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Scenes in the City
tanggapin when they retire.”
He says he even got a deaththreat
from one of Ronnie’s men who even said: “Alam namin kunsaan kanakatira.” Both he and Ronnie are now doing soaps with ABS-CBN.
What if they’d see each other and Ronnie confronts him? “Aba, e kung sasaktan niya ako, senior citizen na ako, magsusumbong ako sa anak kong si Luis,” he jokes. He’s actually turning 60 in September 2015 yet.
Is his daughter, Addie, also joining showbiz after modelling for Bench? “I told her that like her Kuya Luis,magtapos muna siya ng college and, after that, bahala na siyang mag-decide forherself.”
Edu is acting again in a teleserye, “Bridges,” where he plays the stepdad of Xian Lim. “Na-miss ko rinumarte,” he says. “Puro hosting kasi ako lately.”
He’s also slated to startshooting a new movie for Star Cinema, “Halik sa Hangin,” with JC de Vera, Gerald Anderson and Julia Montes.
Elmo trained hard for ‘More Than Words’
Elmo Magalona is understandably excited as his new show, “More than Words,” with and on and offcam sweetheart, Janine Gutierrez, starts airing tonight. They’re both praying this will be as big a hit as their past soap, “Villa Quintana.”“Siyempre nakaka-tense dahil this time, we’re on primetime na,” he says.
We notice in the trailer that he is seen shirtless in several scenes, displaying his buff physique. “I started in showbiz when I was 16, totoy na totoy pa ko noon. I’m now 20 and yes, nagbago ang body ko
due to workouts. I really trained hard for this and when our director, Andoy Ranay, asked me to remove my shirt, I agreed kasi pinaghirapan ko naman ito
with my training and strict diet without carbs and sugar.”
In “More than Words,” he plays the nerdy Janine’s dream boy, Hiro, who figures in an accident and is washed ashore without remembering who he is. Janine as Ikay takes care of him and without any memory of his past, he builds a new life with the help of Ikay and eventually falls for her.
Supporting them are Jaclyn Jose as Precy, the eccentric mom of Ikay; Gardo Versoza as Victor, Elmo’s ambitious stepdad; Yayo Aguila as Marissa, Hiro’s mom; Enzo Pineda as Nate, campus heartthrob; Step-hanie Sol as Belle, the queenbee and mean girl of Southville Academy; Mikoy Morales as Chester,Elmo’s stepbrother; and Rey PJ Abellana and Leni Santos as Emil and Rose, who take care of Elmo.
Derek’s appeal unaffected by scandal?
Derek Ramsay is still on top of the game in the Kapatid network.
While almost all Kapatid talents made an exodus to other networks, the hunk actor remains loyal to the network. Currently, he’s hosting the The Amazing Race Philippines for its Season 2 run.The reality show gives him the exposure. That Derek is still very much around.
The Kapatid actor has been bruised by the legal case filed against him by his estranged wife Mary Cristine Jolly. Kahit nabunyag na ang kanyang sikreto, mukhang hindi naman naapektuhan ang takbo ng kanyang career. Komento ng isa sa mga kasambahay ko, mas lumakas pa raw ang sex appeal nito sa mga kababaihan.
Crown argues ex-pastor Philip Grandine drowned his pregnant wife
TORONTO - Disguised in a banana smoothie was a sedative — not enough for an overdose, but enough to make Anna Karissa Grandine drowsy and confused, the Crown told the jury in closing arguments on the final day of the first-degree murder trial.
That’s when Philip Grandine carried or coaxed his 20-weeks pregnant wife, to the bathtub, Crown prosecutor Donna Kellway said.
The former pastor and retirement home nurse may have gently held her head under the water until she drowned, or let gravity pull her non- resistant body below the surface, Kellway said.
Either way her death on Oct. 17, 2011 “was no accident and no suicide.”
Grandine, she said, acted with “intent to kill” the 29-year-old woman who stood in the way of him being with
his mistress, nanny Eileen Florentino (PICTURE).
The defence has argued that Karissa, as she was known, took the sedatives herself, defence has argued amid
a depression caused by husband’s ongoing affair with a woman who was a member of his parish. Grandine had recently resigned as a pastor because of the affair.
In his closing arguments, defence attorney Amit Thakore reminded the jury of testimony heard earlier in the trial — that Grandine was devastated by her husband’s affair with one of his parishioners and by his use of pornography.
The court also heard earlier, from the Crown, that a list of searches from the couple’s computer included questions about lethal doses of the sedatives Adivan and Lorazepam.
The Crown alleges Philip Grandine, a former pastor, drugged and drowned his wife in their bathtub, after researching the drugs online. He was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after investigators found Lorazepam in her blood.
But Thakore told jury members they should consider the possibility that Karissa Grandine committed suicide or slipped, bumped her head and fell in the tub.
He implied she looked up the drugs — because her Facebook page had been checked 25 seconds earlier.
“There’s two people in the house
... using Facebook. Mrs. Grandine is doing the searches for fatal amounts of Lorazepam,”Thakore said.
The Crown claims that, as the administrator of a nursing home, Philip Grandine had access to Lorazepam.
But his lawyer reminded the jury there were no reports of any sedatives missing.
Friends of Sena Flores (FOURTH FROM LEFT) enjoy FCT’S Ms. Paraluman 2014 pageant.
At the Ms. Paraluman 2014 Pageant
Filipino Centre Toronto President Linda Javier (SECOND FROM LEFT) pose with friends at the centre’s fundraising apgeant night at Rembrandt.
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