Ready for JamesKiss?

DonKiss is gone for good and no amount of tears or pressure from the tandem’s fans can revive it…unless the United Nations intervenes and brings it back. (Oops! That’s a joke!!!)  

Kisses Delavin and Donny Pangilinan have aired their sides, generating mixed reactions (some of them fuming) from their fans but most of them in defense of Kisses.

That’s the sad/bad news.

The happy/good news is that, while Donny has yet to find a new screen partner, Kisses has already found one. Actually, Regal Films did it for her. A Funfare source said that the company conducted a poll on who is the perfect partner for Kisses in the movie D’Ninang and the winner is…Jameson Blake. If and when, would the tandem be known as JamesKiss?

When Kisses celebrated her debut en grande in May 2017, her manager surprised her by choosing 18 handsome guys to present the 18 Roses, James among them.

“That’s how I met him,” said Kisses, “but I don’t know him personally.”

Oh well, they will have enough time to know each other better when their first movie together starts shooting.

Kisses was asking, “What do you think about the team-up?”

Honestly, yes, Jameson and Kisses will make a handsome pair.

Rosang Agimat (temporarily?) shelved

Gabbi Garcia and Jeric Gonzales, the stars of the tragic GMA TV series Rosang Agimat.

Confirmed: The GMA TV series Rosang Agimat has been shelved.

The series was only into its first few days of shoot when tragedy struck. It will forever be known as the “last unfinished” project of Eddie Garcia who was mortally hurt on the Tondo set.

“Rosang Agimat was only a working title,” GMA SVP for Entertainment Lilybeth Rasonable told The STAR in a text message. It will not be pushed through in the meantime. In short, it is postponed.”

Toto Natividad, director of the abortive series, may not be tapped to handle Rosang Agimat’s replacement. (Natividad has been intriguingly quiet, not making any comment about what happened to Eddie whom he directed in the Kapamilya TV series FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano.)

“The genre of a new series may be different,” clarified Lilybeth.

Rosang Agimat would have been the biggest break for Gabbi Garcia (in the titular role) and Jeric Gonzales who have undergone intensive training for it. Sadly, it wasn’t meant to be. For sure, something better is waiting for them.

Beauty queen passes away

The last April Love Jordan crowned 2009 International Beauty & Festival winner in Beijing.

Beauty queen/model April Love Jordan passed away on June 20 due to terminal liver cancer. She was 31.

Discovered and mentored by fashion designer Jontie Martinez, April was crowned as the first International Beauty and Festival winner in 2009 in Yunnan, China and was named Miss Secret Charm in the 2006 Miss Tourism Queen of the Year International contest in Malaysia. 

In the 2012 Miss World Philippines, she finished 3rd Princess (also Best in Long Gown and Miss Manila Hotel), 2010 Saniata ti Ilocos Sur winner, 2009 Bb. Pilipinas top 10 Finalist, 2006 Mutya ng Pilipinas second runner-up and 2006 Miss Philippines Earth finalist (also Gandang Ricky Reyes awardee).  

Former Miss World Philippines national director Cory Quirino said in a message, “Prayer for one of my lost queens, April Love Jordan. The peace you sought is now yours, the sickness you so bravely fought is no longer for the life you bravely held on to has now been replaced with eternal life. My heart breaks but yours is now unbreakable. Sleep well, April.” — Celso de Guzman Caparas

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