Can you believe the recent publicity stunt of Willie Revillame and Joey de Leon in that Supreme Extreme Award night in the Fort?
Well I don't. That was just a whole lot of B.S. that's for sure. Great show guys great show. They really are great actors willing to put on a show.
When Willie tried to dismiss their onscreen, nationwide cat-fight on everyday noon programming (Wowowee vs. Eat Bulaga) as "lambingan" now that's just pure nonsense. Now plastered all over the news are headlines, "Joey and Willie Kiss and Make Up"
I bet both of their shows are doing just a little worse these days that stirring up some excitement became necessary for them to have people tuning in again. There's nothing like Filipino show business
Looks like Charice Pempengco isn't the only Filipino artist making waves abroad. Arnel Pineda, new Filipino vocalist for "Journey" got a standing ovation in a recent guest performance on the Ellen Degeneres show.
Hand-picked by Journey's lead guitarist and founding member Neal Schon (he's also a former member of Santana) after he found clips of Pineda on YouTube in 2007. He told GQ magazine that during his search, he deliberately tried to avoid a Steve Perry clone but after seeing clips of Arnel Pineda online, “The hair stood up on my arms,” Schon says. “I got up off the computer and told my girlfriend, ‘No way—this guy sounds too good. I don’t believe it.’," was what he told GQ.
If you saw the earlier episodes of American Idol, you would have seen him in his cape and feathered hat - Renaldo Lapuz has now been dubbed the next "William Hung." He sang to Simon Cowell during that audition, with the now famous - "You are my best friend."
I think it's pathetic and sort of embarrassing to be known as a goof ball but I guess he's making a lot of money now so no foul. It sure takes a lot to make money these days that's for sure.
He has done a commercial for AT&T as well, now if that isn't famous I don't know what is! Here is Renaldo Lapuz's AT&T commercial with his famous song "You are my best friend" all over again.
Although he was overaged (the age limit for contestants is 28), AI producers allowed Lapuz, in his feathered hat, quilted white suit and silver cape, to sing in front of the three judges. Producers obviously knew there was potential here for an offshoot success in the William Hung fashion anyway.
Prior to auditioning on AI, Lapuz worked as a janitor in a Wal-Mart store in Reno.
Lapuz elicited a back-handed compliment from judge Simon Cowell, who quipped: “I have a horrible feeling [that song] will be a hit record.”
There are various versions of his composition “We’re Brothers Forever” on the Net—techno, hip-hop, ballad, including a “politicians’ remix” that features former Presidents Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada, as well as President Macapagal-Arroyo, in a video montage.
Lapuz’s official website is holding a contest for the best remixed version of the song.
