Gabriela Spanic is 34 years old, 8 months pregnant, posed without clothes for the May 2008 issue of Nueva, & looked like the gorgeous beautiful goddess with the heart of gold that she is. Gaby tiene 34 años y ocho meses de embarazo, y la gran actriz con corazon de oro posó desnuda y embarazada con toda gloria del mundo para la revista Nueva.
'La Usurpadora' was a big hit in the Philippines and led to her visit to Manila which made her a household name, and the worldwide hit is currently airing weekdays at 5pm in the USA on Telefutura. Gaby survived a cancer diagnosis, and the near fatal death of her twin sister last year due to a brain hemmorhage, and there's talk that Gaby will be signing a contract with Televisa after she gives birth, to signal her return to telenovelas after she chose to leave NBC-Telemundo after being under contract with the American company for 7 years.
Perhaps she'll run into Marian Rivera if she ever takes up Televisa's offer for her free scholarship to their prestigious drama school (which they use to cast future actors for their TV shows).
Bonus Picture from February 2008: (More pictures from this pictorial to be posted soon)
Thalia and Fernando Carrillo return tomorrow via Rosalinda, on Telefutura at 4pm tomorrow nationwide in the USA! The first chapter will debut tomorrow, and replace 'Por Un Beso' which ended today with Spanish subtitles on CC1. It's a spectacular TV afternoon now, with Rosalinda at 4, La Usurpadora with Gaby Spanic at 5, and La Marca del Deseo at 6 with Pasion de Amor star Alfonso Baptista. All fantastic shows. Rosalinda continues to air in the Philippines weekdays at 8pm on QTV.
The Philippine remake is scheduled to air next year after Dyesebel ends. Marian Rivera and Dennis Trillo will tentatively star in the telenovela to be produced by GMA, who purchased the rights from Televisa Mexico.
Rosalinda is showing on QTV, Mondays - Fridays at 8 pm. I think GMA is preparing the audience and wetting their appetite for the Filipino remake of Rosalinda, which is to start production this year. After Marimar was a hit for GMA, ABS-CBN followed the bandwagon and was in talks to remake Rosalinda into a Filipino version starring Angel Locsin, but GMA beat them to the punch and bought the rights from Mexican TV company Televisa first. I have a feeling it will star Marian Rivera, because I don't see anyone else who could do this role now that she's the new Angel Locsin, so to speak. Poor Angel Locsin, I really loved her. But even though this role in Rosalinda is almost exactly the same role as in Marimar, and it will be done again by Marian Rivera, it doesn't really make any difference because Thalia played almost the same poor girl character in all the three "Maria" novelas, and it was still a hit, because it was done by Thalia. As far as Marian Rivera having that same star power waits to be seen, but I think she will if she just keeps riding this upswing in her career well.
As far as who'll play Fernando Carrillo's role, I think GMA is going to choose Richard Gutierrez, even though he doesn't fit the role, and he's too young, it's gonna be him anyway just for the fact that they need star power to vehicle this novela, and Marian Rivera who will be a superstar by the time the novela shows based on the overpublicity she's getting now, plus Richard Gutierrez = ratings heaven for GMA. But if you ask me, Richard Gomez fits the role more, but they won't choose him because he's too old, and in the Philippines, since kids graduate at 16, once a celebrity hits 24, people think they're old already. And once you hit 30, unless you've established yourself as a qualified superstar by this age, you're practically ancient in Philippines showbiz. You know what doesn't make any sense in the Philippines? On cable, the only Spanish channel they have is TV Española, which doesn't get high ratings because
#1: it's all in Spanish without subtitles, which most Filipinos don't understand #2: it only has boring news shows, boring talk shows, and boring cooking shows all day long, which most Filipinos don't understand, nor would want to watch
