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The apparent suicide of singer and actress Sulli this week has shone new light on the pressure faced by South Korea's young 'K-pop' stars. Tabloids and gossip television drive a culture of constant scrutiny.
South Korean media has devoted pages of newspapers and hours of lurid television coverage to the apparent suicide of pop star and actress Sulli on Monday, with anonymous posters using online message boards to exchange accusations of blame and repeat unsubstantiated rumors.
Some critics believe a media culture that is quick to build up the next rising star, and is equally fast to knock them down again, bears at least some responsibility for the death of 25-year-old Sulli and a number of other "idols" over the last decade.
"There have been a series of high-profile suicides in the last few years of people who are stars of the pop or television scenes. Their suicides have inevitably each time become topics of interest in and of themselves," said Emanuel Pastreich, director of the Seoul-based Asia Society. "It is almost as if these deaths are 'part of the show' and are reported as such."
Sulli, whose real name was Choi Jin-ri, first appeared as an actress at the age of 10 before making her debut as a K-pop singer with the all-girl group f(x) in 2009.
Throughout her career, Sulli's personal life provided fodder for the tabloids and she suspended all appearances in 2014 after becoming the target of malicious online rumors and allegations.
She later returned to acting and recently appeared on a television program to describe the abuse that she had been subject to from anonymous posters on web sites. That appearance only appears to have worsened the attacks.
Sulli is far from the first South Korean starlet to take their lives as a result of the pressure heaped upon them by the media and the voracious public, a situation that has only worsened with the advent and explosive growth of social media.
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- Bianca Manalo shared her first public photo with Senator Win Gatchalian on her social media
- Netizens reacted and commented their thoughts to the post
- Before officially going public, the two were spotted together for several times
After being spotted together several times for the past year, actress Bianca Manalo officially uploaded her first public photo with Senator Win Gatchalian on her Instagram account.
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- Filipina actress Sarah Lahbati is dubbed as the ‘dance goddess’ in ABS-CBN’s Sunday musical-variety show, ASAP
- The actress’s latest comeback performance on the show has recently gone viral on social media
- Her soon-to-be-husband, Richard Gutierrez, also performed with her on stage
Celebrity mom Sarah Lahbati has previously sizzled the online community with her fierce dance performance in the musical-variety show, ASAP.
KAMI learned that the actress, dubbed as the ‘dance goddess,’ recently stunned netizens with her comeback performance on the show together with her fiancé, Richard Gutierrez.
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The teaser is an absolute tease.
Shot on the set of Insatiable Season 2, now streaming on Netflix, it shows an elegant lady coming in, prompting two apparently gay staff to gasp in astonishment, “Who is she?” The lady introduces herself, “I am Gloria Reyes. Miss Philippines…Miss Universe!”
With that, Gloria Diaz as Gloria Reyes cements her “special participation” in the Netflix Original dark comedy about a girl named Patty (played by Debby Ryan) who’s bullied because she’s overweight, ignored and underestimated by people around her…until she shaped up and, in a sweet revenge, competes in a beauty pageant, thanks to the encouragement of a disgraced lawyer (played by Dallas Roberts).
The trio at the Manila House where Gloria’s daughter Isabelle ‘Belle’ Daza-Semblat hosted a bienvenida for the visiting actors, Debby in Patty Ang dress and Dallas in a Randy Ortiz charcoal-gray barong.
“I play not a judge but something like an adviser to Debby’s character,” Gloria told The STAR the other day during the promo for Insatiable graced by Debby and Dallas who came purposely for that. “My advice to Patty: No matter what your past is, no matter how you do it and where you come from, as long as you win, people will forget your past. Ganoon naman talaga sa mga pageant, di ba?”
How much did Gloria draw from her Miss U experience in fleshing out her role?
“Not that much, really,” she said, adding, “but I felt like a neophyte. Good thing Belle (her daughter Isabelle Daza-Semblat) was there coaching me, ‘Mom, you can do it; you’ve been doing it 100 times.’ I said, ‘Belle, I don’t know why but I am nervous. I might make a mistake.’ Belle said, ‘Don’t worry, don’t worry!’ So unlike here. When you work in your own turf, it feels different. Parang okey lang, happy-happy na.”
Debby and Dallas, and all those involved in the project, made Gloria feel at home.
“You will be surprised but Debby and Dallas look normal, they are not intense. They are very, very good. Still, you are working in a strange place, out of your comfort zone. All of a sudden, you are around people who don’t know you from Eve and whom you don’t know from Adam. The more they tried to make me feel at home, the more pressured I was.”
Happily, there was no, well, “breaking the ice.” Gloria noted that everybody was so professional and so welcoming.
“But you really have to be on your own, you just have to hold your own. You can pray all you want but at the end of the day, you’re just the one facing the camera. There was no room to make a mistake.”
Gloria went to Georgia (USA) to shoot initially for two days and went back to shoot more scenes.
She was busy with the ABS-CBN soap Los Bastardos when the offer came. Why her and not the Philippines’ three other Miss U titlists?
“I have no idea,” said Gloria who was 18 when she won in 1969. “They Vibered the offer to me. I guess they just have to get a beauty queen who has been around and, of course, who has experience with showbiz. My first reaction was, ‘Oh my God, I hope ABS-CBN will allow me.’ You know naman how strict ABS-CBN is. They won’t allow you to be absent. But they were okay and I was very happy.”
Monday night, Belle hosted a bienvenida dinner for Debby and Dallas at Manila House with Belle and Gloria’s special friends as other guests. Debby wore a gorgeous outfit designed by Patty Ang and Dallas, a charcoal gray piña barong by Randy Ortiz.
Asked to sum up her Insatiable experience, Gloria said, “Hmmm, very nice. I’m happy that I have so much experience locally and that helped. The bottom line is, it was all about lakasan ng loob, kapalan ng mukha.” And then she laughed.
Incidentally, the 2019 Miss Universe pageant is just around the corner (although no venue has been announced yet), so is a back-to-back win (between reigning Miss U Catriona Gray and the country’s bet Gazini Ganados) probable, a feat pulled so far by only one country (Venezuela, Dayana Mendoza/2008 and Stefania Fernandez/2009)?
“Let me think,” said Gloria who was a judge at the Bb. Pilipinas pageant topped by Gazini. “I will have to look hard at our candidate because, you know, nagbabago sila at nag-i-improve after the pageant. Yes, Gazini was my choice. I really like her. But you know, we are too ambitious. After Pia (Wurtzbach) and Catriona, we want more, we want something else.”
So what does she think is Gazini’s chance?
“50/50. Beauty contests are a rat race. Either you win or you lose. So, 50/50.”
And her (unsolicited) advice to Gazini?
“Like me in Netflix, lakasan ng loob at pakapalan ng mukha. Feel that you are a winner and make sure nobody gets in front of you…and make lots of friends.”
Source: https://www.philstar.com/
