10 Philippine Showbiz Today
October 22 - November 7, 2016
Jan. 22-Feb.7, 2015
Kris’ GMA show blocked
by infl uential insider
Kris Aquino is suddenly on
the limelight once more after she
gave lengthy interviews where she
denied the allegation that she’s
wearing stolen jewelry from Mrs.
Imelda Marcos, mentioned her
aborted love affair with QC Mayor
Herbert Bautista with whom she
had a friendly healing lunch, her
“sama ng loob” with ex-husband
James Yap for not telling them
himself that Bimby is having a
baby brother, her feelings about
Pres. Duterte (“I want him to
succeed”), her warning to drug
addicts (“Stop it”), how much
she misses ABS-CBN, and her
aborted appearance on GMA-7
via a show of TAPE through her
new manager, Tony Tuviera.
She said she cried herself to
sleep for three weeks because of
what happened with GMA.
We’re told she was really
hoping that she’d be occupying
the time slot which is a pre-
program to Eat Bulaga, where
Calle Siete is now being shown.
But sorry to say that another show
will soon take its place, top billed
by the new discoveries from Eat
Bulaga’s That’s My Bae contest.
We heard someone powerful
rejected Kris’ entry in that slot,
but sorry, we’re not at liberty to
say who. We’re sure Kris herself
knows who that person is. So, as
long as that someone is objecting,
she can never have that time slot
for her own show. What we find
even more disconcerting is that
when you read reactions on social
media, much of the comment is
negative. People don’t seem to
have much sympathy for Kris and
they’re having fun putting her
down. But we still hope that she’ll
still be able to find her own place
in the sun now that she’s 45 years
old and has passed the peak of
her career.●
- Mario E. Bautista, Malaya