Younger Men, Older Women: A fad that's sweeping showbiz?

I can't help but feel for the daughter of this showbiz couple who have separated. My source tells me she saw this girl in the company of a lesbian who is studying in a prominent university.

"They were so sweet together," relates my spy. "It was obvious they were into a special relationship."

The girl obviously lacks the nurturing and guidance of her parents. But it's understandable because the couple has several other kids who I'm sure have their own set of problems. Or could it be that the parents are open-minded enough to accept such a relationship?

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Aaron Juntas, the child actor, is so fun to talk to. He's definitely not shy. I caught up with him during the shooting of the movie "Kapag Tumibok Ang Puso, Not Once But Twice," where Aaron plays the role of the son of Sen. Bong Revilla and Ms. International Precious Lara Quigaman.

Aaron's been in showbiz for just two years but he's saved up quite a fortune. Enough to buy him a brand-new Space Wagon, whose price tag won't dip below a million pesos. Besides that, he's got a hefty bank account, I am told.

Older actors should take a cue from Aaron. There are lots of them who spend their earnings like money was getting out of style! Most often they end up as bums or freeloaders.

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Having a bagets for a boyfriend seems to be in the in thing among the stars nowadays. By bagets I mean hunks who are 20 years old or thereabouts.

Take Ai Ai delas Alas for example. She's been going out with Wilfredo Hinahon Jr., a 22-year-old badminton instructor. Ai Ai doesn't want to reveal much about her boy toy but she swears it's true love, and that marriage is definitely on the horizon.

They've known each other for three years now. He is her badminton partner. They've been official on for only five months, but Ai Ai's kid already calls Wilfredo daddy. He's publicity-shy and doesn't want his name splashed in the newspapers. But she must love him so much because she's willing to enter into a pre-nuptial agreement with him.

Ai Ai is finishing up her parts in "Kapag Tumibok ang Puso" because she's due to leave for the US with Regine Velasquez, Ogie Alcasid and Rico Puno on May 9. The group is doing a series of concerts there.

Ai Ai also has a fine role in ABS-CBN's new series, "Bituing Walang Ningning," the TV adaptation of the movie that made Sharon Cuneta famous. Ai Ai will play the adopted mother of Sarah Geronimo, who is cast in Sharon's role. It will be the first time the comedian is doing drama and also the first time she'll be a regular in a soap opera. "Bituing Walang Ningning" starts airing May 15.

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Hot Babe Gwen Garci is not feeling too hot after revealing that she's not happy with her mother studio Viva. Gwen has even intimated in an interview while promoting the Striptease video with Myles Hernandez and Zara Lopez that she wants out because Viva has not been providing her with projects.

"I'm happy," Gwen told us, rather unconvincingly. She said she's not the one who started it.

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Even Hollywood is feeling the pinch from movie piracy. A report commission by the Motion Picture Association of America last week revealed that the big studios lost about $6 billion to illegally copied films last year. That's 75 percent more than they had thought.

Cinema ticket sales and DVD sales have fallen sharply, the report said. Here are some other worrying figures gleaned from the report:

• Piracy is costing the industry about $1.3 billion a year in the United States alone and more than $2 billion in Europe.

• Mexico is now the world's largest market for piracy, accounting for around $483 million in lost revenue to MPAA member studios in 2005.

• Movie pirates are most active in China, Russia, Britain, France, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Poland and Mexico.

The Philippines is still struggling to fight movie piracy, although there have been significant gains. Millions of pesos worth of pirated CDs, VCDs and DVDs have been seized and destroyed by the Optical Media Board, and the US has taken us off its list of countries with a high rate of intellectual property rights infringements.