Jolina Magdangal is quite busy with her career right now and lovelife is something that she’s allowing to enter her life again. Her break-up with ex-boyfriend Bebong made her realize new things about love. According to her, her man’s happiness is important and she won’t let that happen anymore.

Rumors came out that she is currently dating Rivermaya drummer, Mark Escueta. According to Jolina, they just went out and she noticed that Mark has respect in her parents.

It has not yet been confirmed if Mark Escueta and girlfriend Aia de Leon of Imago already broke up.

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“Katorse” is a film that was shown during the 80′s which starred Dina Bonnevie, Gabby Concepcion and many more. Since it was one of the films that was a hit way back in the 80′s, ABS-CBN decided to revive it and make it into a teleserye. The character of Dina Bonnevie will be portrayed by Erich Gonzales and her leading man will be EJ Falcon. Both of them were winners of different ABS-CBN reality shows.

Erich is very excited and honoured that she was chosen to portray the role together with the industry’s finest actors such as Cherie Gil and Gardo Versoza.

Britney Spears’ ex-husband, Kevin Federline, showed up during a golf tournament in California with a new size. The people who saw him there were in shock about his new figure and said “Is that K-Fed??” He must have packed a few pounds during spring.

The ex-wife of Michael Jackson has made a deal with Katherine Jackson and her lawyer that she will not pursue the custoday of her children with Michael Jackson.

Rowe was granted visitation rights and the “timing, frequency and manner of visits shall be implemented according to the best interests of the children, as determined by a child psychologist selected jointly, and paid jointly”, according to the announcement.

Debbie Rowe filed for divorce in 1999 and gave Michael the full custody of their children. She got $8.5 million as settlement.

It is evident that Filipinos adore the Harry Potter franchise because after showing “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” in cinemas for 12 days, the franchise has reached Php 1 Billion. This is the largest amount that a foreign franchise has ever reached in the history movie series. The news was revealed by Warner Brothers Philippines’ General Manager Francis Soliven.

The Harry Potter movie series is now at par with successful film series such as “James Bond”, “Spiderman”, “Starwars” and “Lord of the Rings”.

The house of Sarah Jessica Parker’s surrogate mother was broken in and Ohio Police have already arrested suspects for this incident. Actually, the arrested individuals who allegedly broke in the house were suburban Ohio police chiefs.

Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter and Bridgeport Police Chief Chad Dojack were accused of masterminding the burglary so that information about Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick can be sold to tabloids.

Sarah Jessica was very much concerned about the surrogate mother who gave birth to the couple’s twin daughers in Ohio.

The leaders in industrial rock during the 90′s, Nine Inch Nails, will be performing in Manila for their “Wave Goodbye” tour. The tour is rumored to be their last tour before they retire as a band.

Ely Buendia’s band, Pupil, will be performing as the front act for Nine Inch Nails. Pupil was chosen personally by Nine Inch Nails out of 10 Filipino bands that were shortlisted.

The concert will be held at the Araneta Coliseum on August 5. Tickets are available at www.ticketnet.com.ph or at the gates of Araneta Coliseum.

BB Gandanghari (formerly known as Rustom Padilla) enrolled herself in a world-renowned ballet school prior to her coming out as BB Gandanghari. She had private ballet lessons and this was where she learned to move femininely.

The ballet school where BB enrolled was also attended by Robin Padilla’s daughters, Ciara Sotto, Vilma Santos, Charlene Gonzales and many other celebrities. She enrolled while she was still popularly known as Rustom Padilla and hasn’t “come out” in the closet.

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Charo Santos, host of MMK and President of ABS-CBN, would be honored to portray the first Filipina president for MMK. She expressed this intention during the press conference of the 18th anniversary of MMK. She said that with her hectic schedule portraying a very important role in ABS-CBN, she can’t do anything acting roles right now. She aims to have a special episode on the 20th anniversary of MMK (in 2 years).

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Hale has been dormant for quite some time but they are back with a new album entitled “Kundiman”. The band decided to write in Filipino as a tribute to the Filipino heritage. The album contains 8 tracks and the carrier single of the album is “Bahay Kubo”. The band shot a video for this song with Heart Evangelista as the lead character.

Hale has been in the music industry for 5 years and have released 3 albums to date. Aside from the new album, they also have a new drummer named Pao Santiago.

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Paw Diaz was launched as a Star Circle Quest talent at first but now she has matured and was just recently launched as FHM’s newest cover girl for the August issue. Last July 9th, she had a very provocative production number which made people, especially in the blogosphere, speculate that she posed for FHM.

Her boyfriend, who is based in Singapore, did not like it at first. It took her 2 years to persuade him.

ABS-CBN, her mother station, is cooking up some projects. She is currently doing a new film and aside from that, she will be doing a play entitled “A Streetcar Named Desire”.

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Ex-president Joseph Estrada, who was an actor before becoming the president of the Philippines, is shooting his comeback film. Erap, his popular screen name, will be doing a comedy film. Filipinos have known him doing action flicks but this time, Erap decided to do a comedy film because according to him, poor Filipinos are already suffering so enough with making them cry while watching movies. He wants the poor to be happy even for a few hours.

His leading lady would be the comedy queen herself, Ai-Ai delas Alas.

President Gloria Arroyo signed a proclamation of the country’s new National Artists for 2009. The new national artists are:

Manuel Urbano, a.k.a. Manuel Conde – Film and Broadcast Category (posthumous) ;
Lazaro Francisco – Literature (posthumous) ;
Federico Aguilar-Alcuaz – Visual Arts, Painting, Sculpture and Mixed Media
Cecilia Guidote-Alvarez – Theater
Francisco “Bobby” Mañosa – Architecture
Carlo J. Caparas – Visual Arts and Film
Pitoy Moreno – Fashion Design

The National Commission for the Culture and the Arts searched for individuals who have great contribution in the Philippine Arts (Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts, Literature, Film, Broadcast Arts, Fashion Design and Architecture, and Allied Arts). In addition to the search being done by NCCA, there are also recommendations of Filipinos for the president to proclaim as national artists.

Lorayne Pardo, wife of Richard Gutierrez’s assistant Nomar Pardo who was killed during an accident while Richard was driving, filed a case against Richard Gutierrez at the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in Imus, Cavite where the accident happened. She filed the case “Reckless Imprudence Resulting to Hhomicide” to let Richard Gutierrez know that she wants justice on the death of her husband.

Annabelle Rama was in rage when she learned about this and accused Lorayne of being a traitor as she was offered Php 4 million. On the other hand, Lorayne denied the existence of that huge amount of money. According to Lorayne, she was motivated to file a case against Richard because of the reckless driving tickets she found in her husband’s wallet. She remembered when her husband would tell her that Richard is such a reckless driver.