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Ella Cruz
Gabriela Annjane "Ella" Umali Cruz (; born August 17, 1996) is a Filipino actress. She played the title character in the 2012 fantasy drama ''Aryana (TV series), Aryana''. Career She started her career on GMA Network in 2006, her first project being ''Majika''. Cruz moved to rival network, ABS-CBN in 2007. In 2009, she returned to GMA Network for ''Panday Kids'' and ''Ilumina (TV series), Ilumina''. She once again moved to ABS-CBN to appear in ''Maalaala Mo Kaya'', Cruz made another return to GMA Network in 2011, but later quickly moved to TV5 Network (company), TV5 for ''Inday Wanda'', but officially transferred to ABS-CBN and Star Magic as a contract artist. She was known for playing the teen character of Cristine Reyes in the TV series ''Dahil sa Pag-ibig (2012 TV series), Dahil sa Pag-ibig''. Cruz was often paired with Francis Magundayao who played the teen Piolo Pascual in the same TV series. She starred in ''Aryana'' as Philippines' first teen mermaid. She also played a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruz
Cruz is mostly a surname but is also used as a first name. It is of Iberian Peninsula, Iberian origin, first found in Castile (historical region), Castile, Spain, and later spread throughout the territories of the former Spanish Empire, Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In Spanish and Portuguese, the word means "cross", either the Christian cross or the figure of transecting lines or ways. For example, in the Philippines, the adopted Tagalog language, Tagalog word is rendered to "krus" in plain usage, but the Spanish spelling survives as a surname. The word "Cruz" (Spanish for "Cross"), as well as "Vera Cruz" ("True Cross") and "Santa Cruz" ("Holy Cross") are used as surnames and toponyms. Its origin as a surname particularly flourished after the Alhambra Decree of 1492 and the increasing activities of the Spanish Inquisition, when New Christian families with Crypto-Judaism, Crypto-Jewish, Morisco, Moorish, and/or mixed religious heritage converted to the state-enforced religion o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristine Reyes
Ara Cristine Pascual Klenk (born February 5, 1989) is a Filipino actress. She has been dubbed as the "Ultimate Star" by the local media for her acting prowess and popularity. Her films have collectively earned ₱1.05 billion, making her one of the highest grossing Filipino box office stars this century. Described as one of the "New Drama Royalty" of her generation, Reyes won the highly coveted "Box Office Queen" award with Anne Curtis at the 43rd GMMSF Box Office Entertainment Awards. She is also a four-time FAMAS Award nominee (including 3 Best Actress nods). In 2020, she won "Best Actress" at the 40th Oporto International Film Festival for her performance in the 2019 thriller 'Untrue'. Reyes is recognized as a '' sex symbol'', with FHM Philippines crowning her as 2009's sexiest woman in the world, winning against Marian Rivera, Katrina Halili & Angel Locsin. The same year, she was also listed as one of the Top 25 sexiest women of the decade. Reyes starred in numerous f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Marcos
Irene Romualdez Marcos-Araneta (; born Maria Victoria Irene Romualdez Marcos; September 16, 1960) is the third child of the late former president Ferdinand Marcos and former first lady Imelda Marcos. Her brother Bongbong Marcos is the current president of the Philippines. Marcos's presence is known as being "the quiet one" because among the Marcos siblings, she is the only one not holding public office. Her best-remembered role in her father's 21-year rule involved expensive events, such as her 1983 wedding to Gregorio "Greggy" Maria Araneta III which was said to cost US$10.3 million, and for her September 1985 party on the presidential yacht BRP ''Ang Pangulo'', whose lavishness caused a scandal when video coverage of it came out in the wake of the 1986 EDSA Revolution. She gained media attention after being tagged in the Panama Papers leak, and for triggering student protests after her attendance in various campus events. Controversies She, her mother and brother have m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ang Probinsyano
''FPJ's Ang Probinsyano'' (international title: ''Brothers''; ) is a Philippine television drama action series broadcast by ABS-CBN and Kapamilya Channel. The series is based on the 1996 Philippine film of the same title. Directed by Malu L. Sevilla, Avel E. Sunpongco and Toto Natividad, it stars Coco Martin in the title role. It aired on the network's Primetime Bida line up and worldwide on TFC from September 28, 2015 to August 12, 2022. It is the longest running drama series of ABS-CBN. Series overview ''Ang Probinsyano'' has five narrative arcs or "books" over 9 seasons. The Syndicate Arc ran from 2015 through 2017 spanning the first and second seasons. It focused on the cases Cardo encountered as a member of the CIDG. The Rebellion and Terrorism Arc contains the third and fourth seasons of the series and focused on Cardo's encounters with the "''Pulang Araw''" () as a member of the Special Action Force and undercover under the ''nom de guerre'' "''Agi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackpink
Blackpink (, stylized in all caps or as BLɅϽKPIИK) is a South Korean girl group formed by YG Entertainment. The group is composed of four members: Jisoo, Jennie (singer), Jennie, Rosé (singer), Rosé, and Lisa (rapper), Lisa. Regarded by various publications as the "biggest girl group in the world", they are recognized as a leading force in the Korean Wave and an ambassador of the "girl crush" concept in K-pop, which explores themes of Confidence, self-confidence and Women's empowerment, female empowerment. Blackpink debuted in August 2016 with their single album ''Square One (single album), Square One'', which featured "Whistle (Blackpink song), Whistle" and "Boombayah", their first number-one entries on South Korea's Circle Digital Chart and the US ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' World Digital Song Sales, World Digital Songs chart, respectively. It was followed by the single album ''Square Two'' in November, whose song "Playing with Fire (Blackpink song), Playing wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in Microblogging, short posts commonly known as "Tweet (social media), tweets" (officially "posts") and Like button, like other users' content. The platform also includes direct message, direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, a chatbot (Grok (chatbot), Grok), job search, and Spaces, a social audio feature. Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Community Notes feature. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams, and was launched in July of that year. Twitter grew quickly; by 2012 more than 100 million users produced 340 million daily tweets. Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twerk It Like Miley
"Twerk It Like Miley" (officially on cover as #TwerkItLikeMiley) is a song by American singer Brandon Beal featuring Danish singer Christopher. The song produced by Danish DJ Hedegaard was released on May 5, 2014 on Universal Music Denmark and Then We Take the World, reaching number one on Tracklisten, the official Danish Singles Chart on its first week of release staying there for just one week. The music video directed by Morten Winther also became popular with many references to Miley Cyrus. Background The title refers to American singer and her[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ipaglaban Mo!
