Rustom Padilla to undergo sex change?

Carmina Villaroel won’t object if ex-hubby Rustom Padilla has a sex change. “That’s his choice,” the actress said in an interview with abs-cbnNEWS.com. “If he’s going to be happy, then go!” Rustom has openly declared that he is gay, and has even changed his name to Bebe Gandanghari.

 “As long as he doesn’t hurt anybody…It’s not a sin to have a sex change,” added Carmina, who has two kids by her long-time beau, Zoren Legazpi.

Even Bebe’s brother, action star Robin Padilla, seems to have long accepted Bebe’s coming out of the closet.

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Is Cristine Reyes the reason behind the supposed break-up of Rayver Cruz and Sarah Geronimo? I think the question should be: Are Rayver and Sarah really sweethearts?

The rumors continue to swirl about the Pop Star Princess’ relationship with the actor-dancer, especially after Rayver’s controversial conversation with Sarah’s dad Delfin.

The buzz was that Sarah’s daddy bluntly told Rayver to leave her daughter alone. Rayver denied that he was told off by the older Geronimo, but he refused to reveal what really transpired. “I don’t want to go into details because I have such a high respect for Sarah’s dad.

Whatever we talked about is just between the two of us,” Rayver explained in a TV interview.

So how did Cristine get into the picture? She and Rayver were said to have been extra close while they were in Boracay for “ASAP’s” summer special. Rayver said Cristine is a good friend because she is a barkada of Dyan, the girlfriend of Rayver’s brother.

Cristine herself denies there is something going on between her and Rayver. “That’s how showbiz is. A small thing becomes a big issue,” the sexy actress said. “But it doesn’t bother me anymore.”

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Megastar Sharon Cuneta has crossed party lines to endorse her good friend, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, who is running for reelection. Jinggoy is a candidate of Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino, while Sharon’s husband, Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, is the spokesman of the Liberal Party.

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The son of actor Michael Douglas, Cameron, faces at least 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to the charge of dealing in cocaine and methampethamine. Last week the actor wrote the federal judge who will sentence Cameron for leniency.

Michael said he was partly to blame for his son’s wild ways. “I love my son, but I'm not blind to his actions. ... I don't want to see him break,” he wrote.

 “I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father,” he continued.

Cameron is the son of Michael and first wife Diandra. As his dad tells it, he first got hooked on drugs when he was 13. He graduated to dealing in methampethamine in 2006 to support himself when his family cut off his income after he refused to go into rehab.

Michael, who won a best actor Oscar for “Wall Street,” admitted that he himself had been treated for alcohol abuse.

Also pleading for leniency for Cameron in their letters to the judge were his grandfather Kirk Douglas and stepmother Catherine Zeta-Jones.

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It pays to be brutally frank, as long as you’re Simon Cowell.

The nastiest among the four judges of “American Idol” collected 165 million English pounds over the past two years, according to the Londonpaper Sunday Times.

Half of Simon’s earnings came from his stints on television, the Times said. Last year alone, Cowell earned a cool 45 million pounds or $69 million.

Also making it to the Times’ annual list of Britain's richest were Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. McCartney was worth 475 million pounds, and Starr, 140 million pounds.