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Main event. Don’t expect billing problems in what could be the biggest concert of the year featuring four of the country’s biggest divas because they’re following the oldest rule: seniority. No pun intended.

Kuh Ledesma, the Pop Diva, has a dream and it’s a good one too: to gather three other divas—the likes of Zsazsa Padilla, the divine one; Pops Fernandez, the concert queen; and the reigning diva of them all, Asia’s Songbird Regine Velasquez—in one night of female power. A grandiose plan, indeed, and it’s been in the planning stage for the past five years. Finally, on December 6, they will come together in Araneta Coliseum to realize that dream, and all roads shall lead there—including ours.

They’re calling it “Divas 4 Divas.” It’s so big that another concert venue, Music Museum, is co-producing it with Araneta Coliseum. It’s so big that even before they could meet for day one of practice, they’ve already booked several key cities in the US for a series of concerts. It’s so big that the queens decided not to fight over billing and go for the first in first out method: who came first gets to be billed first.

Hence, it’s Kuh, Zsasza, Pops, Regine—in that order. We doubt if the Songbird will even get an “and.”


Profiled. Wise of TV5 to borrow stars from ABS but still manage to introduce home-grown talents like Kevin Lapena. Kevin is the leading boy (he just turned 18 so we’re unsure if he can be called a man now) of Lipgloss, the loose adaptation of CW’s Gossip Girl, airing every Saturday at 5PM. He has yet to be seen outside his home station but is beginning to make waves— literally, too, since he’s a swim boy in the series. Lipgloss is currently TV5’s highest-rating drama and only one of two new shows launched in August that will still be seen after November, since the rest were told to just finish their first season.

Back to Kevin, the sophomore college student of DLSU is also a member of the green team’s dragon rowing team. And he was a swimmer back in high school at Don Bosco Makati. No wonder it’s so easy for him to drop his pants in every other episode of Lipgloss. It’s good for the ratings, too.


Just in. Manager-columnist Alfie Lorenzo was asked by two sets of TV crews from ABS-CBN for a few words on the recent theft in his Panay Avenue apartment, in which he reportedly lost P10M-plus, but instead of giving an interview, he gave a mouthful of diatribes against the Kapamilya Network itself—and the cameras kept rolling, said Judy Ann Santos’ manager. We got ABS-CBN’s side on the matter immediately, and they swear it’s not their crew but that of other stations, including TV5 and UNTV.


P.S. Someone blinked in an otherwise head-on box office collision this October 22. Star Cinema’s My Only U is pushing through with its opening date, but not GMA Film’s Sundo. As we always say, one movie a week is good for the industry but two movies in one play date is news—especially if one’s from ABS and the other is from GMA.