This early, showbiz is abuzz with talks about a possible collaboration between Bossing Vic Sotto and the Unkabogable Vice Ganda for a Metro Manila Film Festival entry this year. If true, does that mean the former “Eat Bulaga” host will revert to his tried-and-tested comedy flicks, which were a festival staple for many years?
Vice, of course, is the main host of “It’s Showtime.” Seeing rival noontime show hosts in a movie — double the magnitude — is not only a welcome idea but also expected to make a killing at the box office.
Are Vic and Vice indeed teaming up for a still-untitled film intended especially for kids, and thereby reminiscent of the MMFF’s glorious past? Again, if so, are Vic’s MZet Productions and Viva Films on Vice Ganda’s side cashing in on this stupendous project?
Meanwhile, the MMFF has already released the deadlines: May 15 for participating film producers’ letters of intent; script submission on or before 5 p.m. on June 30; and the finished film on or before 5 p.m. on September 30.
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“StarStruck” alumnus Alvin Aragon has seemingly thrown in the towel with his atrocious anti-LGBTQIA+ stand.
The homophobe-lesbophobe, however, did not openly concede to Boy Abunda, on whose afternoon show on GMA he guested and where he fiercely took a jab at the gay community in general.
Of all people, Alvin “groveled” to fellow “StarStruck” alumnus Mark Herras — and how?
For starters, Mark and Alvin were batchmates in the artista search’s inaugural season (alongside Jennylyn Mercado). As contemporaries, both were privy to each other’s family backgrounds. Ergo, much of Mark’s private life was not kept under wraps — including how he was raised by his gay parents.
To this day, Mark remains immensely grateful to both his gay uncle and the latter’s partner for bringing him up as would any proud biological parents.
In an interview with PEP.ph, Mark did not hold back as he confessed to feeling terribly upset, if not enraged, by Alvin’s self-righteous perspective. Alvin had aired this during his guesting on “Fast Talk” with Boy Abunda — apparently oblivious to the fact that the host is a staunch supporter of the gay community himself.
“It was during that time when I messaged him,” Mark shared with PEP. “I told him it was based on your experience where you could have done something to make it right, but you chose to do nothing.”
Alvin claimed to have been sexually molested by a gay neighbor when he was about seven years old, back in their old residence in Pasay City. This became his basis for his statements.
Mark received no reply from Alvin, but the message he sent was marked “seen.”
Like the perpetually indebted Mark to his gay parents, gospel singer Jamie Rivera — in her separate guesting on Abunda’s show — regards her gay friends as celestial beings who helped her during her floundering years in the music industry.
Initially, the singer thanked Boy Abunda, her publicist, who willingly offered his services gratis et amore. So did her makeup artist, Bhoy Navarrete, as well as her former gay managers and career handlers.
Straight to Abunda’s face, Jamie said she honestly believes all of them are a godsend.
Conversely, for Mark, he adheres to the spiritual belief that, “Regardless of religion, God loves us.”
May Alvin’s uncanny non-reaction to Mark’s scathing message finally mean he has found his lost marbles.
