Marky Cielo dies at 20

MARKY CIELO, the StarStruck Ultimate Sole Survivor Batch 3 found dead in his died in his sleep Sunday morning.
According to a statement from the TV network, Cielo’s mother, Mildred, went into her son’s room in their house in Antipolo City to wake him up at around 10 a.m.
When Cielo (Mark Angelo Cadaweng Cielo in real life) did not respond, Mildred rushed him to the nearby Antipolo Doctor’s Hospital where the actor was declared dead on arrival, the statement added.
At press time, the cause of Cielo’s death remains unknown as his family is still waiting for his medical records to be released. Some are speculating that the cause of death is an acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis [the cause of death of the late actor Rico Yan].

Cielo grew up in Butuan City, and then moved to Mountain Province in 2001. He spoke the Kankanaey, Ilocano, Tagalog and Bisaya languages (precisely Butuanon and Cebuano) fluently. According to his life story in Magpakailanman, Marky's parents separated when he and his sister were still young and their mother took care of them on her own. He met his father again after many years.

After winning StarStruck, Cielo entered show business. His first show was Fantastikids which stars Isabella de Leon and B.J. "Tolits" Forbes and then Encantadia: Pag-ibig Hanggang Wakas. His two primetime shows in which his two characters were killed off were Bakekang and Asian Treasures. The network chose Cielo to be a protagonist in the Philippine remake of Uchuu Keiji Shaider as Alexis del Mundo or Shaider but Dennis Trillo and StarStruck Ultimate Hunk Aljur Abrenica were added so the title Shaider was changed to Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan, a spin-off sequel to Metal Heroes in which he portrayed Alexis Lorenzo or Zaido Green. He considered his show Zaido as his biggest break. He recently joined the casts of Sine Novela: Kaputol ng Isang Awit which stars Glaiza de Castro, Lovi Poe and Jolo Revilla. He was seen in the commercial of a no-smoking campaign with Department of Health secretary Francisco Duque III and he was a spokesperson. He joined Codename: Asero then LaLola. He was last seen in LaLola, in which he portrayed the character "Billy