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36 filipino globe celebrity November 2006 Is she Robin’s new Angel? We’ll soon find out DANNY VIBAS in Manila After Regine Velasquez, expect Robin Padilla to be tightly and persistently linked next to Angel Locsin (left) – yes, the younger Locsin, not to the not-so-young but always beauteous Aquino. Robin is teamed up next over at GMA 7 with the star of Darna and Majica who is very much the girlfriend of Oyo Boy Sotto. Asian Treasures will take Robin and Angel to various parts of Asia for their filming. The publicity yarn from GMA 7 brags that Cambodia, China, India, Thailand, and, of course, the Philippines will be among the setting of the network’s newest fantasy adventure series. In the Philippines, the shooting venues include Corregidor, Bataan and Anilao in Mabini, Batangas. Robin is very much aware that his new leading lady is the girlfriend of a Sotto boy whose clan he respects. Pinoy showbiz’s Bad Boy is known for easily falling for his leading ladies and pursuing them with a passion in most cases. He did it to Regine Velasquez while they were filming and promoting their second and latest movie together Till I Met You, coproduced by GMA Films and Viva Films. And for some reason, as well as for the first time in her 20- year-old showbiz career, Regine made a big show of kissing passionately with her leading man even in public, such as during the second night of her recent concert at the Big Dome. ‘The first time I saw Robin, I froze – and I was in the middle of retouching my make-up’ Here’s why Bea has a soft spot for the tough guy Next to his macho machine, Robin Padilla exudes the kind of toughness girls swoon over and many women fall for. DANNY VIVAS in Manila Stunning Bea Alonzo may be delicately lovely but she likes bad-boy-looking men, not refined, neat dudes, thank you. Her biggest showbiz crush is not her on-cam sweetheart John Lloyd Cruz, but Robin Padilla. The young actress turned 19 last October 17. Star Magic of ABS-CBN 2, her career handler, hosted a dinner for her with the press recently, and it was during the after-dinner banter with Star Magic PR Rykka Dylim and other network staffers that we learned about the young actress’ kind of guy. “The first time I saw Robin, I froze – and I was in the middle of retouching my make-up in one of dressing rooms (of ABS-CBN). “I must have stared at him for five full minutes before I realized that I had to finish what I was doing since my cue to face the camera would come any moment,” recalled Bea. With an impish, little girl smile (and she’s not petite at all due, perhaps, to her British blood from her hardly known dad), she admitted that up to know, she still gets reduced to nerves every time she sees Robin in person. And up to now, she still feels a little bad that ABS-CBN 2’s plan to have her paired up with Robin “ That boy should stop getting into trouble and spend more time instead taking care of his showbiz career BEA ALONZO On John Wayne Sace never got off the ground. That night at Cheapsteaks restaurant at ABS-CBN’s The Loop mall, she showed her concern for another actor with a bad boy image: John Wayne Sace, who recently figured in a brawl with a neighbor who had him arrested by the police. “That boy should stop getting into trouble and spend more time instead taking care of his showbiz career,” she said. Realizing what she has just said, she quickly clarified: “Oh, God, why do I think of him still as a boy when he’s, I think, just a year younger than I am.” Bea has been saying she has no boyfriend, but we have it on good authority that there’s a brownskinned, unneat-looking young guy whose name is Mark and lives in a condo in the Ortigas area in Pasig where his family lives. He is known as Bea’s boyfriend. Bea, who admits that she now lives in a condo with only some maids as housemates, does not stay in the same building, though. Meanwhile, Bea insists she and John Lloyd are just very good friends who enjoy ribbing each other when they are together. They get that chance to do a bit of horseplay on the set of their new ABS-CBN soap opera Maging Sino Ka Man.
