A âfan signâ interview with Maine MendozaFUNFARE By Ricky Lo (The Philippine Star) | Updated September 28, 2015 - 12:00am
http://media.philstar.com/images/the...ne-Mendoza.jpgTop and below: Maine Mendoza poses with a blown-up picture of Wally Bayola as Lola Nidora at a big house in New Manila, Quezon City, that served as the âmansionâ of Lola Nidora for the date of Maine and Alden Richards
Will I talk?
Maine Mendoza is doing her first-ever interview, three months after she broke into television initially as Yaya Dub, the nanny of Lola Nidora (Wally Bayola), and now as the love interest of Alden Richards in the Eat, Bulaga! kalyeserye which has been keeping Filipinos around the world glued to their TV sets Monday thru Saturday.
We are here at a big house at the corner of Broadway and 9th Sts. in New Manila, Quezon City which, just an hour earlier, served as Lola Nidoraâs mansion where Alden and Maine (for the meantime not as Yaya Dub) were having their lunch unperturbed by nobody. The AlDub Nationals know what happened, with Maine saying âThis must be love!â not just once but twice, much to the rejoicing of the kalyeseryeâs avid followers who set a new Twitter record of more than 23 million tweets (as of this writing, still counting!), breaking the previous Saturdayâs 12M-plus mark. After all, Sept. 26 was declared National Pabebe Wave Day.
Itâs actually The STARâs second exclusive interview with Maine. The first was late in July when Maine was only starting in Bulaga, recruited because of her popularity as the Queen of Dubsmash, barely a month before the kalyeserye was launched by accidentâŚunscripted, uncharted, going on and on and on with AlDub co-stars also including Jose Manalo (Tinidora) and Paolo Ballesteros (Tidora) sustaining the viewersâ interest with their hilarious antics.
This Saturday, facing us as Maine Mendoza and not as Yaya Dub, the countryâs phenomenal overnight star, is communicating to us through fan signsâŚon camera, that is (for this coming Saturdayâs edition of CelebriTV, Oct. 3, 4 p.m. on GMA).
http://media.philstar.com/images/the...ra-Picture.jpgâAng hirap ng hindi nagsasalita,â says Maine, who turned 20 last March (Alden is 22), before the cameras start rolling. But Maine needs no words. Her flexible face can, like a picture, relay a thousand words.
For the TV interview, however, Maine is in character, answering our questions through fan signs. But for The STAR, yes, she talksâŚand talks!
Like Alden, she keeps a hectic schedule. Alden goes home to Laguna every day and Maine to Sta. Maria, Bulacan, with her family (said to own several businesses, among them four gasoline stations).
Does she still sleep?
âI try to get as much sleep as I can,â assures the La Salle St. Benilde Culinary Arts graduate (who did her on-the-job training at a high-end restaurant in New York).
Again like that of Alden (who didnât become as popular during his three years as a KapusoâŚuntil he caught the worldâs attention with the kalyeserye), Maineâs life drastically changed overnight, with her privacy all but gone. Through it all, she has remained level-headed, well-grounded, obliging requests for photo-ops/selfies with a smile.
âThatâs what my parents have been constantly reminding me,â adds Maine,
âhuwag lalaki ang ulo.â Same thing Aldenâs widower dad has been telling him. Are her parents as strict as Lola Nidora? âMas strict si Lola,â laughs Maine.
On their date in last Saturdayâs episode, Maine choked a bit and Alden quickly gave her a glass of water, holding her hands as he assisted her.
âKilig siempre pero kinabahan,â admits Maine who has junked her initial dream to be a flight attendant, âMas gusto ko pong mag-artista.â
Aside from Aldenâs dimples, Maine says that what she likes about Alden is his eyes (which is the same thing Alden said he liked about Maine). âAnd his being a super gentleman.â
Asked if she has a boyfriend, Maine says, âIn high school.â Now sheâs fancy-free like Alden.
So is there a possibility of her and Alden becoming sweethearts in real life?
May pag-asa ba si Alden kung manligaw sa kanya?
âMayroon po!â Then she laughs and laughs.What conditions, if any, will she impose on Alden (the way Lola Nidora makes it hard for Alden to woo Yaya Dub)?
âAll he has to do is ask for my parentsâ permission.â(Postscript: Setting of Alden and Maineâs date was supposed to be the Vera-Perezâs residence at the sprawling Sampaguita Events Place, just like one of their previous dates, so a get-together for Philippine STAR columnist Danny Dolor was transferred to the events placeâs second floor. But some technical problem cropped up so the set was moved somewhere else. Back to the original plan for Dannyâs affair. As a bow to the National Pabebe Wave Day celebration, Danny and his guests posed for a pabebe âfamily picture.â)
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