Riza Santos

Riza Raquel Santos (born August 30, 1986) is a Canadian beauty queen of Filipino ancestry. Aside from being a beauty titlist, she is also being trained as a soldier in Canada. Her military career, according to her, had been influenced by her grandparents. She competed in the Miss Earth 2006 pageant where she bagged the Miss Photogenic award.

In her Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition 2 stint, she played for Bantay Bata, ABS-CBN Foundation's charitable institution. On Day 84, she was proclaimed the second placer of Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition 2.

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Megan Young

Megan Young (born Megan Lynne Young on February 27, 1990 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA) is a Filipina-American actress who is a member of Star Magic Batch 15. She is best known for being a former celebrity housemate on Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition 2 (but the third one to be eliminated). Megan is a alumnus of ABS-CBN's rival television station GMA's StarStruck and also a member of GMA Artist Center. She's the first StarStruck alumni to transfer to another network.

Megan Young is an actress and former GMA Network talent. She is the first StarStruck star ever to transfer to GMA's rival station, ABS-CBN, in a bid to change her image from a villain to a "nice girl." She currently plays Marcella in I Love Betty La Fea.

Megan Young first big showbiz break was with the talent reality search Star Struck. With her statuesque height and Fil-Am features, Megan perfectly fits the mestiza master mold that the show contestants seem to have jumped out from. Her talent and personality landed her in the show top six. But despite her good finish, Megan acting career never took off. Projects came to her in trickles. Often she would be typecast as the antagonist, the bitch, the bad girl --- something she found unpleasant. She soon moved to ABS-CBN following her sister, Lauren, who was part of Star Magic Star Circle 13.

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Jodi Santa Maria

Jodi Chrissie Santamaria-Lacson, sometimes credited as Jodi Sta. Maria, Jodie Santamaria or Jodi Santa Maria (born June 16, 1982), is a Filipina actress. She is a member of cof homegrown talents named Star Magic. She is a Star Magic Batch 7 alumni.

She is married to Panfilo "Pampi" Lacson Jr., who is the son of Philippine politician Panfilo Lacson. Together, they have a son named Thirdy.

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Aubrey Miles

Aubrey Miles (born Aubrey Sandel, March 16, 1982 in Caloocan, Philippines) is a TV host, singer and actress in the Philippines.
Miles is the third among the four kids of Victorino Sandel and Maria Perla Santos. She finished her secondary education at La Consolacion Academy in Caloocan City. She was a college sophomore student at the University of Santo Thomas Conservatory of Music, major in voice and minor in piano when talent scout Dondon Monteverde discovered and signed her up to an eight-film, two-year contract with Regal Films.

At 16, Miles was already appearing in GMA sitcoms like Beh Bote Nga and German Moreno's Best Friends. In between showbiz assignments, she joined beauty contests such as Miss Ever Gotesco, Miss Caloocan, Miss Lions Club, and Miss Global Philippines in which her sister ended up being the first runner-up and she won fourth runner-up. She never won a title but copped runner-up positions that earned her enough money to support her family and herself.

As Miles was nearing the age of 20, she decided to do something new. Dondon Monteverde offered her to play a prostitute from the provinces in the softcore movie Prosti (abbreviation for "prostitute"). After Prosti became successful in the box office, making P29 million. To date, Prosti is still the highest grossing movie of her career. This successful debut led to other movie offers, all of which did not enjoy the same level of success as Prosti. She was offered endorsement contracts from different companies, such as Bench (a clothing company in the Philippines).

After Prosti, Miles starred in the movie Xerex (based on a sex confessional column in a Philippine tabloid), where she played three different roles. Xerex was a commercial disaster as a result of two movies: Viva Films' Sex Drive and 20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United.

Originally scheduled for an April 2, 2003 opening date, Regal Films did not want to risk playing Xerex with Sex Drive knowing that Aubrey's rival Maui Taylor and fellow Viva hot babe Katya Santos are a formidable box-office attraction together. Realizing that there's no chance of winning against Viva's sexy movie, Regal delayed Xerex's opening by 28 days.

Unfortunately again for Regal and Aubrey Miles, Xerex opened on the same April 30, 2003 date as Hollywood's X2 made its much-awaited debut. Adding insult to injury, Star Cinema released its much-awaited romantic comedy Til There Was You (Judy Ann Santos and Piolo Pascual) that same day as well. Because Regal spent so much money and could not afford another delay, they went ahead in releasing Xerex. As a wide majority of filmgoers watched X2 and Til There Was You, Xerex flopped in the box-office making only P13.3 million on a budget of P24 million. Even with home videos accounted for, Regal lost a total of P18.1 million with Xerex. Since Xerex, Miles' movie career and ability to attract moviegoers got damaged and never recovered.
Miles' next movie, Sanib, further damaged her acting career as it grossed only 8.2 million PhP in the box office despite its P25 million budget and massive marketing by Regal Films. It was universally panned by film critics as a poor man's copycat of The Exorcist. Not surprisingly, Miles was perceived as a candidate for "2003's Worst Actress" due to her badly-criticized performance in this movie. She played a young lady who gets possessed by demons, very much like Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

Targeting multi-media exposure, Miles' manager secured for her a contract with television network ABS-CBN. She appeared in Masayang Tanghali Bayan (a daily noontime show) and in several sitcoms of ABS-CBN. As part of her marketing strategy to appeal to a wider audience, she began appearing in non-sexy roles in movies like Sanib, A Beautiful Life and Gagamboy, Regal Film's entry to the 2003 Metro Manila Film Festival, where she appeared as actor Vhong Navarro's love interest.

