Gretchen Barreto: “When you give wholeheartedly, there’s no room for making sumbat.” (Sumbat is Tagalog for blame.)
About these pictures with John Estrada at my girl Rufa Mae Quinto's party at her house, I would just like to commend Ms. Barreto for being a free, independent woman. It's such a big scandal in the Philippines, because there is a sexist double standard for women. If Gretchen was a man, they'd just say, oh "he's just a babaero" (ladies' man), and it wouldn't even have been made into a big media spectacle, but because she's a woman, it's automatically scandalous. It's
marianismo at it's most disintegrating force in the Filipino culture, and the way Gretchen handled it in the press, like she just laughed it off and said "Oh it was nothing, I reconciled with my husband, and we're fine." I applaud her, because it's nothing. So that's why I put this here, not to scandalize it, but to open some Filipinos' over-conservative closed-mindedness: look at it, it's a beautiful woman having fun at a party with her friend, and they just happen to have a kiss. There should be nothing scandalous about it
, because women should be equal to men.
Dingdong Dantes: “It’s flattering when people say I’m sexy but that’s not how I want to be remembered.”
Polo Ravales: “When you’re in a relationship with someone from show biz, there are others involved: The fans.”
Gloria Diaz: “Beauty is skin deep, but ugliness is to the bone.”
Vicki Belo: “The only cure for a broken heart is to fall in love with someone else, but that will just lead to another heartache.”
Amalia Fuentes: “It’s not a sin to be born poor; it’s a sin to die poor.”
Richard Gutierrez and Angel Locsin might reunite as a love team for an upcoming movie. KC Concepcion and Angel said that they're both willing to star in a movie together with Richard.
Richard and Angel's last movie together was in 2007's 'The Promise'. It's only been a year! But it feels like it was so long ago. It's amazing how fast things go by in Philippine showbiz...
