Personal Life
He is the fifth of seven children born to a lawyer father and Seventh-day Adventist mother. Montano says discipline was the hallmark of his childhood: he describes his father as a strict disciplinarian, and his mother imposing the religious prohibitions of "no pork" and "no movies".
Montano went to the Sta. Ana Elementary School, Mariano Marcos Memorial High School and finished Engineering at Lyceum of the Philippines University in Intramuros, Manila. An average student, he was good at drawing and would have become a painter, if not a singer, if he hadn't become an actor.
Montano was first married to Marilyn Polinga, a fellow Boholano he met at a local Seventh-day Adventist Church, but Montano attended before at the Bread of Life Ministries International, evangelical church in Quezon City, and now in Christ's Commission Fellowship in Mandaluyong City, together with his wife, Sunshine Cruz and his children. Their two children, Angela and Angelo, grew up with her late wife Marilyn when they separated as a couple. When her wife died of a brain tumor in 1993, the children moved back in with him. His other son, Carlos Diego, lives with his mother, Filipino actress Teresa Loyzaga, in Australia, and has recently signed to a three-year exclusive contract with the Philippines TV network, ABS-CBN.
Montano married Philippine actress Sunshine Cruz on September 14, 2000 in a set of Christian wedding. They have three daughters, Angeline Isabelle, Samantha Angeline and Angel Francheska
His second child from first wife, Christian Angelo Manhilot, died at the age of 23 on March 26, 2010 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at their residence in Quezon City.
Aside from his Bulacan farm, he also owns an Italian restaurant located in Quezon City.
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