Diana Zubiri disappointed ???

MANILA, Philippines - Diana Zubiri said she was disappointed when GMA 7 pulled out her best friend, Sunshine Dizon, from the cast of the TV adaptation of Danny Zialcita’s “Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan.”

“We were so happy to hear we’d be working together. It’s been a long time since ‘Encantadia,’” Diana told some writers on Friday at the Mandarin Suites in Quezon City. “But Sunshine was already in the hospital then.”

Lilybeth Rasonable, GMA 7 assistant VP for Drama, said Sunshine suffered from migraine. The network decided to replace her because “she couldn’t work anymore” under medication, which she needed constantly. “We asked her to get well first,” Rasonable told Inquirer.

Sunshine was replaced by Camille Prats—making a comeback after delivering her first child—in the role of Lily, the character portrayed by Vilma Santos in the screen version.

Diana said she had not spoken with Sunshine since work on the show started. “The subject is kind of sensitive,” the actress said, refusing to elaborate.

Bed scenes

Diana plays Elsa, the embattled character portrayed by Hilda Koronel. To prepare for the role, Diana watched the 1982 movie, produced by Viva Films. She said, “Miss Hilda was good. I really felt her character’s pain. I don’t think I can survive what Elsa went through.”

Diana is teamed up with Marvin Agustin as Louie, earlier played by the late Dindo Fernando. “We have several love scenes,” she said. “In the beginning, it felt awkward. We had to shoot one bed scene four times because he couldn’t stop giggling.”

Could Diana ever fall for a guy like Marvin? “He’s okay. But I can no longer go for men who have kids, like my previous boyfriend—it was sort of traumatic,” she said. She was apparently referring to comedian Vhong Navarro. Marvin has twins, now 3, with ex-girlfriend Tetet Dy. “I deserve my partner’s full attention,” Diana said.

“Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan,” directed by Gil Tejada Jr., also stars Sandy Andolong, Biboy Ramirez, Victor Aliwalas and Maybelyn de la Cruz. It premieres at 4 p.m. today.

Angel Locsin stays on top ???

It's a feat that Angel Locsin has managed to stay on top in a business where the turnover rate is high.

Angel knows how it feels to be number one. Well, many times over. She was FHM Philippines' sexiest woman. For this year, Maxim Philippines picked her as the sexiest woman in the country.

"We really can’t control the result. We can’t dictate the winner or who the people will vote for...kailangan ko bang kunin ang lahat? Happy ako at pinagtitiwalaan ako at naniniwala sa akin ang mga tao...those who have voted for me, maraming salamat sa mga boto ninyo...isipin na rin natin na nag-iiba na ang times. Mas importante sa akin na mas maraming naniniwalang mga tao sa akin," the actress related.

Angel remains as one of the sough-after image model of products. Just recently, she was chosen as the new face of Folded and Hung.

F&H’s president Ronald Pineda believes that Angel is the number one celebrity endorser.

"Grabe ang sexy niya talaga," said Ronald looking at the three larger than life photos of Angel wearing a pair of jeans and nothing on top. "She captures all the market from A, B and C. She’s a leading lady. She has classy beauty and she’s a perfect endorser...pagkumukuha kami ng endorser, we want someone who can communicate to both men and women. Si Angel, kaya niya ito."

Pitching for the clothes, Angel said F&H apparel perfectly fits her lifestyle as they have clothes for all occasions. More importantly, their clothes are affordable.

She shared what convinced her to pose topless, wearing only F&H jeans in her billboard. "Na-challenge ako kasi hindi ko naman ginagawa yun...of course I was tensed when they told me about it. Pero biglaan kasi rin yun and when it was explained sa akin na ang jeans naman yung binebenta sa layout na ito, I agreed with their concept," said Angel.

She also clarified the nasty rumor that she "snatched" the F&H endorsement from Claudine Barretto.

Pineda, meantime, why chose a single celebrity to endorse the clothign line: "I also want to protect their image. At the same time gusto ko they would feel that they are being taken care of. May superstar feeling pag solo...kuha niya ang limelight talaga at ang lakas ng communication kapag mag-isa lang talaga!"

As her TV series with Piolo Pascual entitled "Lobo" ends its run soon, the actress is faced with another intrigue: That she's getting along well with Piolo because of some scenes in the last few episodes.

