Sunday bloody Sunday

Curtain-raisers:

● It’s going to be a Sunday bloody Sunday between GMA 7’s S-Files and ABS-CBN’s The Buzz — if and when, that is. I guess everybody will be glued to GMA’s Startalk this afternoon (2:30 to 4) for the co-host Lolit Solis’ interview with "Hope," the beauty-clinic receptionist said to have a 10-month affair with James Yap who’s expecting his first child with wife Kris Aquino in May. Warning: The episode may not be as shocking or sexually-explicit as you may be expecting. Here’s the rub: If S-Files also does a "Hope" feature, rival show The Buzz is, I heard, hitting back by showing the nude video of an S-Files host (unnamed so far) taken while the host was having cyber-sex with a stranger. That’s what I mean by Sunday bloody Sunday. Tsk, tsk, tsk! As expected, the "circus" in the political arena is a dud compared to the explosives on the showbiz scene.

● Meanwhile, could it be true that some candidates might try to ride on the notoriety, er, "15 minutes of fame" of the woman "Hope" and use her as a campaign crowd-drawer? If ever, we might be hearing campaign slogans such as "Hope of the Fatherland," "There’s Hope for Filipinos," "Don’t Lose Hope," "Where There’s Hope, There’s (name of candidate)" and "Hope You’re Ok."

● If you receive an MMS picture of Piolo Pascual and Sam Milby holding hands, don’t jump to conclusions and say, "Ah, so they are!" The photo, circulated from cell phone to cell phone, is a "doctored" one. Piolo and Sam were actually with other people (including Rica Peralejo with whom Piolo is actually holding hands) in the original picture but some over-imaginative idle mind — that’s it — "doctored" it and, voila, came up with a new copy showing only Piolo and Sam, with the background changed. It’s not the first time that Piolo has been victimized in this foul manner. But, as I’ve said, you can’t put a good man down.

PAMI accepts Angeli’s resignation sans regrets

In the recent edition of The Ricky Lo Exclusives (QTV 11, Wednesdays, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.), Angeli Pangilinan talked for the first — and last? — time about her case with PAMI (Professional Artists Managers, Inc.), with fellow PAMI member Lolit Solis rebutting her.

To clear the matter once and for all, here’s the official story, exclusively released to Funfare by PAMI:

Members of the Professional Artists Managers, Inc. had a meeting last Feb. 5, 2007 where its president, Ms. June Torrejon-Rufino informed the body at that meeting that PAMI member, Ms. Angeli Pangilinan-Valenciano, has expressed her desire to resign from PAMI as early as Nov. 16, 2006 through a text message saying "…Lolit (Solis) said I am the manager with the dirtiest tactics in the country in Mo Twister’s show. Sigh. I wanna quit na talaga. Ayoko na…". It was never formalized by Ms. Valenciano. Again, prior to the February 5th PAMI meeting, Ms. Valenciano expressed the same sentiment through a text message to Ms. Rufino adding that her resignation letter is ready and will be sent Friday of that week.

None of the members present during the PAMI meeting raised any objections to Ms. Valenciano’s resignation from PAMI, and thus, agreed to await the resignation letter of Ms. Valenciano, which she claimed was forthcoming, and shall in turn be formally accepted.

Since then, Ms. Valenciano, has been on a media blitz explaining her various reasons on why she is resigning from PAMI and again stating that her resignation letter will be sent to PAMI to formalize her decision.

PAMI has not responded to Ms. Valenciano’s issues as we deemed it appropriate to wait for Ms. Valenciano’s resignation letter as agreed during the last PAMI meeting.

It has been over two weeks of non-stop statements from Ms. Valenciano about her resignation from PAMI, on print media, television and text messages, but has not given PAMI the courtesy of sending her formal resignation letter.

PAMI has now taken the position of responding to Ms. Valenciano in the same manner, which is through the media.

1. PAMI is hereby accepting Ms. Angeli Pangilinan-Valenciano’s resignation.

2. PAMI is not responsible and should not be held liable for any of its members’ personal opinion whether expressed privately or publicly.

3. PAMI has no unresolved issues as claimed by Ms. Angeli Pangilinan-Valenciano.

4. PAMI does not take away valuable time of its members from their family or profession and has in fact been foregoing its scheduled monthly meetings to a maximum of six (6) official meetings a year, as evidenced by meeting records for the entire year of 2006.

PAMI would like to reiterate that Ms. Valenciano has not formally presented any of her issues with the organization and has chosen to present them through the media.

PAMI wishes Ms. Valenciano all the best in her future personal and professional endeavors and should she need the assistance of PAMI in the future, our organization shall remain, as it has always been, open to be of assistance to her and to any colleagues in the industry whether one is a member of PAMI or not.

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