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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Angel Locsin

ANGEL LOCSIN

The most controversial artist in the Filipino showbiz-ness today! She has gained over millions of profit from all of the shows she had done. She was an angel to everyone. His angelic face makes everyone feel like floating in “CLOUD 9”.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Real Name: Angelica Colmenares
Screen Name: Angel Locsin
Nickname: gel
Birthday: April 23, 1985
Birthplace: Bulacan

FAVORITES.
Motto in Life: Just be yourself.
Hobbies: dancing, reading, cooking and learning new recipes
Sport/s: swimming and badminton
Movies: 51st dates, wedding singer
Style: casual
Hangout: house, mall
Likes: friendly, thoughtful, kind
Dislikes: dark places, rats
Book: Actually I am more interested with magazines,
Music: Classic, R&B, pop
Expression: “hindi naman”

Anne Curtis

ANNE CURTIS
She's one of the most renowned pretty young actresses in the Philippines. She has been the top model for UNO MAGAZINE. She has good fashion sense and carries her self very well. She is just so hot!

Birth Date: February 17, 1985
Birth Place: Yarrawonga, Australia
Birth Name: Anne Ojales Curtis-Smith
Height: 5'6"

Other Information :
Has dark brown eyes and hair.
Favorite food: lamb chops with vegetables.
Parents are Australian lawyer James Curtis Smith and Filipina Carmencita Ojales.
Has dual Filipino-Australian citizenship.
Endorses Jollibee, Petit Monde and Ginebra San Miguel.
She was 13 on her vacation in the Philippines spotted by a talent scout of a fastfood chain, Jollibee.
Has a Maltese dog named Buddy.
Eldest of three children - sister is 10 years younger, brother is 12 years younger.
Born and raised in Yarrawonga, Australia.
Fan of Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci.
Former girlfriend of Oyo Boy Sotto.
Former girlfriend of Richard Gutierrez.

Angelica Panganiban

Angelica Panganiban (born on November 4, 1986 in the Caloocan City, Philippines) is a television and film actress, commercial model and product endorser working in ABS-CBN. Angelica is now preparing for her newest teleserye in ABS-CBN entitled Iisa Pa Lamang with Gabby Concepcion and Claudine Barretto.

Angelica's parents separated when she was two years old. She has no memories of her father. In her childhood, Angelica had thought that her grandfather, Alfredo Panganiban, was her real father.

Young actress Angelica David Panganiban says she is the only daughter of Annabell Panganiban and a father she didn’t know by name. “Maybe I knew his name when I was a child but I’ve forgotten it now,” she says. She has no memories of her father either. “Only a picture,” she says. And she doesn’t miss him. “I never grew up with a father,” she adds. “Had I felt his presence then, I could have missed him today.”

In her childhood, Angelica had thought that her grandfather, Alfredo Panganiban, was her father, until her playmates set her aright. “I was playing in a playmate’s house and told the rest that my daddy was coming home soon with plenty of pasalubong (gifts).’ But they told me, ‘He’s not your daddy, he’s your lolo. You don’t have a daddy…’ I didn’t cry. It wasn’t an issue for me; I was too young then.”

The only time she wished her father was around, Angelica says, was two years ago, when she celebrated her debut. “He could have been my first dance,” she says wistfully. Her Lolo Alfredo graciously did the honor.

Amazingly, no one has yet come forward to claim paternity of this young actress who starred in such movies as “Antipolo Massacre,” her first film, “Separada” (where she won a Famas for Best Child Actress), and “Santa Santita.”All she knows about him, says Angelica, is that her parents had separated when she was two. He was crazy (baliw), her mother had told her.

It was no big deal, she recalls. In grade school, Angelica remembers having a group of friends called “barkadahang walang ama” (friends without fathers). “All my friends’ parents were separated. Their stories were worse than mine. One’s father was said to have been ran over by a train. Another said her mother chopped off her father’s head, and so on.”

Only recently did her mother started telling her the truth, but piecemeal. “My parents separated, he’s now settled in Guam and has another family.” That’s all she knows and that’s how far she’ll go answering any more queries about her family.

Angelica was born on November 4, 1986 in Caloocan City. Listed as her parents are Alfredo Panganiban, a taxi operator in Guam, and Melania Panganiban, a housewife. Angelica finished elementary school in 1999 at St. Vincent in Teacher’s Village, Quezon City, and her high school in 2003 at St. Vincent, West Avenue. The pretty lass was the Junior-Senior Prom Princess in 2002 and Miss Junior and Senior Prom in 2003.

