According to the rumor mill, she is supposedly leading a life of flamboyant luxury, she has practically everything that she needs and appears not to want of anything else.

You could just imagine how terribly shocked we were when we gathered some private infos about her to the effect that she’s not half as liquid as a lot of people perceived her to be.

“Hay, naku!” says a friend of hers, “’kala n’yo lang ay living in unadulterated luxury ang manay n’yo? Kung alam n’yo lang, she needs to slave her guts out working so she’d be able to lead a fairly comfortable existence.

“Di naman talaga nalalayo ang pamumuhay niya sa rati niyang lifestyle,” our source asseverates. “I mean, nu’ng time na married pa siya sa isang gigolo who masqueraded as a man of opulence and sophistication. Oo nga’t galing sa may sinasabing pamilya ang lalake pero packaging n’ya lang ’yun dahil matagal na silang na-bankrupt.

“Ang pagkakaiba lang, di naman dependent sa kanya ang ka-live-in niya sa ngayon and he has an imposing house to boot where both of them live in, but apart from that, she’s very much on her own. If she doesn’t work, he is not going to provide for her needs.

“The set-up is not that good,” our source intones, “but at least she has a flamboyant house to live in which, in a way, is good for her image. Otherwise, she is very much on her own. Pity naman, di ba?”

Oh, well, to qoute an adage, beggars just can’t afford to be choosy. At her age, that is the best offer in years, she had no other choice but to grab it.

It’s a good thing that she really happens to be a veritably gifted singer who’s capable of dishing out the hits of the ’60s, the ’70s and the ’80s which, to be blunt about it, are still the rave in the States where she’s permanently residing at these days.

 

Susan Calo Medina survives the ever-changing trends and fickcle-minded TV aficionados

HER unique personality never changes with time. Way back then, I remember vividly that it was during the ’70s when I started watching her show Travel Time on IBC.

Honestly, I’ve always enjoyed watching the well-poised and strikingly intelligent woman with that distinctive throaty voice who used to regale me with interesting stories about equally enchanting places I had never been to.

Even then, she already had that appealingly distinctive quality of a perfect raconteur.

Many years after, I’m so thrilled to be talking to her on a one-on-one basis since most of her interviewers had already departed prior to my late arrival.

Looking at her, I can’t help but be amazed with how she’s been able to preserve that celebrity aura after more than three decades of slugging it out in the business.

“One’s aura doesn’t change,” she stresses coolly. “You are what you are.”

She shares does she does Pilates, which is good in strengthening your muscles.

“It was pioneered by Joe Pilates who was into body rehab,” she enlightens us further. “The first people who benefited from it were the soldiers who were debilitated by the war. He invented some traptions to exercise their muscles.”

So what keeps her pre-occupied these days apart from the Travel Time show that she’s doing for Studio 23 (Kabarkada Mo!)?

“The Susan Calo Medina’s Travel Time, The Magazine, naturally, whose fourth issue has recently hit the newsstands,” she proudly answers.

Carrying the theme “Every Which Way,” the October to December 2011 issue is packed with articles on major and emerging destinations, travel tips, people and culture.

The magazine, incidentally, is loaded with articles and useful information and eye-catching images such as “Island In the Sun, In Love with Ifugao” by Floy Quintos who returns to one of his favorite destinations and is reminded why he has so much passion for Ifugaos.

Since Christmas is just around the corner, get practical tips and gift ideas in some of their interesting articles.

Going back to Ms. Medina, she takes pride with the fact that she’s still married with the same man for 46 years now.

“He’s a gentleman who collects rents from properties,” she says kind of vaguely in obvious reference to her husband of more than four decades. “Right now, I just spend some time with my regular exercise, the one I told you about awhile ago, enjoy laughing with my friends, enjoying my job on the side, my family and the world around me and always happy to enjoy the job that I’m into.

“If you don’t like your job,” she explains, “you get tired and that’s not good. In my case, I go on a vacation and get paid by the sponsors. Enjoy ka na, binabayaran ka pa. Isn’t that what living is all about?”

Right now, she says she’s enjoying life with her three daughters.

“When I’m not so busy with my job,” she says, “I hie off to London and visit my two daughters. The three of them used to stay in London but my youngest got fed up with life in Europe and decided to stay with us in Bel-air.

“No,” she vociferously protests when told how well-off their family might be, “we are middle class. Upper middle class but middle class just the same,” she stresses, an expression of smugness written all over her slightly made-up physiognomy. “Comfortable enough to give our children good education.”

So be it!

 

Scared of his own infidelity

So, this actor is presently scared of his own infidelity, he is trying to win back his former girlfriend’s trust and love at all cost. The problem is she seems to have realized her folly and is not that interested anymore to reconcile with him.

In the not-so-distant past, the girl took everything in stride and tried to understand her boyfriend’s erratic behavior. For unlike other girlfriends, she was not allowed to pay his condo a visit without prior notice.

In the few occasions that she did try to call, his girl Friday was the one who received the call and told her quite vaguely that her boss wasn’t home and was able to leave his cell inadvertently.

On top of that, her friends from the States had truckloads of colorful stories about her boyfriend’s supposedly eyebrow-raising sexcapades with different men, the most colorful of which, happens to be his intimacy with this Eurasian guy whom he regularly visits on a once a month basis.

After absorbing all of these sordid details, the young actress was purportedly crest-fallen and had come to the decision of putting an end to her cheap stupidity.

That should be the attitude.

With real men, you can always put up a good fight when they start looking at other women’s direction. But with closet queens, you’re always on the losing end because you can never compete with the kind of men that they fancy.

 

An aging ‘Hubadera’s’ sad story

She was not dirt-poor but her family was admittedly hard up to the point of becoming deprived of the basic necessities in life.

But her being poor did not stand in the way of her becoming a part of the kind of profession that she had chosen to become a part of.

She may not have successfully become a major actress but as a starlet, she’d been able to amass considerable wealth to the point of becoming veritably liquid.

Honey, she’s a veritable maneater and men from all walks of life have always tremendously enjoyed the kind of sexual expertise that she can offer.

Lately though, she has come to the decision of really going straight and get married and have children of her own just like any woman she knew.

Sad to say, the man she was able to get hooked with happened to be shrewdly manipulative and money-oriented.

After getting what he wanted, he just left the poor woman in the cold with nothing but her great big tears to condole with her.

Poor girl. The man she got hooked with happened to be a veritable gigolo and after getting what he hankered for, he just left him unceremoniously.

How so very sad.

 

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In Photo: Susan Calo Medina

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