MANILA, Philippines — Cole Sprouse, star of Netflix’s hit coming-of-age drama-thriller “Riverdale,” arrived in Manila on April 18 for a fan meet-and-greet on April 20 at the SM Mega Fashion Hall and Glorietta Activity Center.
A Netflix representative told Philstar.com that Sprouse’s visit to Manila has nothing to do with Netflix or “Riverdale” as he arrived here through Filipino apparel brand Bench, for which he is an endorser.
Manila Manila Manila!
— Cole M. Sprouse (@colesprouse) April 19, 2018
On April 19, Cole’s tweet that simply said “Manila Manila Manila!” garnered over 90,000 likes and 14,000 retweets.
Bench owner and founder Ben Chan also shared several photos of Cole upon the latter’s touchdown in Manila.
“It’s official - @colesprouse is here!” said one of Chan’s captions.
“Let’s give @colesprouse a warm welcome to Manila,” another caption read.
Cole is the twin brother of Dylan, and both first became known for respectively playing Cody and Zack in the Disney Channel series “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.” The twins’ characters in the series have also appeared other Disney Channel shows like Miley Cyrus’ “Hannah Montana.”
Cole, however, has appeared alone as Ross Geller’s son in the NBC TV sitcom “Friends” and as Billy in the Ashton Kutcher-starrer “That ‘70s Show.”
A graduate of Humanities specializing in Archeology at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study together with his brother, Cole worked briefly in archeological excavations and lab work.
Cole also took photography classes at the New York University and has been commissioned to shoot for Teen Vogue, The Sunday Times Style, and W Magazine, among others.
Since 2017, Cole has been starring as Jughead Jones in the CW TV series “Riverdale,” available in the Philippines through Netflix.
Cole is reportedly dating his “Riverdale” co-star Lili Reinhart, who, together with their other co-star, Camila Mendes, was recently involved in a controversy.
Lili and Camila called out Cosmopolitan Philippines in their social media accounts for Photoshopping their bodies in the magazine’s March issue.