filipino globe celebrity November 2006 37 Singing stars Jessa Zaragoza and Dingdong Avanzado are a new kind of sensations in the US. “I am the phenomenal housemaid,” Jessa quips, “ironing clothes, washing dishes, name it.” “And I’m getting to be an expert at what I do around the house, like taking out the garbage” Dingdong chimes in. The couple immigrated to the US a few years ago, leaving behind the bright lights of the Philippine music scene. They have a four-bedroom, two-storey house in Vallejo, Califrornia, where Dingdong works on weekdays as marketing manager of a mortgage company owned by an uncle. Jessa has been busy lately learning how to drive. Dindong has just bought her a brand-new Mercedes-Benz.. They still get to do shows either together or separately on most weekends. There are, after all, 2.4 million Pinoys in the US eager to watch their kababayan perform. Jessa flew to Hawaii a few weeks after the October 15 earthquake that left several islands there without electricity for a few days. “I was supposed to do the show with Rica (Peralejo) but she got stranded on an island that had no power for several days due to the earthquake, so I ended up doing the show all by myself,” Jessa tells Filipino Globe. The couple are back in the Philippines for a visit and to promote their duet album, which they recorded a few months before they migrated to the US. On most weekdays, Jessa is a housewife who had to learn how to cook. She wakes up early and makes a big production out of her cooking. “You’d think she’s shooting a commercial for some kitchen product,” Dingdong says, teasing his wife. Like a typical household in the US, they have no maid, not even a yaya for their daughter who misses having a pet dog in the house. Dingdong and Jessa obtained special visas that classify them as “extraordinary persons” due to their singing talents. It’s the same type of visa granted to singer April Boy Regino who, according to Dingdong, lives in Carlson City. The couple had to hire an immigration lawyer to facilitate the processing of their application, backed by voluminous documents. Their greencards allow them to be away from the US for a maximum of four months in a row in a year. “So, if, for instance, Jessa gets offered a TV soap here and she would be taping for only four months, that could be arranged,” Dingdong says. Dingdong says settling in the US is a humbling experience even as the decision to move his family there was a well-thought-out one. One humbling experience he had was getting rejected for a credit She cooks, he takes out the trash Dingdong and Jessa miss the star treatment, but they’re doing just fine in the States, writes Danny Vibas “ You’d think she’s shooting a commercial for some kitchen product DINGDONG On Jessa’s new passion card. “In the Philippines, agents and companies were running after me to offer me all kinds of credit cards,” he says. In the Philippines, of course, he was a well-loved pop singer for almost 15 years. He even became a councilor in Quezon City. Cleaning the house, mowing the lawn, taking out the garbage, going out to the laundry shop, and lining up for anything and everything are things Dingdong regularly does in the US. “Oh, once in a while some really sweet kababayan would recognize me and point me to a side door so I can be attended to without waiting for my turn in a long line of people,” Dingdong says. While he and Jessa miss the star treatment in the Philippines, they find life in the US well worth it. In fact, they want their next child to be Made in the USA. Ai Ai comes clean about children’s fathers DANNY VIBAS in Manila There must be something about turning 42 that moves comedienne Ai Ai de las Alas (right) into being more open about some truths in her life. For instance, she now openly admits that her three kids do not have only one father in the person of singer Miguel Vera who is now based in the US. Her only son, the eldest, has stage actor Rey Malte Cruz as father. However, the boy, who will be college age next year, seems to have always known that his father is not Miguel with whom her mother had an invalid marriage for years – since Miguel was already married (to a non-showbiz girl) when he deceived Ai Ai into matrimony more than a decade ago. Actually, Ai Ai did not keep it a secret to some press guys that one of her kids is not Miguel’s. That is, to press guys who happened to ask. But then she would not say which one of her three children was not fathered by Miguel and who the kids dad is. And after admitting her indiscretions, she would beg the scribes not to write about it to spare her children from embarrassment. To return her honesty, no showbiz reporter ever wrote that her three children had two different fathers. Ai Ai recently told some scribes that her son has met his halfsiblings. And since the boy is about to go to college, she has warned him not to get anyone pregnant. And that if he could not suppress his urge to bed some girl, he had better know how to use rubbers. Ai Ai is suddenly talking about her children and their father perhaps to avoid talking about her own flimsy and whimsical lovelife. And she has none these days.
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