Christian, Erik lend star power to Sharon Cuneta's new reality show

Blind item: This young actress is very controversial nowadays as she has picked up a fight with another young actress. The young actress who is perceived to be sweet and unassuming is actually a brat. She's not the type who'd do something if she doesn't feel like it, even if doing so would redound on her.

One writer witnessed how the young actress (she was still going steady then with a young actor) became "maldita" during an event held out of town. All other celebrities taking part in the event had gone out of their way to mingle with the crowd who had gathered for the event. But the young actress chose to bide her sweet time, choosing to exchange sweet nothings with her boyfriend.

When she finally decided to mingle with the crowd, she went around wearing dark eyeglasses. A fan who is obviously smitten with her, requested the young actress if she could remove her sunglasses.

"Miss, puwede mo ba tanggalin ang sunglasses mo para naman makita namin ang mga mata mo?" said the fan. But the young actress ignored her and did not bother to heed the request of the fan, who was shocked and saddened by the young actress' indifference.

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Former singing contestants Christian Bautista and Erik Santos will soon be joined with Megastar Sharon Cuneta in a weekly nationwide female singing contest search called "STAR POWER: Sharon's Search for the next Female Pop Superstar."

Christian said, "I hope to contribute fun and excitement to this new singing contest. Though I didn't win before, through hard work and faith I was able to reach my dreams. I want to be able to share those valuable experiences to the contestants too."

Erik, for his part, shared, " I hope to inspire the contestants and show them not only does it take talent, but lots of patience, hard work and humility, to make it in this business."

Christian and Erik traveled to Cebu from August 19 to 21to shoot footages for the preliminary auditions. Hundreds of female contestant wannabes lined up in ABS-CBN's Studio (Cebu) for the chance to audition before the searching panel of judges, Executive Producer Crissy Baluyut, ABS-CBN Regional Network Executive Roland Padriga and Singer/Talent Manager Carlo Orosa. Last weekend, the search continued on to Davao to screen more hopefuls from the Mindanao area.

In Cebu, many female contestants shared on-camera interesting personal stories about their lives, their struggles and triumphs while going through the process of auditions.

Christian and Erik were products of the famous 2003 reality search singing contest "Star In A Million" that launched their successful singing careers.

"STAR POWER: Sharon's Search for the next Female Pop Superstar" is scheduled to air this October.

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Talents under Noel Ferrer's management will engage themselves in a worthwhile activity to usher in the Christmas season. They will take part in Enchanted Kingdom's Storytelling Activity.

"This is a good way of sharing our time and skills to the public who have been very supportive of my talents and myself always," Noel said. "This partnership with Enchanted Kingdom war born out of Noel's wanting to have an advocacy for all his talents. "Reading, literacy and education is truly of prime value to us - so I enjoined and organized my talents to be prime movers of this noble cause."

Scheduled in the storytelling activity at Enchanted Kingdom are Bayani Agbayani (September 26), Marco Alcaraz (October 2), Joross Gamboa (October 8), Luis Alandy (October 17), Mr. Fu (Halloween Special with Edgar Allan Guzman, Rodjun Cruz with DJ Myke on October 31) and Paolo Bediones on December 12.

Moreover, film great Ms. Anita Linda will have a special storytelling session in celebration of Grandparents' Day on September 12, which will coincide with the launching of the special edition DVD of her award-winning film "Adela" to be released under Sony Philippines.

All the participating celebrities are entitled to bring their outreach beneficiaries to this storytelling activity and the event is open to the public. It starts at 4 p.m. at the Enchanted Kingdom Bandstand.

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High-rating primetime series on ABS-CBN "Agua Bendita" takes a bow this week as it splashes on to its exciting finale.

The show has served as Andi Eigenmann's launch pad to stardom. And now that her first major project has come to an end, Andi just can't help but be sad about its ending and be hopeful for the upcoming opportunities. "Nalulungkot po ako ng sobra. Halos araw-araw ko na rin po kasi kasama yung mga ibang cast and crew kaya alam ko mami-miss ko sila talaga. Pero masaya rin naman po dahil matatapos po ang Agua Bendita na todo pa rin ang suporta ng tao hanggang sa huli. Hindi sila bumitiw kaya nagpapasalamat po ako."

Andi further shared, "This is not naman po the end. I'm hopeful that more opportunities will come and that makakatrabaho ko pa po silang lahat sana sa future."

"Agua Bendita" has remained on top of its game for the past seven months. It is, indeed, a consistent high-rater and has never been toppled on its timeslot. In fact, it has become a household name. As it sets on to its final curtain call, deepest secrets will be revealed and twists will unfold.

Witness the concluding scenes of "Agua Bendita" this week, Monday to Friday.