section_path: Personal life
section_name: Personal life
paragraph_text: Personal life
  
  Duterte is known for being an avid fan of large-displacement cruiser motorcycles, but detests luxury cars. He owns a Harley-Davidson Street and a Can-Am Spyder. He was once a habitual smoker, but he eventually quit after a doctor's suggestion due to health concerns. Duterte is an avid reader of Robert Ludlum and Sidney Sheldon novels. Duterte is also known for his straightforward and vocal attitude in public, especially in interviews, showing no hesitation in profusely using profanity live on-screen on numerous occasions despite formal requests by media groups and schools beforehand to abstain.
  
  Duterte has his own local show in Davao City called Gikan sa Masa, para sa Masa ("From the Masses, For the Masses"), which formerly aired as a blocktimer on ABS-CBN Davao, and currently broadcast on SMNI News Channel since 2023. He is also a member of Lex Talionis Fraternitas, a fraternity based in the San Beda College of Law and the Ateneo de Davao University.
  
  Aside from his native Cebuano, Duterte is also fluent in Filipino and English.
  
  While criticizing political opponent Antonio Trillanes in a 2019 speech, Duterte claimed that he was once gay but had "cured himself" before meeting his wife Elizabeth Zimmerman.
  
  Since being the mayor of Davao City, Duterte has held an annual tradition of visiting children with cancer in the city and giving them Christmas gifts.