Alfonso Tomas "Atom" Pagaduan Araullo is a Filipino broadcast journalist and television presenter.
During his tenure on ABS-CBN from 2005 to 2017, he became a reporter for ABS-CBN News programs such as TV Patrol, Bandila and ANC until 2016, where he resigned to explore opportunities and pursue other interests. He hosted Red Alert (as well as the radio show of the same name on DZMM), RealiTV and Hiwaga, and was one of the hosts of Umagang Kay Ganda and Breakfast.
In September 2017, he left ABS-CBN and moved back to GMA Network - the network where he originally come from where he hosted 5 and Up from 1992 to 2003, and as the segment anchor for ATOMic Sports on 24 Oras. Currently, he is the host of GMA's documentary programs The Atom Araullo Specials and I-Witness, and one of the co-anchors of GTV's newscast State of the Nation alongside Maki Pulido since 2021, replacing Jessica Soho.
Trivia[]
- Since 2021 and 2022, Atom Araullo is rumored by netizens to be a girlfriend of Zen Hernandez when Pinky Webb, who previously worked with ABS-CBN until 2015, shared a photo of the three of them in Instagram after seemingly coming across him and Hernandez in Balesin, and when he posted a photo of them together on his Instagram account.
- In 2013, during the 6th year anniversary special of Umagang Kay Ganda, he is seen performing a ballroom dance with Hernandez.