If the cable company chooses at least one international cable channel in Spanish to show in the Philippines, why don't they choose Telemundo, which has English subtitles via Closed Captioning, or Univision/Televisa instead of TV Española, since most of the telenovelas that Filipinos have a fondness for, and most of their favorite telenovela stars from the heydey of it a few years ago: Thalia, Fernando Carrillo, Gabriela Spanic, Laura Flores, are on Televisa and Telemundo? Filipinos don't care about the celebrities they show on TV Española, because they're all from Spain, Filipinos don't know or care about Spanish celebrities. Besides my beloved Penelope Cruz, I don't even know many Spanish celebrities, nor do I care to know since it doesn't really interest me. But Filipinos do know tons of celebs from Latin America from their favorite telenovelas, if the Philippine cable companies want to get better viewership and more subscriptions, it doesn't make any sense that they get a TV station from Spain, TV Española instead of Telemundo (from the US) or Televisa (Mexico), since most Filipinos don't care about what's happening in Spain, but they do want to know what's happening with Thalia and the telenovela world in Mexico, Latin America, and the US, which you will find on Televisa, Univision, or Telemundo (and with English closed captioning), but won't find on TV Española. Even Spaniards don't like to watch TV Española, they call it "telebasura", but that's the only Spanish channel they have in the Philippines. Studies show that Spanish is the most popularly chosen foreign language to learn in the schools and universities in the Philippines, many Filipinos have the choice of Chinese, French, Italian, etc., but the foreign language that is most chosen by Filipinos is Spanish, but the only channel available to Spanish language students in the Philippines to help them learn and improve their Spanish is the most boring Spanish channel in the world full of telebasura, as the Spaniards say. That's just great, it's no wonder. They should have Televisa or Telemundo, since most of the telenovelas that Filipinos loved (Marimar, Rosalinda) were from Televisa or Telemundo, and students in the Philippines learning Spanish will learn Spanish better watching their favorite actors and actresses, rather than the crap they show on TV Española, and it is crap because I watched it when I was there in Manila, and it's total crap they show on that channel, I speak Spanish and I was so bored just minutes watching it. The only interesting thing that came on was a Rafael Nadal tennis match, but wait, that wasn't even on TV Española, that was on the Sports network, so that doesn't count, hehe.
Also, they have Korean channels and Japanese channels on Philippine cable, but they don't have English subtitles. What's the point of having those channels, having access to all of these great Asian series, if Filipinos can't understand them when they watch it because it's all in Japanese or Korean with no English subtitles?
If you ask me, it's quite obvious that the Philippine cable companies are catering more to the foreign businessmen in the country, than to their own countrymen, and that's why the cable that Filipinos pay for monthly are filled with TV Española (for Spanish businessmen), Japanese (Japanese businessmen), Korean (Korean businessmen), and Arabic (for businessmen from the Middle East) TV stations that most Filipinos won't even watch due to a language barrier, and that sucks. That totally sucks, because the cable should be prioritized to the Filipino masses, not to businessmen who visit the country for only a few months or weeks and leave.
New things to add in the list of things that don't make sense in the Philippines, hehe, sadly, hehe.
Rosalinda Opening Credits Fernando Carrillo singing a rock song from Rosalinda Speaking of Fernando Carrillo, he's been doing movies for the past few years, and he's returning to television in a new telenovela called El Engaño on Telemundo really soon since Telemundo is showing promos of his new novela right now, which means it will probably be next month. And lucky for you Pinays living in the US that it's on Telemundo and not Univision, which means that you can watch it from the beginning and understand it even though it's in Spanish, because Telemundo provides English closed captioning on CC3. Up to the Minute Update, Fernando Carrillo has been let out of his mulit-million dollar contract with NBC Telemundo, and replaced with Christian Meier, the star of Zorro which is showing right now on ABS-CBN. This means that Doña Barbara, the new upcoming telenovela starring another Filipino favorite: Gabriela Spanic, will have to look for a new leading man now that NBC-USA-Telemundo has bumped Meier out of that novela to this one:
As detailed, GMA7 purchased the rights to produce the Filipino remake of the popular telenovela Rosalinda starring Thalia and Venezuelan actor Fernando Carrillo, who was received like a king when he visited the Philippines in 2000. I saw him when he guested on the Mexican show Muevete, and he talked fondly of his experience in the Philippines.
