Temptation of Wife (2012 TV series)

Marian Rivera portrays Angeline Santos / Chantal Gonzales.

Dennis Trillo portrays Marcel Salcedo.

Glaiza de Castro portrays Heidi Fernandez.

Rafael Rosell portrays Nigel Armada.

Cherie Gil portrays Stella Salcedo.

Michelle Madrigal portrays Chantal Armada.

• Marian Rivera as Angeline Santos-Salcedo / Chantal Gonzales

The daughter of Abner and Minda Santos and wife of Marcel Salcedo. Angeline gave up everything for love, including her studies and the dream of giving her family a more comfortable life.[1]

• Dennis Trillo as Marcel Salcedo

A man who struggles to fulfill his responsibility as the heir to the Salcedo's empire and to keep up to his father's expectations. As a spouse, Marcel tries, as much as possible, to be a good husband to Angeline Santos.[2]

• Glaiza de Castro as Heidi Fernandez

Angeline Santos' cousin and best friend. She works as a beauty consultant and manager at Bella France, a beauty company. Heidi secretly detests Angeline because she feels that fate has always favored the latter over her and has given her the things and people that she had always wanted.

• Rafael Rosell as Nigel Armada

Orphaned at a young age, Nigel found a new family with Yolanda Armada, who raised him as her own. He eventually becomes a successful architect. His serene life changes when Angeline Santos enters his life and fall in love with her.[3]

• Rez Cortez as Abner Santos

The head of the Santos family. He is tough-looking but a soft-hearted man. His family is the most important thing in his life and will do anything to protect them.

• Rio Locsin as Minda Santos

The loving and caring mother of Angeline Santos. A practical home maker who also serves as Angeline's inspiration and source of strength.

• Antonio Aquitania as Leo Santos

Brother of Angeline Santos. Despite being a college dropout, Leo struggles to prove his worth as the second man of the family. He is head-over-heels in love with Heidi Fernandez. However, she only regards him as a mess.

• Raymond Bagatsing as Romeo Salcedo

The patriarch of the Salcedo clan. He is considered as one of the most respected and well known businessmen in the real estate business. Because of this, he also expects his son, Marcel Salcedo to follow his lead. However, Marcel always turned out to be his biggest disappointment. Romeo is a very principled man, but unknowingly, he harbors a secret past which he has a relationship with Yolanda Armada before he marries Stella. Towards the end of the series, he and Stella finally apologizes to Angeline after Marcel's death and later he rekindles his friendship with Yolanda.

• Cherie Gil as Stella Salcedo

The aristocratic spouse of Romeo Salcedo and the ruthless mother-in-law of Angeline Santos. Ever since, she doesn’t like her daughter-in-law because she thinks Angeline doesn’t belong to their class and treats her like a servant. She later gains a rivalry towards Yolanda Armada which is her husband's former girlfriend. At the end of the series, she and Romeo apologize to Angeline after Marcel's death.[4]

• Bettina Carlos as Madel Salcedo

A mentally challenged woman known as Romeo Salcedo's younger sister. She has a crush on Leo, Angeline's brother.[5][6]

• Ayen Munji-Laurel as Yolanda Armada

Nigel and Chantal Armada’s mother. She is a successful and vicious woman who can stand up to anyone. But behind her image and success lies a dark past, which however, impact her present disposition in a big way, leaving lasting repercussions. She is also the former girlfriend of Romeo Salcedo who had a relationship in the past before Romeo marries Stella which causes her to break her heart and wants to have revenge against them. At the end of the series, she was reunited with Romeo who wanted to rekindled their friendship and later becomes the mother in-law to Angeline who is now married to Nigel.[7]

• Michelle Madrigal as Chantal Armada

Yolanda Armada's younger daughter who is obsessively in love with her adopted older brother, Nigel. Her obsession causes her downfall for she is willing to risk everything, even her own life, for him. Heidi and Chantal makes Angeline's life as miserable as hell.

• JC Tiuseco as Bernard - best friend of Marcel.
• Bubbles Paraiso as Leslie - Heidi's best friend.
• Robert Seña as Robert Sarmiento
• Mel Martinez as Pat - the fashion designer friend of Angeline.

• Patricia Ysmael as Scarlet - a stranger who helped Angeline.
• Sheena Halili as young Yolanda
• Jay Aquitania as young Romeo
• Mel Kimura as Josefina Fernandez

The cast and characters were announced on September 11, 2012 during the series' story conference, with the main cast being, Marian Rivera, Dennis Trillo, Alessandra De Rossi and Rafael Rosell. The network personally chose Rivera and Trillo to their respective roles. As for her preparation, Rivera stated that "Whenever I have a new soap, I make sure to ask some tips about the role. Then I talk to my director how he wants me to approach my role. I'd like to have an idea of the character that I am going to portray and how I would give life to it onscreen," she said. She further stated that she wants every role she does to be different from the previous one in terms of how she going to approach it. "I was challenged to alter the concept of being a "damsel in distress" in my role as Angeline," she added.[21] On the other hand, Trillo described his character as a "not-so-typical-leading-man" role.[22]

De Rossi[23] was originally assigned by the network to play Heidi Fernandez.[24] However, the role was eventually given to Glaiza de Castro.

The series served as Rosell's first major project[25] for the network after he signed an exclusive contract with the network.[26][27] Zapata, made the entire cast watch the original series before shooting began to familiarized their characters.[28]

The series’ plug, teasers and opening title sequence were filmed on September 11, 2012 in a studio at GMA Network Center in Quezon City. The said teaser is actually an omnibus plug for the network's final set of primetime offerings for 2012.[29] Filming for the series began on October 9, 2012. Many of the series’ scenes were shot on location in Quezon City.[30]

According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Temptation of Wife earned a 23.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 27.9% rating.[31] The series had its highest rating with a 41.3% rating.[32]

Vincent Anthon Garcia of gulfnews.com said that "Marian Rivera has proved why she is truly the Queen of Primetime TV. Her current series, Temptation of Wife, has zoomed to the top of the ratings".[33] Mario Bautista of Journal praised the show's main villain, Glaiza de Castro, said that "One reason why Temptation of Wife clicks with viewers is the fact that de Castro is so effective as the villainous Heidi. We know she didn't want to play kontrabida (villainess) again after she did lead roles in Grazilda and Biritera. But Glaiza made the right decision in accepting the Heidi role as it's really so "mark" and she can show her versatility as an actress who can do both lead and villain roles."[34]