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She got it from her mama! Iana Bernardez proved she had inherited the acting genes of her mom Angel Aquino with her first-ever acting award. The relative newcomer won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in J.E. Tiglao’s coming-of-age tale Metamorphosis at the 2019 Cinema One Originals awards night on Friday at Dolphy Theater. She bested Yayo Aguila, Jasmine Curtis-Smith, Via Antonio, Dwein Baltazar and Frances Makil-Ignacio. During her speech, she thanked director J.E. for trusting her with the role of Onang and lead star Gold Azeron, who also went on to win Best Actor, for “being so easy to…

Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said that she has invited Marian Rivera to visit other tourist spots in the country, after the Kapuso star and her family recently went on a vacation to Bohol. “Pumunta sila sa Bohol. Mukhang nag-enjoy sila. So ini-invite ko si Marian na dapat umikot din sila in the other tourist spots. I mentioned to them the Cebu Safari, na mag-e-enjoy si Zia. Sabi niya, aayusin namin. Dapat kasi ang tourism, pam-pamilya talaga. Hindi na kailagan mag-abroad para mag-enjoy ang pamilya, dapat around the Philippines lang,” she said. Secretary Puyat also said that she wants to tap…

Films with LGBT themes emerged as big winners at the 15th Cinema One Originals awards event on Friday night at the Dolphy Theater. Giancarlo Abrahan’s Sila-Sila, a “ghosting” story involving a gay couple, was honored Best Picture on top of other awards, namely, Best Supporting Actor for Topper Fabregas, Best Screenplay for Daniel Saniana and the Audience Choice Award. “The film is really about connections. Paano ka nakakabuo ng mga relasyon, di lang sa minamahal mo kung di sa mga kaibigan mo. At kwento to higit sa lahat ng aking matalik na kaibigan, tatlong taon namin sinulat to, ang saya…

BY MARY PAULINE DEL ROSARIO Save the date… or should we say, start saving your allowance! The first-ever Filipino designed Vans is coming this Friday! For the first time, an artwork of a Filipino artist will be featured on a pair of Vans classic slip-ons after the design won in the 2018 Vans Asia Custom Culture Competition. Fascinating trivia: The artist behind the winning design is only 23 years old! University of the East College of Fine Arts grad Nikko Pelaez bested over 10,000 submissions across Asia and took home US$2,000 (around P100,000) for his winning design called “Along With…

Former Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach went makeup-free and shared a barefaced selfie as she joined the #AsSheIs challenge on Instagram. Contrary to what most people think, the 30-year-old beauty queen said she also struggles with being comfortable in her own skin. Nevertheless, she took a picture of herself without the usual styling and glam team hoping to inspire “others who need it”. “Every day, we all struggle to be comfortable with our imperfections. But today, I’m taking this picture to say hello ME,” she wrote in the caption. “Just me. No makeup. No glam team. No styling. And, I’m happy…

Hollywood star Willem Dafoe witnessed first-hand the EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986, while shooting the award-winning film Platoon in the Philippines. In a recent video interview with Vanity Fair, which broke down his career milestones and his most iconic film roles to date, the Oscar-winning actor, now 64, revealed that the war film directed by Oliver Stone was almost scrapped due to the political upheaval at that time. “Platoon was a movie that took a long time to get made. Oliver Stone saw lots of actors because he first just wanted to cast a group of actors and then…

Amid online backlash, the Philippine distributor of the Spanish-produced animated film, Elcano and Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World, has decided to reevaluate the movie’s local release. In a statement sent to media outlets on Friday, CrystalSky Multimedia said that it has heard the public’s sentiments on the movie originally scheduled to screen in Philippine cinemas in January 2020. “After careful thought and consideration, we have decided to reevaluate the movie. We are in the process of inviting historians, members of the academe and film experts to a film preview. We will base our next steps and actions on…

Did Angelica Panganiban just take an OOTD photo with matching joke at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial? In an Instagram story, the actress was seen posing in the middle of tombstone-like dark grey blocks that some netizens have identified as the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany, where the actress is vacationing. Angelica, who was unsmiling and wearing a long, dark dress, captioned it: “Kabibili ko nga lang pala ng bansang ito. Ayun OOTD ko.” “Tabi! Dadaan ang madam!” she added. According to Berlin’s official travel website VisitBerlin.De, the Holocaust Memorial — also known as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe —…

It feels like it was only yesterday when Catriona Gray conquered the “universe” with her beauty, wit and ability to see challenging situations with “a silver lining.” Now, the Pinay beauty queen’s reign as Miss Universe 2018 is coming to an end. While doing one of her last activities for the international pageant, the 25 year old couldn’t help but express some thoughts on the last stretch of her Miss U journey. “Feeling a mix of emotions shooting my final photoshoot for Miss Universe today! So excited for you all to see it,” she said on Instagram. Meanwhile, in a…

How time flies, indeed. Aga Muhlach’s twins with wife Charlene Gonzalez have turned 18 today. The proud father took to Instagram to greet his children Atasha and Andres as they’ve officially entered “adulthood”. “How time files. The first time I held you both was when you were born. 18 years later here you both are in your senior year,” he wrote in his post. The 50-year-old Nuuk star also gave his children some pieces of advice on their birthday. “As I’ve always told you growing up… always be kind to everyone and never judge people. Love one another. “I know…