Getting to know Backroom 9; ‘Not Your Ordinary Boys and Girls’
This hot season, Backroom is out to make show business a little more interesting by introducing nine new artists who are out to make their own mark in the industry.
This hot season, Backroom is out to make show business a little more interesting by introducing nine new artists who are out to make their own mark in the industry.
When we first got our toes and tootsies wet in the wonderful world of Philippine show business, it didn’t take us long to realize that, like Alice or Alfie in Wonderland, we had inadvertently been squeezed into an occasionally bizarre, alternative and upside-down universe.
For a celebrity, there’s nothing quite as exciting as being on a float and seeing sea of fans wanting to catch a glimpse of them. That’s why the annual Parade of Stars that kicks off the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF)—now on its 38th year— is an event show biz neophytes aspire to be a part of, and a tradition for seasoned actors and actresses.
Multi-awarded filmmaker Marilou Diaz-Abaya passed away at 6:30 p.m. on Monday at the St. Luke’s Hospital in Taguig City, after a five-year battle with cancer, her son Marc said. She was 57.
Vin Abrenica, one of the 16 finalists of TV5’s “Artista Academy,” admitted that elder brother and Kapuso heartthrob Aljur initially discouraged him from entering show biz.
‘Comedy King’ Dolphy continues to unite the entire entertainment industry in the wake of his passing. Although the tribute on Thursday night was organized by his last home network TV5, stars from rival stations ABS-CBN and GMA 7 paid their respects as well.
Aiza Seguerra said she lost interest in school when she became the family breadwinner. She made this revelation at the first Child Summit held recently and organized by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB).
Whitney Houston’s daughter said Sunday she plans to follow her mother into show business, while the drug-troubled star’s sister-in-law admitted her untimely death could have been predicted.
The recently concluded entertainment season was particularly acrimonious and scandal-prone, as a number of stars were caught with their proverbial pants and knickers down. Worst of all were the shockeroos in which both of the contentious parties involved were popular luminaries, once madly in love with each other but now in foaming and rabid hate-hate mode, washing their dirty laundry in full view of the gossip-mongering public.
My, my, show business is truly abuzz these days. And we’ve found ourselves unwitting witnesses to it.
“Dear KC Concepcion: Been there. Done that. Love, Carmina Villaroel.”
Showbiz writer Jobert Sucaldito and two other journalists of the tabloid Bandera, a sister publication of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, have been charged with libel in a Quezon City court for allegedly maligning TV personality John Lapus in a column published early this year.