Iya Villania Biography

Raelene Elaine Ebaler Villanía (born June 29, 1986 in Australia), better known as Iya Villania, is a Filipina-Australian actress, host, singer and model.Mostly credited for being one of Philippines television’s most visible and prominent personalities, she shares hosting roles for notable TV shows like ASAP ‘08, U Can Dance, Wowowee, Us Girls and as a VJ for MYX music channel.

Iya Villania

I . BIO

FULL NAME: Raelene Elaine Villania
SCREEN NAME: “Iya Villania”
NICK NAME: “Bubba” or “Len” to her family, “Rae” to her Highschool friends
BIRTHDATE: 29 June 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH: Australia
FAMILY: Dad is Ray, Mum is Ellen; Sisters: Rhoda and Sheila

NATIONALITY: Filipino
SCHOOLS ATTENDED:
Colegio San Agustin - 2nd to 4th Year High School
De La Salle University - AB Psychology (Sophomore)

II. More About Iya:

SHE’S A SPORTS BABE

The youngest of three sisters, she used to be a tomboyish girl, she loved playing “touch footy,” a less physically violent variation of the rough sport. “You just tag players instead of tackling them,” she explains. “But when unsupervised, we tend to tackle each other really hard.”

This is sort of CUTE:

Her name Iya is an anime character’s name. (Remember that Globe XTM Commercial?) Aside from her, she’d like to be Buttercup of The Powerpuff Girls. She’s cute and tough. Iya also loves Tigger and Cookie Monster.

Her CellPhone.

Unlike a lot of us Cell phone addicts,(ehem.) whom this ex-GJ used to send into a texting frenzy, Iya uses prepaid phone cards at an average of P300 a week- even two weeks or a month. “I don’t really use my cell phone that much. I don’t call people, they call me,” she jests.

Anyway, in case you want to know, she owns a Nokia 6600 and she changed the casing to pink one.

NoyPi!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Iya is a true blue Pinoy. Check this out: Filipino parents, Sydney upbringing, royal accent. Proud to be Pinoy she is-and flaunts it by trying to speak the brown man’s tongue. She can say, “nakakapagpabagabag” 5 times.

Thanks to the Karaoke

Influenced and inspired by his dad’s fondness for karaoke, at age seven she discovered her vocal chops from her My Way-singing dad. At 13, she has been doing front acts to Filipino big time singers and actors who would visit and perform in Australia every now and then.

Iya was only 13 when she was first spotted by talent manager Arnold Vegafria in a show co-produced by her mother. As Geneva Cruz’s opening act, she sang Donna Summer’s “Last Dance.” “He told me to get in touch with him if ever I decide to go to the Philippines and become a singer,” she remembers.

Hurray for everyone who loves karaoke!!! HURRAY!

“HELLER” - an expression spreading around like some contagious airborne virus these days, in the same way most new phrases take on strange lives of their own. It’s supposed to be another variation of “hello,” supposedly of the Australian persuasion.

Thanks to her Aussie twang. People are tracing its origins to our beloved Iya. When asked about how she feels about it, “I don’t really know,” (with that last word sounding like “neur”). “That’s just the way I say ‘hello.’ You know, I don’t even hear the ‘er.’ People come up to me and say ‘hel-ler.’ Well, I don’t like to think about it. I saw it coming. Anyway, I love that word.”

THE HOLY BIBLE

Her traditional Filipino upbringing in Sydney has turned her into a responsible young lass, a devout follower of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, in fact. “My strongest weapon is the Bible, which I had been taught to read as a child. We go to church on Saturdays and our Sabbath is from Friday to the sunset of Saturday. I have a strong relationship with God and I talk to Him always.”

I’m not a star!

Things weren’t as easy at first. She did a frightening amount of VTR tests, with not-so-encouraging results. She wasn’t getting hired, and it got to a point when she took the rejections personally, ‘What’s wrong with me?’

But thanks to the now defunct, GameChannel. Iya got her break being a Game Jock interacting with the players of the show. Few commercials followed and she was hired to play the role of ‘Sydney’ in GMA 7’s youth oriented show, Click.

Despite the attention and hellers, Iya doesn’t consider herself a star yet. “There’s so much competition, so many people better than me. I’m not the best. I’d like to think I’m still trying. Like, I’m still doing all those VTRs.”

