Noel Kampton excited to celebrate first Father's Day with family
Kampton and his wife welcomed their baby last December and this will be the first time that they will celebrate the event as a family.
"Excited kasi ito 'yung first baby ko and mag-celebrate ng first Father's Day ko kaya looking forward ako," Kampton told GMA News Online last June 6 on the sidelines of the Final Four match between Colegio de San Juan de Letran and De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde.
Kampton has also been on a roll lately as it was announced that he joined the Criss Cross King Crunchers in the Spikers' Turf and the PSNKK Club in Thailand.
"On to the next," he wrote in his Facebook post on Saturday.
—JKC, GMA Integrated News
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