"Paano nangyari yun na may issue ng agawan eksena? Masaya na matatapos na kami kasi maraming revelations na mangyayari. Nagkasama kami sa ‘E Live’ and

‘Wowowee.’ Basta hindi ko na kailangang sagutin, manuod na lang kayo ng ‘Lobo and be the judge. Basta kami, we worked very hard kasi mahihirap ang mga eksena namin," she said.

After her last taping for "Lobo," Angel is scheduled to fly to Bangkok for another project.

Angel Locsin & Marian Rivera - Who’s FHM’s sexiest woman?

The FHM search for the country’s sexiest woman has never been this hot. The voting ended last Sunday but the winner will be announced in June. It’s said that Marian Rivera is the top favorite in the online voting, with Katrina Halili and Angel Locsin following her.

Obviously, this displeased Angel’s fans and her camp issued some negative remarks about Marian. In return, we got this letter from a group of Marian fans called “MarianKnights” about the issue.

“This is in response to the PROs of Angel Locsin who allege that a GMA insider revealed that GMA-7 supported Marian by giving away P300 worth of load to vote for Marian. Who is that insider? The PROs should name names.

To begin with, FHM said they have so far only partial and unofficial results. We think the PROs should wait until the official results are issued before they say GMA is doing an inside job to make Marian win. What if it is Angel who’d win? We don’t know yet, right?

“As for us ‘MarianKnights,’ we did our best to support Marian Rivera. Our fan club never questioned that two weeks ago, it was Katrina Halili who was leading the polls and Marian was only second in the unofficial tally. Instead, what did we do? You can visit our website at marianrivera.net to see we did a lot of hard work to support her.

International members of our fans club sponsoring the Philippine chapter sent remittances to buy the loads to text FHM and we can show you proofs of these remittances to demonstrate that it’s Marian’s legions of fans all over the world who supported her, not GMA. And we are talking only of our fans club. Marian has several other fans clubs supporting her and they also want her to win this contest conducted by FHM Magazine. So, if Marian would win, Angel fans should not go sourgraping. Be a good sport.”

Well, all we can say is that we don’t know how FHM will react to this. Their sexiest woman search has turned into a popularity contest for movie stars similar to those conducted by other fan magazines. Marian has not even done a sexy pictorial and yet she’s being voted to win in FHM’s sexiest woman search. Maybe they should change their criteria about who’s eligible and who’s not. Actually, this has become a personal duel between Marian’s and Angel’s fans. Katrina’s fans, strangely, remain very quiet.

Hyori Lee extended the contract with VS

Now Lee Hyori again becomes VS Girl.



Vidal Sassoon has renewed the contract with Lee Hyori for another year. For that contract, Vidal Sassoon water (treatment spray) and wax will be "Hyolee water" and "Hyolee wax".




And more Vidal Sassoon will release a Summer Hair Collection featuring Hyolee next month.

I discovered Hyori and Finkl whilst I watched a live concert by FINKL (2000 Seoul Fencing Stadium. At the time of the concert Hyori and Finkl were relatively new. In the successful years taht followed, Hyori's popularity grew and grew, but in the recent years I formed the following opinion about the fate of Lee Hyori and Finkl members once Finkl fell apart. - Yuri and Jin would not pursue musical careers; - Joo Hyun, the powerhouse of the band, would definitely go on, and produced a relatively good comeback after face surgery and a strick diet plan..

Although I personally thought Hyori was the best looking of all of four and I loved lee Hyori's singing as well, I knew Hyori would make it big, but it would not be because of Hyori's singing but more for Hyori's looks, and as a result, she has won numerous contracts for hair and beauty products.. - Hyo Ri Lee was the only one who had what sells today: Lee hyori was a babe, and Lee Hyori had tolerable singing ability. The proof is on he latest albums.

She sings OK, the song selection is well suited for hyo ri's ability, but since Hyori's ability does leave much choice for melodic variety, the album is musically uninteresting. This is not to say that I will not buy Lee Hyori's next album.

Lee Hyori is a member of the Korean pop group Fin. K.L. but also went solo in 2003, Fin. K.L. stands for "Fine Killing Liberty", which loosely translates into the "fin" (i.e the end) of "liberty killing," which means that the girls will stand up against and put an end to anything that will "kill (our) liberty."

The name was chosen for the band by DSP Entertainment even before the members were chosen. Lee Hyori, who would become the group leader due to Lee Hyori being the oldest, was discovered while taking sticker pictures with her friends and was actually the last to join the group, just before their launch in January 1998. Fin. K.L. debuted officially on May 22, 1998 with their first single "Blue Rain."

