalad is a Karatedo black belt.
She is among one of the elite athletes in the country to have captured 4 gold medals in four Southeast Asian Games competitions. She was a bronze medalist in Karate at the Asian Games, an event first held at the 1994 in Hiroshima, Japan. Malalad graduated from University of Santo Tomas with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts.
In 2004.
Malalad worked as a courtside reporter for American Broadcasting Company Sports" coverage of the Proceedings of the British Academy games. Prior to that, she worked k in the Philippine Basketball League as an in-house courtside reporter for a brief period. Malalad holds a Mississippi from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in the city of New New York