Aubrey Miles has appeared on the cover of FHM Philippines twice. She was a cover-girl of FHM in September 2002 at the start of her career, and was completely covered in gold-paint for the magazines' 75th issue in August 2004. Aubrey was also one of three FHM Calendar Girls along with Maui Taylor and Diana Zubiri for the FHM 2003 calendar.

Miles joined as a contestant in The Amazing Race Asia 1 where she teamed-up with her real-life best friend, Jacqueline Yu. They were eliminated in the 3rd leg of the race.

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Assunta De Rossi

Maria Assunta Schiavone De Rossi, better known by her screen name Assunta De Rossi (born February 19, 1983 in Lecce, Italy), is an Italian–Filipino actress. Her sister Alessandra De Rossi is also an actress. Both sisters have won the Best Actress award at the Metro Manila Film Festival. Assunta is currently married to Jules Ledesma.

She is supposed to be originally offered the role of Sunshine Dizon on the upcoming suspense–thriller movie titled Dagaw.

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Alessandra De Rossi

Alessandra Schiavone De Rossi, better known by her stage name Alessandra De Rossi (born on July 19, 1984 in England, United Kingdom), is an award-winning Italian-Filipino actress. She is the younger sister of actress Assunta De Rossi.
At the age of 16, Alessandra took home the coveted acting award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Azucena at the FAMAS Awards.

She was once overshadowed by the showbiz success of her older sister, Assunta. However, her genuine ability to act allowed her to eventually outshine the former. Her career took off after exceptional portrayals in different drama films including the critically acclaimed Mga Munting Tining (Small Voices) and Homecoming, where she portrayed a Canadian-based domestic worker who visited her home in a rural town in the Philippines, bringing with her the deadly disease SARS which she spreads among the residents.

Alessandra won the part of Valentina, the villainess of the popular comic turned fantaserye (fantasy TV series), Darna, which aired on GMA network in 2005. The show fared exceptionally well in the ratings, earning her additional attention for her show stealing performance.

De Rossi’s latest offering was the Singaporean-based horror film The Maid where she played the lead role of Rosa, a housemaid in Singapore. The film was a box office hit both locally and in neighbouring Asian countries.

Presently, she moved back to ABS-CBN for special role for I Love Betty La Fea.

She is a Star Magic Batch 6 alumni.

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Rica Peralejo

Rica Peralejo (born Regina Carla Bautista Peralejo on March 7, 1981) is a Filipina actress, singer, and television host. She is a member of ABS-CBN's circle of homegrown talents collectively known as Star Magic.

Peralejo began her career in show business as a child actress in the ABS-CBN children's variety show Ang TV. She eventually moved on to teen-oriented programs such as T.G.I.S. and Gimik, and take note she was the only actress in her time to allow to do that, since T.G.I.S. is with GMA Network and Gimik is with ABS CBN . She was paired with Red Sternberg in T.G.I.S. and with Dominic Ochoa in Gimik. She also worked with Agot Isidro in the horror series Oka Tokat. In her early teleseryes, She was paired with Diether Ocampo in Mula Sa Puso with Rico Yan and Claudine Barretto as the main stars and paired with Bojo Molina in the Marinella afternoon drama series that topbills Camille Prats and Shaina Magdayao. She also starred in the teleseryes Mangarap Ka and Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay. At present she is busy hosting her morning show Umagang Kay Ganda with Edu Manzano, Bernadette Sembrano and Donita Rose as her co-hosts. She is currently studying at the Ateneo de Manila University majoring in Creative Writing.

Growing into adulthood, Peralejo began acting in movies and through the years she has gained popularity by periodically shifting into different movie genres. She starred in comedies such as Banyo Queen (with rapper Andrew E.) and action movies like Ex-Con. This was followed by her roles in "sexy" movies such as Balahibong Pusa, earning her the title "Bold Queen".More recently, Peralejo became well-known for her roles in horror movies such as Malikmata and it was because of these movies that the Philippine media alternately dubbed her "Horror Queen" and "Scream Queen". She is reportedly filming a new horror movie titled Matakot Ka Sa Karma which will be shown at the 2006 Metro Manila Film Festival.

Between making movies, Peralejo also appeared in television programs such as the sitcom Ok Fine Whatever and the weekly variety program ASAP. She was recently in the drama series Sa Piling Mo, which is currently available on video, and Pangarap na Bituin.

