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IT was an ‘orange-letter day’ for all Nicksters
who celebrated their power to choose, to let it all out and hailed
Angel Locsin as this year’s “Pinoy Wannabe Awardee” during the
recently concluded Nickelodeon’s 20th Kids’ Choice Awards (KCA)
Preview Party. But besides the record-breaking 42,000 kids who
voted, Aliw Theater was jam-packed with a total of 2,600 kids and
kids at heart who—together with the biggest stars, biggest stunts,
the most outrageous oddballs and larger-than-life
entertainment—rejoiced in what was considered the grandest,
slimiest mess-fest in all of KCA preview party history!
Even before the gates opened at 1
p.m., kids, their parents and guardians already queued up at the
registration, all eager to be part of this milestone event. As they
entered, pairs of Nickelodeon pong bong noisemakers, sets of
glow-in-the-dark bracelets and temporary KCA tattoos and stickers
were given out so the kids could make some Nick beat and have a
grand time. There were fun booths like Kids’ Choice Awards Wall of
Fame and Photo Op area where anyone could strike a pose amid the
background of KCA highlights.
Spotted gracing the orange carpet
were ‘Nick fans’ like Mark Gil with his wife Maricar and
children Stevie and Gabby; Sherylyn Reyes with kids Paoie and
Quirsten; Yayo Aguila and her kids—Patrizha, Dana, Dannielle and
Adam Martinez; Angelu de Leon with daughters Nicole and Loise;
Lander Vera-Perez with adorable daughters, Reigne and Reigen; Gerard
Pizarras and Jan Marini with daughter Rian; and Gladys Reyes and
son.
Hosts Sam Concepcion (last
year’s Pinoy Wannabe Awardee), the comical and klutzy Nickie plus
the Parkour and hip-hop dancers led the slime-packed preview party
starting with a retrospection of past KCA hosts, Wannabes, slimed
artists, highlights and taking kids’ votes seriously through the
years.
Kids went wild when the floor
opened up and revealed SpongeBob SquarePants who came all the way
from Bikini Bottom to dance to a song from his movie. Kids were also
treated to snippets of the KCA 2007 in Los Angeles where Ben Stiller
was 2007 Wannabe Awardee and SpongeBob SquarePants got its fifth
consecutive blimp as Favorite Cartoon and Drake Bell (Drake &
Josh) as Favorite Actor. MTV VJ and charming Anne Curtis announced
Black Eyed Peas as the Favorite Group and Justin Timberlake as the
Favorite Male Singer, among other winners. Then kids and the hosts
simultaneously let out a big long burp in honor of the kids as this
year’s burping champion!
Winners of Nickelodeon’s
Kids’ Choice Awards Toy Run promo—Mikko Alfaro, Miggy Panganiban
and Seiah Yu—who each won a shopping spree worth P120,000 worth of
toys from Toy Kingdom shared their exciting experience with the
audience.
Pinoy Wannabe nominees John Lloyd
Cruz and Angel Locsin sent in greetings while Makisig Morales gave a
super performance (with his group Mak and the Dudes). Christian
Bautista, who proudly showed off his SpongeBob necktie, rendered his
latest single. Imago’s spirited performance of their hit single
“Taralets!” got the audience grooving.’ No one made the
Nicksters more animated to stand up, “pound the hammer, drill the
floor and shoot the crane” than the loveable Dora The Explorer who
helped announce this year’s Pinoy Wannabe winner, Angel Locsin.
Though Makisig Morales didn’t
bag the blimp, kids still considered him their hero when he agreed
to sit down the humongous slime machine and got slimed silly . . .
all in the name of Nickelodeon tradition of messy fun!
The celebration, which ended with
a fountain of fireworks and confetti burst, was so the far biggest,
slimiest and most outrageous get-together in Philippine KCA history!
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