MANILA, Philippines—It’s an open secret that Edu Manzano and Pinky Webb are a couple. They were reportedly like honeymooners in Vegas recently. No hasty wedding, though. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? Not when you’re as famous as Edu and Pinky.

Unidentified

Angel Locsin was spotted in Fiama on a Monday with an unidentified date. Habitues of the bar insist that Gel and the non-show biz guy were quite sweet. I informed her manager Becky Aguila about it via text but there’s no word from her yet. After all the intrigues unfairly hurled at Gel, she deserves to have fun. Time out from show biz, time’s ripe for romance?

Party girl

Also at Fiama, Phoemela Baranda was dancing playfully with Mico Palanca (ex of Bea Alonzo). He seemed rather coy as Phoem was doing her thing. Phoem’s BF guitarist Ira Cruz need not worry. A party girl like Phoem just has her own way of spicing things up with good clean fun.

Guess who

Guess who this celebrity ex-GF of a hunky actor is. Her alta sociedad friends claim that she keeps putting show biz people down. She keeps blabbering about how baduy her ex is. Why was she with him to begin with? Is her disdain for show biz folk a delayed reaction or a bitter afterthought?

Intimate dinner

Cesar Montano will have an advanced birthday dinner on Wednesday at his resto Bellisimo. It’s gonna be an intimate get-together with his closest chums. Buboy’s not one who goes for lavish parties. Is he reserving his exact birthday for an even more intimate celebration with his wifey Sunshine?

Heard that she was supposed to be a surprise guest in “Singing Bee” for Buboy’s pre-taped birthday show but she backed out at the last minute.

Will they finally put all their marital woes behind them? An older, wiser Buboy and a stronger marriage?

Like robots

“Artists these days are like robots na,” Louie Heredia observed. “There are just too many of them. Not enough space and time for their personalities to shine.” Louie and other ’80s icons Randy Santiago, Gino Padilla and Raymond Lauchengco are all set to outshine each other in “Greatest Hits of the ’80s” on Aug. 8 at the Aliw Theater, a concert for for the benefit of Philippine Foundation for Tomorrow’s Good Children (tickets 911-5555).

If your iPod is stuck on an ’80s time warp like mine, this concert’s for you. Let’s name the tune in 80 seconds!

Unfinished business

“Daboy doesn’t like drama. Ayaw niyang umiiyak ako. There’s still a lot of unfinished business to be done before I can go back to work,” said Lorna Tolentino. Even at her worst moments, Ms Forever Flawless managed to put a brave front gracefully. LT was my mom’s fave pinch hitter in “Eye to Eye.” I remember Ma used to tell me that “walang kaarte-arte and ka-ere ere si LT sa systema niya.” She’ll soon be taking a pilgrimage to the Holy Land for a different kind of R&R—Remembering Rudy.

Personal: Belated belated greetings to Cris and Zhar Villanueva’s adorable daughter Zeena.

From Jie, congrats to Alvin de la Fuente for passing the nursing board exams. Where’s the blowout?

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