Ever the performer, Peralejo also found time for her singing career. In the late 1990s she released the album Ikaw Pa Rin At Ako.which produced the hit single "Fallin'".She was also featured on the soundtrack of the movie Sa Huling Paghihintay, where she sang three songs: "Maghihintay Ako", "Can We Just Stop And Talk A While" and "Bakit Mahal Kita".Her current album is titled Bollywood Fever.

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Francine Prieto

Francine Prieto born Anna Marie Falcon (September 19, 1982) is a model and actress from the Philippines.

She began her career in the entertainment industry as a member of That's Entertainment. She had done sexy roles and she's a Seiko Films contract star along with Diana Zubiri. But her biggest break came when she played Queen Avria in Etheria, the second book of Encantadia. She has done in her comic roles in Bubble Gang where she's one of the current members. She recently played Kuran, a villainess in Kamandag. As of now, she is not only a sexy star but a great actress with the likes of Diana Zubiri, Rufa Mae Quinto and among others. She plays a supporting role Aureana in Codename: Asero.

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Alyssa Alano

Alyssa Alano is a Filipina film and TV actress. She was a former member of the popular Viva Hotbabes franchise. Though she grew up in Tarlac, Alano was actually born Geramie Daud in Zamboanga City on 11 August 1987, to a Filipina mother and an Australian father (who later abandoned her and her mother).
She has been a contract artist under the GMA Network eversince she entered show business, and continues to do so.
Alyssa was entangled in an internet meme in the Summer of June 2006.

Alano performed the song Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer on an episode of GMA Network's late night show Master Showman Presents. Alano sang the English song in a heartfelt, cheerful way, but with a heavy Tagalog accent, which was then mocked in a mondegreened video posted on YouTube posted by "calimanok". The video contains subtitles, containing such mondegreens as "Keys Me". Toward the end of the month, the clip had been viewed over 500,000 times.

Apparently, Alano had no idea that her YouTube video became an Internet meme until it was shown to her during an interview on the show Chika Minute.

Interestingly, Alano has been a good sport in her reactions to the sudden popularity of her singing video, even publicly thanking the anonymous prankster who created the clip, saying it got her a lot of attention/publicity, and that it has truly helped her showbiz career take off.[1] She has since appeared in a few TV talk shows to jokingly re-sing "Keys Me" along with the clip's audio track.

Alano's pranksters have also broadcast another karaoke-style video of her singing "Whenever, Wherever" by Shakira and "Crush" by Jennifer Paige.

In 2007, Alano got a break on television, portraying the role of Mary in an adaptation of the action series Lupin.

Within the same year, she accepted the role of a monkey-woman in the hit fantasy series titled Kamandag alongside Benjie Parras who was the King of the Monkey-People.

In 2008, Alano is played the role of Maan in the afternoon drama Una Kang Naging Akin top-billed by Angelika dela Cruz and Maxene Magalona. She includes this project as her biggest break in television even though she was not the main character in the series.

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Karel Marquez

Karla Ysabel Marquez Santos-Go (born December 21, 1986), known as Karel Marquez is a Filipino actress, model, singer, and TV host who currently signed under GMA Network. Before joining Kapuso Network, she was part of ABS-CBN Talent Management & Development Center (known as Star Magic). She is a Star Magic Batch 10 alumni.

Marquez started as VJ in Myx, a subsidiary of ABS CBN, in 2003. She was transferred to ABS CBN's rival network, GMA Network, despite being a VJ in Myx as of 2007. She was a member of the cast of GMA's afternoon TV drama Pati Ba Pintig Ng Puso?, where she starred opposite Yasmien Kurdi, JC de Vera, and Chynna Ortaleza among others. She is also a mainstay in GMA's Sunday variety program SOP Rules, where she sings with Kyla, Karylle, Jennylyn Mercado, and Yasmien Kurdi. She also presently hosts a segment of GMA's gag show Bitoy's Funniest Videos entitled "Just 4 Kikays". She has a role in an upcoming GMA primetime, Zaido, as Lyka. She has been one half of the covergirls in the November 2006 edition of FHM Philippines, along with Amanda Griffin. Karel, along with Drew Arellano, is also a co-host in Coca Cola: Ride To Fame, a reality talent show after SOP Rules. She has given a role in an upcoming GMA primetime, Zaido. She's also a radio DJ.

She's a daughter of Pinky Marquez, who is also an actress, model and singer and Dr. Eduardo Santos. She has also two siblings.

In early 2008 the GMA Network offer her about two big project. She will be the one to lead as an antagonist in the upcoming Sine Novela installment titled Saan Darating Ang Umaga.

And Later after making the said remake series she will have a followed project who offered again with GMA Network titled Yakapin Ang Sandali to be directed by Joe Lamangan. In this series she will be the one to lead the role as Liza Montenegro a successfully business who turned down because of her best friend Sharmien Santos which portrayed by Bianca King. This is her big break in the television.

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