It was received quite well, but it was not until their second release from their first album: To My Boyfriend, that Fin. K.L. truly proved their popularity and "To My Boyfriend" became the first of their numerous number 1 hits. Following their fourth album Forever, Hyori launched her solo career: first as an MC, of "Time Machine" and "Happy Together" and then with the release of her first album, Stylish E.

Gillian Chung's Scenes will not be deleted in "Mei Lanfang

After involving in a nude photo scandal, Hong Kong Pop star Gillian Chung of "Twins" still had a hard time to face the fans.


Gillian Chung at the airport after the nude photo scandal

But an industry insider said to Beijing News that her scenes in the movie "Mei Lanfang" will not be deleted.

Director Chen Kaige's new movie "Mei Lanfang" will be on screens at coming December. Gillian plays the role of young wife of 'Mei', the late Peking opera master, in the movie.

Gillian Chung

An industry insider has denied reports that scenes featuring Hong Kong star Gillian Chung will be deleted from the movie "Mei Lanfang". The star has been involved in a nude photo scandal, the Beijing News reports on Tuesday.

Director Chen Kaige's new movie "Mei Lanfang" is set to hit the screens this December. Gillian plays the young wife of Mei, the late Peking opera master in the movie.

Some media reports have suggested that all scenes featuring Gillian will be deleted. Such a suspicion was caused by a promotional booklet released by China Film Group Corporation, the movie's producer during the Shanghai International Film Festival.

The booklet featured several names of the star-studded cast such including Zhang Ziyi and Leon Lai. But Gillian's name was absent.

However, Huang Bin, an assistant of Chen Kaige denied these reports, saying that the film editing has not been completed. The director's final decision is still unknown.

Gillian once tried to return to the stage after being involved in a nude photo scandal. But the pop singer had to stop working after her return to the spotlight drew several complaints from the public.

Anne Curtis Dyosa seen as Dyesebel matched

Young Filipino actress Anne Curtis very happy and feels like real Dyosa (goddess) from the importance given to her by ABS-CBN Tv-network.

"Very happy! Sobrang natutuwa ako na napunta sa akin ang project. Super kina-career! Super ine-effort ko ang taping namin. Yung mga outfits," Anne said.

The young Filipina plays three personalities on the said TV-series, bird, mermaid, and lady centaur on which she really need to carry a heavy costumes always, but Anne are having fun even though she cannot tell the exact airing date.



Its also seen as GMA-7 Dyesebel (Marian Rivera as a lead star) matched that make Anne nervous and push more to make this project best.

In addition, Filipino actress has an epic movie on the line under Viva Films that would be shot soon.

Marian Rivera Hotter than ever.

Unbelievable is perhaps the only word fit to describe Marian Rivera’s rise to fame. Years before she was cast to play Marimar in the localized version of the Mexican telenovela, her career was foundering, and she was happy to be in forgettable daytime soap, quickie movies shot on video, and in provincial road shows, along with other talents that couldn’t get regular gigs on television.

Marian Rivera was at that time a name one couldn’t mention in the same breath as Angel Locsin.

Now, it’s the other way around.

Recently, the star of the top-rating Dyesebel on GMA-7 signed a deal with the owners of a clothing manufacturing and retailing concern to be the face and body of Jag Black, a clothing line that for some time had Angel Locsin as its female celebrity model.

Wags have been churning out nasty items about how Marian snagged the deal away from Angel, but the owners of the clothing label say otherwise.

“Angel’s contract with us had expired in May this year,” says my former classmate at the UP Institute of Mass Communication and now Jag’s legal counsel Jorge Cabildo. “Hence, the company is no longer legally bound to keep Angel.”

Becky Aguila said, in a recent interview, that she and her client, Angel, opted not to renew their deal with Jag.

No matter what the circumstances were by which Marian Rivera got into a deal with Jag, the important thing is she will be the clothing line’s celebrity endorser for its new premium denim line Holiday ’07.

The deal will have Marian appearing in Jag’s giant billboards across the archipelago, and that can make her face even more familiar to millions of Filipinos. She will be in what the owners of the label call “cutting-edge collection, features rocking bold denim pieces which were carefully crafted to achieve the best urban styling for the sophisticated jeans cult of this generation.”

“The Jag Black women’s line continues the trend of exuding sensual beauty, without losing its hardcore edge,” they add.

According to them, Marian has a “perfect fusion of sexiness and toughness, sizzling hot actress” making her the ideal “Image Model” for Jag’s new Rock and Romance Denim collection.