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Ellen Adarna expressed her shock and amusement when she heard the answer of her son with John Lloyd Cruz to the question, “What’s your papa’s name?” In an Instagram story on Monday, Ellen asked her toddler Elias Modesto: “What’s your papa’s name?” “Piolo,” the two-year-old quickly replied. “Your papa’s name is not Piolo uy. Your papa is not Piolo,” Ellen repeatedly tried to correct her son, before asking again, “What’s your papa’s name?” “Piolo,” Elias responded again much to the laughter of Ellen. The Cebuana actress then tagged in her post actor Piolo Pascual — who is fondly called in…

Pia Wurtzbach felt the need to defend herself after some netizens claimed she wasn’t deserving of the “Woman of the Year” award from a Dubai-based magazine. On Monday, the former Miss Universe posted about how grateful she was to be chosen by Xpedition magazine as one of the 15 honorees at this year’s Xpedition Annual Gala Awards. While Pia’s friends and supporters flooded the comment section under the post with congratulatory messages, some bashers didn’t escape her attention. She said she normally ignores negative comments but still feels hurt whenever she is told that she hasn’t done anything substantial to…

A Philippine-made Christmas tree tower, which was built using canned sardines for charity, has set the new Guinness record title for world’s “tallest can structure.” Mega Global Corporation recently broke the Guinness record by piling up a total of 70,638 red and green Mega Sardines cans to form a 5.905 meters (19 feet and 4.5 inches) high Christmas tree in Valenzuela City. According to Guinness in an announcement last December 2, the tower was built to commemorate National Sardines Day in the Philippines last November 24. The canned sardines were then donated to charitable organizations across the country to benefit…

Actress Ivana Alawi has ranked first on the list of top YouTube content creators in the Philippines for the year 2020. The 23-year-old Fil-Moroccan, who recently hit 10 million subscribers on the video-sharing platform, also either became part or produced three out of the Top 10 trending videos that entertained Filipinos this year. The rest of the top and breakout creators are fan-favorite personalities and comedians like Alex Gonzaga, Cong TV, Viy Cortez and Donnalyn Bartolome. YouTube also noted the emergence of creators from the gaming community like ChoOx TV, and celebrities who turned to vlogging like Kathryn Bernardo. Here…

This music video by Pinoy rapper Flow G of Ex Battalion is the most watched on YouTube Philippines for the year 2020, followed by the MVs of K-pop sensations Blackpink and BTS. Based on the video-sharing platform’s year-end report, Flow G dominated the list with his Araw Araw Love MV, which has almost 63 million views to date after premiering last February. In the video, the Ex Battalion member — whose real name is Archie dela Cruz — features his YouTuber girlfriend Angelica Yap, formerly known as Pastillas Girl on the noontime show It’s Showtime. Taking the second and third spots…

After Ang Pangarap Kong Holdap, comedian Jelson Bay has a new film streaming on Netflix — Finding Agnes. And this time, he’s the leading man. In the film directed by Marla Ancheta, Jelson plays a successful entrepreneur named Brix who finds himself in Morocco while trying to resolve unfinished issues with his estranged mother. There he meets his mother’s adopted daughter Cathy, played by Sue Ramirez. In a recent STAR interview, the 42-year-old actor shared that when the Finding Agnes lead role was offered to him, his first reaction was he thought it was a prank. “Nakilala nila ako sa Ang Pangarap…

Supporters and netizens have sent their condolences to OPM icon April Boy Regino’s family after he died on Sunday, November 29. On Monday, November 30, his wife Madelyn Regino acknowledged their show of support in a Facebook post. She also expressed her gratitude to President Duterte for the medical help he extended to the Di Ko Kayang Tanggapin singer-songwriter before he passed away. According to Madelyn, Duterte sent monthly financial assistance for April Boy’s maintenance medicines since the time he was Davao City mayor. “Maraming salamat sa aming mahal na mahal na Pangulo Duterte na mula noon hanggang sa huling…

Miss USA Lindsey Coffey was crowned Miss Earth 2020 during the 20th anniversary edition of the pageant Sunday morning, held virtually for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She is also the first American representative to win the title. The rest of the winners are the Philippines’ Roxanne Baeyens who was named Miss Earth Water, Denmark’s Michala Rubinstein as Miss Earth Fire and Venezuela’s Stephany Zreik as Miss Earth Air. When she was announced as the winner, Coffey appeared to have not taken it seriously at first, asking the host: “Wait, are we kidding or what? Is this…

(UPDATED) April Boy Regino, the veteran singer/songwriter behind such OPM hits as Di Ko Kayang Tanggapin, has passed away. He was 59 years old (not 51 as earlier reported). The loss of the recording artist, whose real name was Dennis Regino Magloyuan Magdaraog, was first confirmed on Sunday in a Facebook post by his younger brother Vingo. “Nakakalungkot naman ang araw na ito, wala na ang Kuya April Boy ko,” wrote Vingo, who together with his brothers started out as the ’90s group April Boys before April Boy pursued a solo career. No other details were provided in the post,…

Former members of the OG girl group SexBomb recently got together again for a “get, get, aww!” moment. In an Instagram video shared by Sexbomb founding member Rochelle Pangilinan, she and other girls of Eat Bulaga’s former song-and-dance group were seen dancing to what seemed like a remix of their 2003 hit The Spaghetti Song. Rochelle said she was joined by Mia Pangyarihan, Mae Acosta, Grace Nera, Cynthia Yapchingco, Aifha Medina-Cheng and Aira Bermudez, who were all part of the Sexbomb heyday during the 2000s. The girls introduced some new choreography and fans couldn’t help but react that they still…