''Ipaglaban Mo!'' (), also known as ''Kapag Nasa Katwiran, Ipaglaban Mo!'' or ''Kapag May Katwiran... Ipaglaban Mo!'', is a Philippine television public service and advocacy-driven legal drama anthology show broadcast by IBC, ABS-CBN, RPN, GMA News TV and Kapamilya Channel under ABS-CBN Studios, featuring dramatizations of actual cases brought and settled in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the Philippines. It aired from June 13, 1988 to 2000. The show returned from February 7, 2004 to 2005 and again from June 7, 2014 to July 5, 2020, replacing ''Sabado Specials: Shake, Rattle & Roll''. Final Hosts * Atty. Jose C. Sison * Joseph Peter "Jopet" S. Sison History 1988–2000: Original run ''Kapag nasa Katwiran, Ipaglaban Mo!'' was originally aired over IBC on June 13, 1988, and last aired on August 14, 1992. The program transferred to ABS-CBN on August 16, 1992, under Milliard Productions as a blocktime program under the title ''Kapag May Katwiran, Ipaglaban Mo!' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Truck HAPPinas
''Happy Truck HAPPinas'' is a Philippine television variety show broadcast by TV5. It aired from March 6 to May 1, 2016, replacing ''Movie Max 5'' and was replaced by ''Movie Max 5''. It is mainly presented by Ogie Alcasid, Janno Gibbs, Derek Ramsay, Tuesday Vargas, and Kim Idol. The show is airing every Sunday, 11:00am to 1:00pm on TV5, and it is the biggest project to date this year by the network and hosted by majority of the network's bunch of talents collectively known as "HappyPeeps". Competed against long-time rivals '' ASAP'' of ABS-CBN and '' Sunday PinaSaya'' of GMA Network, it serve as the replacement of former show, ''Happy Truck ng Bayan'', whom it was the brainchild project of former TV5's Entertainment Division Head, Wilma Galvante, until she resigned on her position. HTH also served as drive for advertisers and sponsors thru on-ground and below-the-line activation events and pluggings for the network's new shows. Hosts * Derek Ramsay * Tuesday Vargas *Kim I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagito
''Bagito'' (lit. ''Novice'') is a Philippine television drama teen series broadcast by ABS-CBN. The series is based of Wattpad series of the same title by Noreen Capili. Directed by Onat A. Diaz and Jojo A. Saguin, it stars Nash Aguas, Alexa Ilacad and Ella Cruz. It aired on the network's Primetime Bida line up and worldwide on TFC from November 17, 2014 to March 13, 2015, replacing '' Pure Love'' and was replaced by '' Inday Bote''. Plot Drew (Nash Aguas) is a teenager forced to face the responsibilities of being a young father because of his huge mistake. How will Drew's newly born child change his life and the lives of his loved ones? Is he ready to leave his childhood behind and face the difficulties of being a young father? How will Drew's parents help and guide him as he enters the "real world"? Summary Enjoying a teenage life, second year high school teen Andrew Medina (Nash Aguas) looks forward to maturity. After a one-night stand results in the unplanned pregnancy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aryana
In the Greco-Roman world, Ariana was a geographical term referring to a general area of land between Central Asia and the Indus River. Situated far to the east in the Achaemenid Empire, it covered a number of satrapies spanning what is today the entirety of Afghanistan, the easternmost parts of Iran, and the westernmost parts of Pakistan.The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2008 "Ariana" is Latinized from egion emonym The Greek word, in turn, is derived from the term () in Avestan. During several periods of history, Ariana was governed by the Persians, such as the Achaemenids, the Kushano-Sasanians, and the Sasanians. Other significant rulers were, namely, the Greeks and the Indians, such as the Macedonians, the Seleucids, the Mauryas, the Greco-Bactrians, the Indo-Greeks, the Indo-Scythians, and the Parthians (incl. the Kushans and the Indo-Parthians). A historic presence was also established in parts of Ariana by various Huna peoples and other Central A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
