MANILA, Philippines?Valerie Concepcion has no regrets about having a love child, Fiona, at 16.

?It changed my outlook in life,? she says. ?What hurts me is when people brand me as malandi just because I got preggy at a young age. I was blindly in love, that?s why I gave my heart and soul ... ?

She no longer has any contact with the father of Fiona. ?Someday, I?d want her also to meet her dad but for now ?di naman niya hinahanap. She doesn?t feel na may kulang kasi kumpleto naman ang love that my parents and I show her.?

Isn?t she ready to find a second dad for Fiona? ?I miss the feeling of being crazy in love but I don?t want to force it,? she replies. ?Di pa talaga tumitibok uli ang puso ko the same way it did when I fell for Fiona?s dad.?

She admits dating cager Dondon Hontiveros. ?Don and I are not on,? she clarifies, ?but we?re getting there siguro. Takot lang ako kasi payo ni Angel Locsin ?wag daw ako ma-in love sa basketball player.?

Having a former PBA player as an ex-husband, I chide Val. ?Oh yeah! Been there, felt that!?

Valerie?s heart has been dribbled once. What it needs now is the winning dunk shot.

Celebrity trivia

Due to insistent readers? clamor, here?s more trivia about celebs. Little things, big stars:

? Claudine Barretto must always have lip gloss on because she dreads remembering the time her lips got severely chapped when she accidentally hit an open freezer.

? Vilma Santos always holds a hankie over a mic for fear that she might get electric shock again.

? If there?s one thing Regine Velasquez hates, it?s a sound system or an instrument that causes feedback when she?s ready to do her number.

Favorite song

Katrina Halili?s ex-BF Kris Lawrence would rather not confront Hayden Kho about the video sex scandal. ?I opted to be the bigger man,? he says.

?Besides I don?t think it?s worth my time and attention.?

He and Katrina watched the infamous ?Careless Whisper? dance video together. What an uncanny coincidence that the first single of his new album is the same song that Kat and Hayden dirty-danced to.

Did that have a good or bad effect on his album?s sales? ?Both positive and negative,? he quips. ?I just want to clarify na nagkataon lang na ?Careless Whisper? din ang isa sa mga kanta ko. Matagal nang alam ni Kat na it?s one of my fave songs. My album had long been recorded before the scandal broke out.

Will he take Kat back especially now that she needs a knight in shining armor? ?I really don?t know what to say,? he says. ?But Kat knows I?ll always be here to support her.?

Same girl, same song, different feeling.

Thanks to Bistek

Princess Velasco, the ex-GF of Herbert ?Bistek? del Rosario and who had a tryst with his best friend Hayden Kho, was a guest on my Viva Cinema Channel daily show ?Stop, Talk & Listen.?

She requested not to be asked about the issue that Bistek and Hayden fought because of her, which supposedly led to the sex video leakage. Princess just wanted to promote her acoustic album which includes a thank you message to Bistek and his family ? though she claims that they have split up.

Is she really a princess without a prince?

Guess list

? A singer/actor is super jealous of the budding friendship between two matinee idols. ?Nagdadabog si singer ?pag nasa backstage sila ni Matinee Idol 1. Di siya natutuwa na close na ngayon si MI 1 kay M1 2,? reveals a network insider. ?May lihim na relasyon kasi sila.? Troublesome threesome!

? An actress got enraged on the set of her show?s taping when she found out that the food served to her is the same kind as the crew?s. What she needs is food for thought about attitude management.

? An actress was spotted shopping at the men?s section of a department store. A colleague asked her for whom was she buying stuff for. Without batting an eyelash, she retorted that it was for her ex-BF, an actor. She has gotten him out of her system but not from her shopping list.

Scary movie

Catch the highly acclaimed scary movie ?Yanggaw? at the IndieSine of the Robinsons Galleria from July 29 to Aug. 4.

This Cinema One Original work by award-winning writer-director Richard Somes stars Ronnie Lazaro, Joel Torre and Tetchie Agbayani and newcomer Aleera Montalla.

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