Slowly but hopefully, surely. That’s how Janno Gibbs hopes the healing of his marriage to Bing Loyzaga will be like in the coming days. He knows he hurt her feelings after he got linked to Gladys Guevarra, now living like a princess with with her Fil-Am boyfriend in the US. That’s why he’s moving heaven and earth to win her back.
He knows it’s not a walk in the park. Total reconciliation doesn’t happen overnight.
Time, after all, heals all wounds. And he’s leaving it up to Bing to bring their relationship back to normal again.
For now, it’s enough for Janno that he’s back in the family abode and he’s narrowing the gap between him and Bing. In fact, they’re staying in the same bedroom again. Janno can now heave a sigh a relief now that Gladys has moved on. Lian the EB (Eat, Bulaga!) babe who claims Janno courted her, has also bowed out of the scene.
But this doesn’t mean he has forgotten them, especially Gladys, his partner in many a comedy show.
“I miss Gladys in shows because she’s a good performer,” admits Janno. “I miss trading jokes with her on Eat, Bulaga! Her talent is something else.”
They haven’t talked since Gladys tearfully denied on national TV that something more than meets the eye was going on between them. They have yet to have a closure on the issue. Problem is, Janno complains, they just don’t have time for it. He and Gladys, for one, are oceans apart.
Janno swears he has learned his lesson well and the headline-hogging incident was an eye-opener.
“The biggest lesson,” he reveals, “is to be carful with my actions. I am the `touchy’ kind of guy, even with my male friends and co-hosts, Anjo Yllana being one of them. That’s why some movie columnists wrote that I’m gay.”
But there’s nothing to it, really, Janno relates.
All is quiet in Janno’s life right now. And he hopes it will continue to be so, now that he’s dealing with 10 children in GMA 7’s new quiz show Kakasa Ka Ba Sa Grade 5?
As host, or “Chairman of the Blackboard,” Janno will join these smart graders or ‘classmates’ (chosen from a field of around a hundred hopefuls) in a show that aims to entertain and inform. Based on the original concept of Mark Burnett Productions’ (producer of Survivor) Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (also aired in the US, Australia, Germany and Canada) , Kakasa will bring in contestants who will get the chance to win up to P1-M cash by answering questions from Grades 1 to 5 textbooks.
Peanuts? Think again. One question in the Filipino category (the others are Math, Hekasi or Heografiya-Kasaysayan-Sibika) goes like this: “Ano ang sinasagisag ng araw sa ating bandila?” (What does the sun in the Philippine flag stand for?)”
Admit it. You forgot. Or you were absent when your Filipino teacher told you what it is (really now!) So the contestant ends up “cheating”: Asking one of his 10 classmates standing just beside him for the answer.
Surprise, surprise! The boy or girl knows better. He or she writes the correct answer while the contestant stares blankly into space. Ending: The contestant is saved and moves on to the next question. Each correct answer has a corresponding cash prize.
And oh yes, all the episodes will pass through the Education Department’s scrutiny. So parents can leave their children in front of the TV set without worrying what the little one will see. Who knows? The young viewer just might get the answer to next week’s homework and stop bugging dad or mom about it.
So you think you’re smarter than a fifth grader? You may be in for a big surprise once the weekly show pilots on Saturday, 6:30 p.m., Oct. 27.