MANILA, Philippines?Ogie Alcasid and Michael V?s wacky ?Loser Yaya and Naughty Angelina? tandem is too funny to be confined to TV. It comes to the big screen via ?Yaya and Angelina: The Spoiled Brat Movie,? which opens September 23. On TV, Yaya sticks it out with Angelina. In the movie, Yaya gets fed up and leaves her ?alaga?s? home.

What is Ogie?s fave yaya memory? ?I used to cry every time my yaya would go on her day-off. I was so attached to her.?

Does he spoil his kids to make up for lost time with them since they live in Australia? ?I think most parents spoil their kids. I am really guilty of that. But as they grow up, I try to instill in them the value of hard work.?

What?s his most unforgettable moment with Michael V? ?Every time I?m with him is memorable. But if I had to pick one, it would be the time I was a judge in a rap contest in ?Eat Bulaga? when Bitoy was starting out and he lost because I gave him a low score.?

The comic duo take their characters to heart, which is why in their show ?Hole in the Wall,? they talk a la Yaya and Angelina even off-cam. The ?spoiled brat? portrayal of Ogie will never rot.

Long distance affair

En route to Iloilo, I bumped into Katya Santos, who was Laoag-bound, at the airport. Her ?significant other? who comes from a prominent Ilocano clan is based there.

Long distance love affairs are never easy. But from the looks of it, Katya seems to have gotten used to the set-up.

Chin-Chin Gutierrez and I were on the same flight. I asked her if she has fully recovered from the double whammy of losing her mom and her home in one sweep. ?Slowly,? she said with a faint smile. Not even the worst of tragedies has diminished Chin-Chin?s beauty. Her mom named her after a colloquial term for ?Cheers!? No wonder she manages to celebrate life not only because, but also despite of.

Quotable quotes

I immensely enjoy doing one-on-one interviews with celebrities on my daily cable TV show, ?Stop, Talk & Listen? with Ogie Diaz and Maui Taylor (6 p.m. on Cignal TV?s Viva Cinema Channel with replays at 6 a.m. and 12 midnight). Here are some quotable quotes from my ?Chikadora? segment:

Ruffa Mae Quinto: ?I tried living on my own but I missed my family so I bought my lola?s house and we are all back under one roof. Feels good to be back to my roots so I can grow and bloom even more.?

Eugene Domingo: ?I want to be remembered as someone na masarap katrabaho.?

Gabby Concepcion: ?Sometimes I wish I never left the Philippines. But the warm welcome I got when I returned home after being out of the scene for so long tells me that all my sacrifices in the United States are worth it.?

Cesar Montano: ?Mahirap magkapamilya. Masalimuot man minsan, kailangan ito ng bawa?t lalaki para magka-saysay ang buhay niya.?

Marvin Agustin: ?Before it was always me, me, me in my relationships. I?ve reached a point where I have more to give of myself. I?m ready for my Miss Right. If she comes tomorrow, I?ll marry her right away.?

Ai Ai de las Alas: ?When I had my house built, there were days I didn?t know where I would get enough money to continue building it. Lakasan lang talaga ng loob. ?Di mo malalaman kung ano ang kaya mo hangga?t di mo i-dare ang sarili mo.?

Online TV show

Hot Mama Tin-Tin Bersola-Babao sent me an update on her online TV show:

?Hi Dolly,

?Happy to tell you that www.parentin.tv, the first Philippine online parenting show of which I am creative director and host since its launch last July, has garnered 470 thousand hits. My website is unique because: 1) It is an online parenting show; 2) It has interactive web content; and 3) It has onground events to touch base with my parenting community.

?This is my life?s vision, and now I am happily living it. I am so thankful because I succeeded in tapping the niche market?parents like me. And the success comes as part of the triple blessing in my life now: I am on my sixth month of pregnancy and we already found out that it is a boy this time!?

Tin leads the way in parenting through thick and thin, sick and sin.

Original interpreter

Faith Cuneta doesn?t mind that she wasn?t tapped to sing the theme of the Pinoy version of Stairway to Heaven, ?Pag-ibig Ko?y Pansinin? which happens to be her original song. ?Idol ko naman si Regine so OK lang na siya ang napiling kumanta. Besides nakakasawa if ako pa rin mag sing ng theme uli. Tama na ako yung kumanta ng theme sa original na Koreanovela.? That?s the right DIVAttitude.

?Darna? soars

GMA 7?s ?Darna? soars above all in nationwide TV ratings. Based on the National Urban Television Measurement data from AGB Nielsen Philippines from August 9-15, ?Darna? took the No. 1 spot with an average TV rating of 35.6 percent. Its pilot episode posted a TV rating of 44 percent in Mega Manila.

Since then, it has been posting more than 40 percent ratings in most days. Arriba Marian Rivera/Darna!

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