Tandem in trouble

The role of talent managers is to develop stars by mapping out their career paths. But what do you do when the so-called “overseer” of your showbiz career begins to mismanage it?

This is the question that a popular love team is trying to answer at the moment. The onscreen couple, Grateful Babies (GB), was supposed to renew its contract as the brand endorser of a popular product, but its two managers thumbed down the renewal, saying that their “vision for GB’s career has already changed.”

GB was told that it would sign up with another brand, but, sadly, the deal didn’t push through.

Poor GB secretly contacted the brand’s liaison to say that it never wanted to give up the endorsement deal. After all, not renewing the contract meant losing millions of pesos in talent fees. Is it already too late for GB?

TOP OF THE TABLOIDS

This week’s top showbiz news in the Inquirer tabloid Bandera (and why we are moved, if we are moved):

•. Makalipas ang 22 taon, Sarah Balabagan umamin na: Ang ama po ng panganay ko ay si Arnold Clavio! (Fact is stranger than fiction, indeed.)

Jessy Mendiola

•.. Luis Manzano umaming gusto nang hiwalayan noon si Jessy Mendiola: Lahat naman tayo may matitinding away … (Love prevails.)

Alden Richards

•. Alden Richards absent muna sa “Eat Bulaga”; nagpa-swab test uli para sa taping ng bagong miniseries ng GMA; may bagong adbokasiya, finalist bilang Sexiest Man! (Part of his reinvention process.)

Erich Gonzales

•. “Siguradong magiging bilyonaryo sina Erich Gonzales at Enchong Dee ‘pag sila ang nagkatuluyan …” (Given the current business climate, that’s a brave prediction.)

•. Direktor ng “Darna” nag-react sa statement ng ABS-CBN sa pagkansela sa shooting ng nasabing pelikula; shooting ng “Quezon” inaayos na. (Perhaps this Pinoy superheroine isn’t meant to fly, after all.)

•. Pagkanta ni Ellen Adarna inokray ng basher: Parang lasheng ang peg! (Her reputation as a party girl precedes her.)

Gerald Anderson

•. Gerald Anderson, hands-on sa kanyang pinapatayong resort sa Zambales. (You can’t rely on acting these days.)

•. Clint Bondad, transwoman billionaire Anne Jakrajutatip on Thai TV to reveal “shocking secret.” (That’s par for the course in Clint’s world these days …)

•. Judy Ann Santos in GMA’s Telesine Presents … (No surprise there. She has kids to raise, after all …)

•. Paolo Contis, may natutunan sa vlogger na tumunganga lang at nagkaroon ng milyong views! (How insightful …)

•. Carmina Villaroel, mamimigay ng mga tablet sa 10 maswerteng estudyante … (Every good deed counts.)

•.. Pauleen Luna tuloy na ang demanda sa basher na nanlait sa anak na si Tali … (Beware the wrath of an angry mother.)

•. Talk shows nina Martin Nievera at Edu Manzano dadalhin na din online … (That’s where the action is these days.)

•. “Underage” nina Ruffa Gutierrez may remake? (A new generation comes of age.)