About the accent.

Her accent isn’t something she’s conscious of. She said that, it’s the people around her who make her conscious. Iya speaks with an unapologetic Aussie accent and manages to make vowel endings sound like ‘er,’ or even ‘ewr.’ But she’s not about to drop any of that anytime soon. “My accent is part of me. Although I have been criticized for having a foreign accent, I’m not about to lose it. People just have to accept me for what I am.”

Singing Career

Due to numerous offerings and school loads, Villania’s singing career, her main reason for coming in the Philippines, had to take a backseat. In spite of this, she still was given the opportunity to demonstrate her talent on many occasions. In 2003, she front-acted for the American pop rock band Hanson. In 2005, she had a singing duet with Ogie Alcasid in his Valentine concert. Beside singing for most of her part in Footloose The Musical, she recorded “Almost Paradise” with Jay-R which became the carrier song for the musical’s album release. In 2006, in-line with her endorsement for Rose Online, she recorded the game’s carrier single “Good To Be Me” and performed it during the game’s official launching.

Riza Santos

21 year old Riza Santos is a Filipina - Canadian beauty queen that represented Canada in Miss Earth 2006 and recently featured in the October 2007 issue of FHM Philippines.

Riza Santos joined the Canadian military as a Medic, like her family Riza Santos is an achiever, aside from her military career and other vocations, she also studied BS Biology. Riza Santos joined the famed ABS-CBN’s reality show PBB - Pinoy Big Brother house, won the 2nd place and sky rocketed her into the realm of Philippines showbiz.

Riza Santos and Jon in PBB - Pinoy Big Brother playing “Blind Soccer”.

A continuation of their weekly anime task.

Marian Rivera

Name: Marian Rivera
Nickname: Yan-yan
Real Name: Marian Rivera Gracia
Birthday: August 12
Birth Place: Madrid, Spain

Marian’s hit list:
1. Her favorite funny movie is Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle!
2. She named her two cars “Cariño” and “Amigo.”
3. She won dance competitions in school.
4. She used to have a pet Shi Tzu, but she had to give it away because she is allergic to dogs.
5. Her comfort food is anything chocolate.

Describe yourself in three words. “Makulit, kalog, kaibigan.”

Marian Gracia Rivera, more popularly known as Marian Rivera (born August 12, 1984 in Madrid, Spain) is an Filipina actress and commercial model. She rose to fame for her title role in the Philippine remake of MariMar.

Rivera's father is a Spaniard named Francisco Javier Gracia while her mother is a Filipina named Amalia Rivera. Her parents separated when she was 2 years of age. While her parents stayed in Spain where her mother worked as an OFW, and Marian was sent to live with her grandmother in Bacoor, Cavite, Philippines.

Rivera began her career as a ramp and commercial model, which landed her with an appearance on TV advertisements for Skin White Lotion and Sky Flakes crackers. Production company TAPE Inc. then signed her to cast in a series of afternoon soap operas for GMA Network: Kung Mamahalin Mo Lang Ako, Agawin Mo Man Ang Lahat (where she was named as the "Best New Female Personality" at the 2006 PMPC Star Awards and Pinakamamahal. Oyo Boy Sotto was her leading man in these soaps. GMA Network then cast her into mother roles for the afternoon Philippine-Malaysian drama Muli and the primetime telefantasya Super Twins.

After which TAPE Inc., signed and casted her in a series of 3 afternoon soaps for the GMA Network: Kung Mamahalin Mo Lang Ako, Agawin Mo Man Ang Lahat and Pinakamamahal. Oyo Boy Sotto was her leading man in these three aforementioned soaps. GMA Network then casted her into mother roles for the afternoon Philippine-Malaysian drama Muli and the primetime telefantasya Super Twins. But her biggest break came when she won the title role of Marimar, the remake of the Mexican telenovela which starred Thalia. She auditioned and bested all other young stars who were vying for the highly-coveted role. Marimar is currently and consistently the highest rating show on Philippine primetime TV according to AGB Nielsen. Her team-up with one of GMA Network's most bankable young actors, Dingdong Dantes (playing Sergio Santibanez in Marimar), proved to be a huge success. GMA Network Executives dubbed her as "The Next Big Star." She is now tagged as Philippine's Primetime Princess after her successful debut starrer.