Sa Pilipinas na ulit maglalagi si Bela Padilla.
Ipinaalam niya na magtatrabaho na ulit siya ng full-time sa Pilipinas.
Sa isang post ay binalikan niya ang mga naging karanasan sa London kung saan siya nanirahan noong 2021, sa kalagitnaan ng pandemya na halos nawalan ng trabaho ang maraming taga-showbiz.
Kalakip ang souvenir photos niya, ayon kay Bela : “A few seconds of my life in London since 2021. I am temporarily closing this chapter as I prepare to work full time again. and yes, I should have taken more pictures. I should have kissed and hugged my loved ones as much as I needed.
“Even if London will forever be the city that made me question everything I know in life, and forced me to square my shoulders, walk faster and be more vigilant…it will also always be the city that allowed me to smell flowers in spring and summer. And boy did I stop and smell the flowers constantly. They were the highlights of my day. On days when I forgot what I sounded like because I wasn’t talking to anybody, I had the flowers to remind me that God wanted me happy by giving me the most beautiful flowers just around my neighbourhood.
“London made me embrace the sad colours of autumn so hard that it would crush my soul every time I swept my garden before winter. Always weeping for the big tree I have, dying temporarily… as did I, with every sad day, quiet room entered and moment of complete confusion.
“Because of London, my instincts are now sharper. I stayed as healthy as I could while navigating my auto immune disorder. I very quickly learned to walk, ride my bike and eventually drive cars on the left side. The education I got from in and out of the classrooms, imbedded in me now.
“London also gave me the best friends that one could develop in adulthood, abroad. Our shared love for food, pints of Guinness or ciders, homesickness, overpriced takeaway and complains about the bitter cold of winter glued me to them in ways that sometimes saved my sanity.
“I had to figure out grief alone in my high ceiling bedroom when I got the call that my dad had passed away…so my first house in London will always be the one I hold dearest to me. The sadness ate me whole so I took a train to Scotland where, shockingly, the sun made me feel like I was in the Philippines for a few days. I will still have my house in London and maybe one day, I will call it home again.
“London is polite but shouts when you’re wrong. Beautiful but rough around the edges. Kind but has a darkness that could scare the tough...my friend, London.?”
Bukod sa It’s Showtime, may gagawing pelikula si Bela sa Rein Entertainment na siya ang magsusulat, bibida at magdidirek na rin.
Sa kasalukuyan ay naghahanap na ang team ng Rein at ni Bela ng mga Korean star na makasama niya sa pelikulang Friday the 14th pero iba raw ang approach nila rito kesa sa naunang pelikula ng aktres na Korean actor ang kanyang ka-partner, ang Ultimate Oppa, na si Yoo Min Gon.
Meron silang co-producer/partner sa pelikula na, malaking studio rin. “Bela will direct and act pero we are doing the creatives with her. Babae rin na magaling ‘yung nagsusulat, si Aica (writer ng Rein), then they’re doing creative supervision,” banggit ni former mayor and Rein Entertainment producer Lino Cayetano nang huli naming makausap.