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LOOKS like it isn’t Regine Velasquez who is moving on to ABS-CBN
but Cristine Reyes, Ara Mina’s younger sister.
Cristine’s contract with the Kapuso network
had just expired. But even before her contract expired, she already
turned up at Wowowee to do a dance number to promote her first movie
with Ara. Aptly titled Ate, the movie was produced by Ara for her
younger sister.
Ara has joined the cast of the ABS-CBN’s
afternoon soap opera Prinsesa ng Banyera, which we heard has been
getting good ratings lately. That move prompted speculations that
sooner than we think, Cristine will follow suit.
Previous reports had it that GMA 7 has the sole
option to renew Cristine’s contract—although people close to
Christine insist that her personal handlers has not yet been
provided a copy of her final contract. If the network does not use
its option, then ABS-CBN should be quick in signing up Ara’s
younger sister, especially now that she is being romantically linked
to Willie Revillame.
Heard from my editor (who was one of the very
few to be invited in a special screening) that Cristine gave a very
felt performance in the movie Ate, which is directed by Lore Reyes.
The movie had its premiere yesterday at Megamall.
Valerie Concepcion: Slim is in
IT seems Valerie Concepcion’s showbiz career
is taking on a new shape, quite literally and figuratively. The
single mom to a 3-year-old daughter has just landed her first job as
an endorser for the all-natural slimming pill Slenda.
Her TV commercial piloted last weekend and she
is just too happy for this good break. The commercial has her
dancing in some sexy outfit that exposes her enviable waistline and
curvaceous body. It’s just sexy, not bold—she warns us.
‘’I am really flattered that I have been
asked to be Slenda’s endorser despite being a single mom which, of
course, I have always been honest about,’’ enthused Valerie,
citing some other part included in standard advertising contracts
that requires good-moral character. “I’m glad the clients are
not old-fashioned and judgmental, “ she added.
‘’I have to believe in the product before I
can be a convincing endorser, right? I lost about 10 pounds in two
months after I started taking Slenda,’’ she testified.
But losing weight is not the only flattering
thing happening to her these days. She has just been renewed as one
of the permanent co-hosts of Willie Revillame in the noontime show
Wowowee—which is expected to stay despite the recent decision of
the Department of Justice to go on with the charges involving ABS-CBN
executives and employees for the ULTRA stampede that killed so many
people.
Another good news for Valerie is being
handpicked to be one of Vhong Navarro’s leading ladies for his
forthcoming movie with Star Cinema. ‘’I think it was a good
decision to have moved over to ABS-CBN about a year ago,’’ she
confided.
She insisted she has no love life these days, as
she is busy not just raising her daughter but also being the
breadwinner of her family.
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