Mga halu-halong hula-hula 2008
Year 2007 has bidden goodbye but, as I said, the Year of the Rat doesn’t take over from the Year of the Pig until the Chinese New Year first week of February.
But as tradition dictates, Funfare is dishing out its predictions for 2008.
Yes, I know, I know, I know! I now sound like a broken record because year in and year out, everytime I put out Funfare’s annual halu-halong hula-hula, I always remind the readers that, like the madames in showbiz — Madame Uling, Madame Dolorosa, Madame Labanos, et al — all I have to do to predict what’s in store for showbiz denizens in the next 12 months is — you guessed it! — review my stack of movie magazines, rewind my videotapes of talk shows (Startalk, Showbiz Central, Entertainment...Live!, The Buzz and even The Ricky Lo Exclusives which airs Wednesday nights, 8:30 to 9:30 on Q-11, with Nicolas Cage of National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Gretchen Barretto and Marian Rivera as this week’s headliners) and, voila!!! (in case you haven’t noticed, I, like a broken record, always use this exclamatory word in this New Year piece), my halu-halong hula-hula for the year is complete.
Here are what I see in my own murky Crystal Bola-Bola and my wornout Tarat Cards:
The Blind Items
• A heavyweight newscaster/TV-host will resign from a big network and make an earth-shaking exposé.
• Toward the middle of the year, a young actress will regret having made what people around her called “a good career move.”
• Three showbiz couples will break up, one due to the wife’s infidelity and the two due to, ehem, “third parties.”
• A showbiz-oriented talk show will fold up. (Oh, my God, which one!?!)
• There will be a big shake-up in the news and public affairs department of a network — as more heads will roll. (Whose heads? My Crystal Bola-Bola and Tarat Cards didn’t specify.)
• A popular movie-TV actress will make shocking revelations about her actor-boyfriend who is not as santo-santito as he seems to be.
• Another showbiz couple will migrate. (After you, Dingdong Avanzado and Jessa Zaragoza who are now settled in
• A young actress will get pregnant out of wedlock but she won’t marry the “culprit” (her actor-boyfriend) yet.
• More scandals (not as horrible as those that happened in 2007) will rock the game shows. As usual, the senators and the congressmen will try to get media mileage by, ho-hum, threatening to initiate a “probe.”
• A young actress will surprise everybody by announcing that she’s getting married to her non-showbiz boyfriend.
• An actor-politician will continue to be hounded by intrigue but he and his wife and children will, as usual, survive it.
• A showbiz stage mother and her actress-daughter will wage an ugly word war against each other on — where else! — national television.
• A sweet, young singer-actress might rebel against her over-strict parents.
• Unless he changes his wanton ways (with money and, because he has the illusion that he’s guapito, with women), a sports star will find himself enmeshed in more controversies which might be too much for him to handle, thus putting his family life at risk.
• A talent manager and her alaga will part ways under unpleasant circumstances.
• A young actor will be arrested for cracking a bomb joke at an airport.
The Wide-Awake Items
• Having reached the point of no return and no looking back, Ruffa Gutierrez and Yilmaz Bektas will find new loves, she a distinguished non-showbiz gentleman (also a survivor of an unhappy marriage) and he, an international beauty title-holder.
• Sorry, but no wedding bells for: Korina Sanchez and Sen. Mar Roxas, Jolina Magdangal and Bebong Muñoz, Vic Sotto and Pia Guanio, Judy Ann Santos and Ryan Agoncillo, Troy Montero and Aubrey Miles, Iza Calzado and Jerry Garcia, Pops Fernandez and Jomari Yllana, Martin Nievera and Katrina Ojeda, John Estrada and Priscilla Mereilles, and Dr. Vicki Belo and Dr. Hayden Kho.
• But Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez are seriously planning to march down the aisle (with the legal impediments expected to be ironed out this year).
• Marian Rivera’s star will shine even brighter and bigger. It’s good karma for her because, as she has been saying, “I never forget to thank the people who helped me get to where I am now, starting with Mr. Tony Tuviera who discovered me.”
• Janno Gibbs and Bing Loyzaga will finally let bygones be bygones and start life anew — together! But first, Bing will make Janno promise, hand on the Bible, to stop being a womanizer.
• Gladys Guevarra will have a painful collision with “reality.”
• Old habits will continue to dog Snooky Serna but if she tries hard enough, she will finally shake off her pagong (turtle) tag.
• Aiko Melendez will admit that she’s going steady with Patrick Meneses (the bachelor vice mayor of Bulacan, Bulacan), never mind if the annulment case between her and husband Martin Jickain is pending.
• Daisy Romualdez and prodigal daughter Danita Paner will have a tearful reconciliation in the glare of TV spotlight. All’s well that ends well.
• Toni Gonzaga will start hinting at joining politics (initially by running for mayor of Taytay, Rizal, in 2010?). She and boyfriend, TV director Paul Soriano, (son of Jeric Soriano, the son of Nestor de Villa), might end up being just “good friends.”
• The popularity of game shows will wane; Koreanovelas will not be as popular; and reality-TV like Pinoy Big Brother will have less and less followers because they have nothing new to offer.
• The network war between GMA and ABS-CBN will get worse before it gets better, as talents merrily jump ober da bakod between the two stations.
• Something “big” is in store for ABS-CBN bigwig Charo Santos-Concio.
• Indie/digital films will continue to win awards both here and in international film festivals. Meanwhile, as in 2007, award-giving bodies might not hold the usual grand palabas due to, hu-hu-hu, lack of funds.
• Despite rumors to the contrary, the Dingdong Dantes-Karylle romance will even grow stronger. But marriage is farthest from their minds. But, sorry na lang Jennylyn Mercado and Patrick Garcia will have no choice but to part ways.
• After all the bangayan and singhalan, Dennis Trillo and Carlene Aguilar will kiss and make up for the sake of Calix Andrea, their love son (not daughter as mentioned in last Sunday’s yearender).
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