SPORTING a new image as reality TV’s new man of action on ABC’s S.O.S. (Stories of Survival), it’s hard to imagine that tough newsman Martin Andanar was once a typical pick-on kid in his teens.

“I wasn’t a bully. That’s why I mixed with the tough guys, so people would think I was tough,” he recalls. “In truth, I was bullied by my brother when we were kids.”