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Int'l shoe designer Jojo Bragais makes directorial debut

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Popular Filipino shoe designer Jojo Bragais is now a director! This after Bragais launched his directorial video project on LGBT in time for Father's Day celebration on June 21. The video clip was uploaded on the Facebook page of Bragais Shoes on June 19. "When I saw the finished video, I was really happy. Just like how I imagined the output to be. I've written the script and asked help from my good friends Ays Gonzales, Bessie Besana and Carissa Cielo Medved. I love to write. I am actually working on a BL series to be directed by Jill Urdaneta," said Bragais in an exclusive chat. Bragais, 28, is also into script writing. "I love to do new things. The idea of writing something and making it a reality - I just love it! That feeling is special." He learned script writing a few years ago from Moira Raymund Lee. Entitled "Papa's Boy," the 5-6 minute video clip is about a gay son (played by Johnsel Rotol) who dreams of joining pageants on the verge ...

Here's how you can help the victims of 'Usman'

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Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray called on the public on New Year's Day, to help the people of Albay in Bicol and other areas who were devastated by rains and landslides brought about by tropical depression Usman last Dec. 30. "There have been 57 reported deaths from landslides and floods caused by the recent tropical depression Usman that affected the region Dec. 30," said Gray on her first Instagram story for 2019 which was uploaded last Jan. 2. Gray is the first Bicolano to win the Miss Universe crown after she was crowned in Bangkok, Thailand last Dec. 17. She is now in New York City to fulfill her reign for one year and will begin her press tour in the US on Jan. 7. The Filipino-Australian beauty queen is expected to come home again for her official homecoming parade and first press conference as Miss Universe sometime in February. Gray said that "Aksyon Para sa Tiwi" is asking for donations for the typhoon victims who need food packs, water,...

Catriona Gray flies to NY to begin reign as Miss Universe

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Newly crowned Miss Universe Catriona Gray flew to New York City last Dec. 20 to start her reign for the most prestigious beauty pageant. This as Gray's Instagram followers have already reached more than three million just three days after she won the crown. "How I'm feeling now that there's 3MILLION of you on this journey!" says Gray on IG. Few days before the coronation night last Dec. 17, the number of her followers was only 800,000. Before she left the country, Gray would attend a private charity function in Metro Manila. As soon as she arrives in The Big Apple, Gray will do a series of press tours where she will make guest appearances on popular American radio and television shows and sit in on print interviews. Last Dec. 19, architect Richelle Singson-Michael, daughter of former Gov. Luis "Chavit" Singson, said that Gray is expected to return to Manila in January or February "for her victory parade and press conference." -  R...