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THE
replacement of aging matinee idol Gabby Concepcion by
the much-younger heartthrob Dennis Trillo in the
upcoming GMA Films offering I.T.A.L.Y. can only
give Dennis’s career a major boost. Obviously.
The
young dad’s romantic escapades didn’t escape preying
eyes of the press, though. In the movie, he is reunited
with former squeeze Rufa Mae Quinto. In several
interviews, no matter her insistent denials, the
comedian-sexy actress’s facial expression and body
movements seemingly tell all. She is happy with what’s
happening onboard.
If
you’re together in a cruise with a former lover, and
both of you are unattached, as how you maintain to the
press, the opportunity of sharing more intimate moments
off-cam is very much possible.
Prior to
the trip, there were reports on the Carlene Aguilar-Cristine
Reyes-Dennis Trillo encounter at the
Shangri-La
Plaza.
For those born just this morning, Aguilar is the mother
of Dennis’s son. They aren’t married, though they remain
civil and even friendly for the sake of the kid. It was
reported that Dennis and erstwhile (current?) girlfriend
Cristine were at the upscale mall to watch a movie.
Apparently, Carlene and her family were there as well.
The
meeting was a bit awkward, as recounted by Cristine in
an interview on ABS-CBN’s The Buzz. She said that
Dennis had visited his son just before their movie date
but was totally clueless that Carlene and her entourage
would also be doing mall time.
Tip to
Dennis: Make sure you go to a place where the likes of
Carlene won’t visit. Say, for example, Robinsons Imus or
Robinsons Novaliches. Or, how about SM Lucena City or SM
San Fernando,
Pampanga.
But now
that Dennis is on a cruise in
Europe as part of a major movie project...oh, well, the
silent-but-deadly-waters that is Dennis Trillo continues
to travel. As Rufa Mae might exclaim, “Ibang
level na ‘to. Todo na ‘to.”
Gabby again
NOW that
he’s certified Kapamilya when he signed a two-year
contract with ABS-CBN, Gabby Concepcion will be again
seen by his fans, who are now probably mothers, with
perhaps a few grandmothers thrown in. For the meantime,
though, he can’t do a movie with Star Cinema because of
an earlier contract with GMA. He was supposed to do a
film opposite Claudine Barretto, another ABS-CBN
contract star, but the project has since been majorly
reworked into a soap opera.
Gabby
continues to say that he didn’t like the script given to
him for the GMA Films project. When he was presented
with the story concept, he said, he found it good; alas,
the shooting script became an entirely different animal.
Well, according to Gabby at least. Time was also the
enemy and before the revision could be completed, he was
already in the Philippines and was signing a new
contract with ABS-CBN.
Though
Gabby has reunited and made amends with his former
enemies, the likes of Lolit Solis, his former manager
remains unstoppable. Manay Lolit was reportedly heard
saying something like, “Gabby should be a veteran
already when it comes to signing documents. He has
signed several marriage contracts before. But it seems
he still does not read what he’s signing.”
DJ Montano comes out
AND we
mean in public, after a month seemingly in hiding. Not
out of the closet because he did that a long time ago.
We guess
everyone has seen with much gusto the TV interview of DJ
Montano, the “talented” Filipino subject of Australian
blogger Brian Gorrell.
With
family members, Montano on prime-time TV denied all the
accusations that his former boyfriend has thrown his
way. That he didn’t owe Gorrell a total of $70,000. That
he has the money to pay, but won’t do so because he said
he’d rather spend it paying lawyers to get back on
Gorrell, specifically get him in jail. That he didn’t
use drugs. That he didn’t hurt anyone. That he is not
gay.
All
right, he didn’t say that last bit but Montano’s denials
continue to baffle—to say the least—those who follow
Gorrell’s controversial blog, which has also morphed
into a crusade for HIV/AIDS awareness and education. No
pun intended, but that is something very positive.
But what
a bigger can of worms the blog has opened.
Since
its revelations hit the papers, radio and television,
the clamor to know more about the ugly and nasty sides
of the so-called members of Philippine “high” society
has become insatiable.
Old
enemies of the social circuit like Kitty Go have since
come out. In all her interviews about Gorrell and the
issues attached to him, she promotes her equally
controversial books, When Chic Hits the Fan and
Chic Happens. As they did when they first hit
bookstore shelves, both titles are again selling like
the proverbial hotcakes. Go’s books are a roman à clef
of her experiences as lifestyle magazine
editor/publisher, and as she herself has said in a radio
interview anybody with a bit of knowledge of pop culture
could easily identify the fashion and entertainment
personalities she deliciously skewers.
Gorrell
apparently has found a major ally in her.
Of
course, unlike in Gorrells’s case, Go’s skewering didn’t
attract the same monstrous media coverage, although one
might correctly assume that those she raked through the
coals found little comfort in that. But with Gorrell now
as the torchbearer, the wickedly nasty battle against
posses and poseurs can only continue in the grandest
scale. |
