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By Rome Jorge, Lifestyle
Editor
HE started his literary career
here at The Manila Times. His column, “Playing with My Tools,”
reintroduced Filipinos readers to RJ Ledesma, then better known for
being that kid, Joey, in the Royal Tru Orange commercial (if
you’re old enough to remember, you’re old—like RJ and I are)
who was sent by his mommy to buy some suka [vinegar, not puke]. He
also co-hosted for that FHM-like TV show Men’s Room. In his column
entries, he intimated: his fixation with supermodel Phoemela
Barranda; his dependence on his yaya [nanny/wet nurse], belying any
similarity of television commercial persona with his true
self—that of a scion of real estate development empire, Ledesco;
and his supposedly henpecked and Catholic-guilt-stricken
relationship with Vanessa, now his wife. Read it and weep:
The Comet that Killed the
Dinosaurs [RJ Ledesma’s pet name for his girlfriend, specifically
when she’s pissed at him]: Why do you keep writing about Phoemela
Barranda!? You think I find that funny!? Every week it’s Phoem
this and Phoem that! It’s enough already that I have to compete
with your yaya sleeping beside you at night, then Phoem pa!
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