Who will the lead actors be in this Filipino remake? We'll just have to wait and see, but I'm pretty sure that Marian Rivera will be playing Rosalinda now that she's advanced her career from before when she was just a supporting actress to now where the spotlight is on her now that Angel Locsin transferred networks.
Gabriela Spanic is 34 years old, 8 months pregnant, posed without clothes for the May 2008 issue of Nueva, & looked like the gorgeous beautiful goddess with the heart of gold that she is. Gaby tiene 34 años y ocho meses de embarazo, y la gran actriz con corazon de oro posó desnuda y embarazada con toda gloria del mundo para la revista Nueva.
Thalia and Fernando Carrillo return tomorrow via Rosalinda, on Telefutura at 4pm tomorrow nationwide in the USA! The first chapter will debut tomorrow, and replace 'Por Un Beso' which ended today with Spanish subtitles on CC1. It's a spectacular TV afternoon now, with Rosalinda at 4, La Usurpadora with Gaby Spanic at 5, and La Marca del Deseo at 6 with Pasion de Amor star Alfonso Baptista. All fantastic shows.
Rosalinda continues to air in the Philippines weekdays at 8pm on QTV.
Rosalinda is showing on QTV, Mondays - Fridays at 8 pm. 
I think GMA is preparing the audience and wetting their appetite for the Filipino remake of Rosalinda, which is to start production this year. After Marimar was a hit for GMA, ABS-CBN followed the bandwagon and was in talks to remake Rosalinda into a Filipino version starring Angel Locsin, but GMA beat them to the punch and bought the rights from Mexican TV company Televisa first. I have a feeling it will star Marian Rivera, because I don't see anyone else who could do this role now that she's the new Angel Locsin, so to speak. Poor Angel Locsin, I really loved her. But even though this role in Rosalinda is almost exactly the same role as in Marimar, and it will be done again by Marian Rivera, it doesn't really make any difference because Thalia played almost the same poor girl character in all the three "Maria" novelas, and it was still a hit, because it was done by Thalia. As far as Marian Rivera having that same star power waits to be seen, but I think she will if she just keeps riding this upswing in her career well.
As far as who'll play Fernando Carrillo's role, I think GMA is going to choose Richard Gutierrez, even though he doesn't fit the role, and he's too young, it's gonna be him anyway just for the fact that they need star power to vehicle this novela, and Marian Rivera who will be a superstar by the time the novela shows based on the overpublicity she's getting now, plus Richard Gutierrez = ratings heaven for GMA. But if you ask me, Richard Gomez fits the role more, but they won't choose him because he's too old, and in the Philippines, since kids graduate at 16, once a celebrity hits 24, people think they're old already. And once you hit 30, unless you've established yourself as a qualified superstar by this age, you're practically ancient in Philippines showbiz.
Speaking of Fernando Carrillo, he's been doing movies for the past few years, and he's returning to television in a new telenovela called El Engaño on Telemundo really soon since Telemundo is showing promos of his new novela right now, which means it will probably be next month. And lucky for you Pinays living in the US that it's on Telemundo and not Univision, which means that you can watch it from the beginning and understand it even though it's in Spanish, because Telemundo provides English closed captioning on CC3. 
Up to the Minute Update, Fernando Carrillo has been let out of his mulit-million dollar contract with NBC Telemundo, and replaced with Christian Meier, the star of Zorro which is showing right now on ABS-CBN. This means that Doña Barbara, the new upcoming telenovela starring another Filipino favorite: Gabriela Spanic, will have to look for a new leading man now that NBC-USA-Telemundo has bumped Meier out of that novela to this one:
As detailed, GMA7 purchased the rights to produce the Filipino remake of the popular telenovela Rosalinda starring Thalia and Venezuelan actor Fernando Carrillo, who was received like a king when he visited the Philippines in 2000. I saw him when he guested on the Mexican show Muevete, and he talked fondly of his experience in the Philippines.
Fernando Carrillo in Subic, Philippines in 2000.
