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Riza Santos-Pretty Girl from Pinoy Big Brother

Riza Santos (born August 31, 1987) is a Canadian beauty queen of Filipino and Spanish 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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Jennylyn Mercado-Pretty Girl from Starstruck GMA7

Jennylyn Anne Pineda Mercado also known as Jennylyn Mercado (born May 15, 1987 in Las Piñas City, Metro Manila, Philippines) is a Filipina actress and singer. She was the winner of the first season of StarStruck, a reality-based talent search show of GMA Network in the Philippines.

She is the former girlfriend of co-StarStruck survivor Mark Herras. They started dating on April 29, 2004 and broke up on September 2005. She became pregnant by her ex-boyfriend Patrick Garcia, who, reportedly, has distanced himself upon learning about the pregnancy. On August 16, 2008, she gave birth, via Caesarian section (8-9 p.m.) to an 8.12 pound (3.68 kg) baby boy at St. Luke’s Hospital, Quezon City. Her child’s name is Alex Jazz “AJ” Mercado. [1][2][3]

Mercado’s life story was featured in the TV drama series Magpakailanman on October 14, 2004. She is now the official spokesperson of the Bata Foundation (Christian Mission Services), a non-governmental organization.

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Lindsay Lohan-Pretty Girl from Parent Trap

Lindsay Dee Lohan (pronounced /ˈlɪnzi ˈloʊən/;[2] born July 2, 1986)[1] is an American actress, model, and pop singer. Lohan started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine advertisements and television commercials. At 11, she made her motion picture debut in Disney’s 1998 remake of The Parent Trap.

Lohan rose to stardom between 2003 and 2005 with leading roles in the films Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded. She subsequently appeared in the independent movies A Prairie Home Companion and Bobby. Her career was interrupted in 2007 as two DUI incidents and three visits to rehabilitation facilities led to several lost movie deals. She guest starred in the TV series Ugly Betty in 2008 and began filming Machete in August 2009.

Lohan launched a second career in pop music in 2004 with the album Speak and followed up with A Little More Personal (Raw) in 2005. She is a favorite target of paparazzi photographers and her personal life has been a frequent subject of celebrity and tabloid journalism.

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Jessica Alba-Pretty Girl From Playboy Magazine 2006

Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981)[1] is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002).[2][3] Alba later appeared in various films including Honey (2003), Sin City (2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Into the Blue (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck both in 2007.[4][5]

Alba is considered a sex symbol and often generates media attention for her looks. She appears frequently on the “Hot 100″ section of Maxim and was voted number one on AskMen.com’s list of “99 Most Desirable Women” in 2006, as well as “Sexiest Woman in the World” by FHM in 2007.[6][7][8] The use of her image on the cover of the March 2006 Playboy sparked a lawsuit by her, which was later dropped.[9] She has also won various awards for her acting, including the Choice Actress Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress (TV), and a Golden Globe nomination for her lead role in the television series Dark Angel.[10] Her acting has also been criticized, as she has been nominated for numerous Razzie Awards throughout her career. Alba’s offscreen, personal life has been a frequent subject of media, celebrity, and tabloid journalism.

Alba was born in Pomona, California[1] to Catherine Alba (née Jensen) and Mark Alba. Her mother is of Danish and French Canadian descent. Her father is of Mexican American descent. Both of her paternal grandparents were born in California.[11][12] She has a younger brother, Joshua. Her father’s Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas before settling back in California when she was nine years old.[3][12] Alba described her family as being a “very conservative family—a traditional, Catholic, Latin American family” and herself as very liberal; she says she had described herself as a “feminist” as early as age five.[13]

Alba’s early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies. During childhood she suffered from collapsed lungs twice, she had pneumonia 4-5 times a year, a ruptured appendix, and had a tonsillar cyst.[14] Due to her illnesses Alba became isolated from other children at school because she was in the hospital so often due to her illnesses that no one knew her well enough to befriend her.[15] Alba has also had asthma since she was a child.[16] Alba has said that her family’s frequent moving also contributed to her isolation from her peers.[17] Alba has also acknowledged that she has suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder during her childhood.[18][19] Alba graduated from high school at age 16,[20] and she then subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company.[21]

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Pia Guanio-Pretty Girl From Eat Bulaga

Liana Pia Coronado Guanio, better known as Pia Guanio was born on October 24, 1973. She is currently a host of Eat Bulaga, 24 Oras & Showbiz Central. She transferred from ABS-CBN to the GMA Network last 2004.

Guanio began her career in entertainment as a lively traffic reporter for Jetti’s RoadWatch in 1999. Pia Guanio caught the attention of travelogue channel Lakbay TV and her career has been on the move ever since. She has been romantically linked in the past to her long-time boyfriend, Mike jacob. Currently, she is said to be engaged to variety show entertainer and actor Vic Sotto. [1]

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Eula Valdez-Pretty Girl From ABS-CBN

Eugenia Laura Valdez or Eula Valdez (born September 29, 1968) is a viteran Filipina actress who became known after playing the role of Amor Powers in Pangako sa ’Yo. She recently moved to GMA Network from ABS-CBN.[1] [2].

She was born in 1968-12-11. Has a 14 year old son (2009)with Ronnie Quizon and a 6 year old daugther (2009) She graduated from the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Arts and Letters. She is talented at singing and recently released her debut album Schizo.

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Assunta De Rossi (born February 19, 1983 in Lecce, Italy) is a Filipina 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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Nadine Samonte (born Nadine Burgos Eidloth on March 2, 1988 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany) is a Filipina-German actress. The daughter of a German father and a Filipina mother, she is an Avenger from the first season of StarStruck. She is lasted up to the Final 6 with Dion Ignacio, Yasmien Kurdi, Rainier Castillo, Mark Herras and Jennylyn Mercado. Nadine and Dion were the last contestants to be eliminated and the last avengers for the said season of StarStruck.

Shortly after the Final Judgment wherein Jennylyn and Mark won, Nadine and Dion were cast to the third season of Love to Love, a Sunday twin bill television program. She starred in the series Kissing Beauty with Angel Locsin, Dennis Trillo, Cogie Domingo, Karen delos Reyes and AJ Eigenmann. Mercado and Herras were also cast with the second half, Duets for Love, starring Jay-R and Toni Gonzaga. After the season ended, she was also cast as the lead star of the new afternoon daily soap Ikaw sa Puso Ko as Sophia, where she was paired with Oyo Boy Sotto and James Blanco.

Later, Nadine and Oyo became real life sweethearts. Their love team achieved high popularity that film production company made a movie for them entitled Forever my Love, a gothic romance-drama. Also, their popularity urged TAPE inc, the producer of the soap, to produce another soap starring Nadine and Oyo which has a fantasy theme in it. It was entitled Leya: Ang Pinakamagandang Babae sa Ilalim ng Lupa (Leya: The Most Beautiful Woman Underground), with Nadine playing the title role. The soap lasted for four months, after that Nadine took a short break.

She received the “Most Promising Actress” award from the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation along with Dennis Trillo who received the male counterpart of the award. After resting for sometime, she was considered to play Darna (Angel Locsin was favored by the management) and as Richard Gutierrez’s love interest in Sugo (Isabel Oli was favored by the management). After a long break, she was included in the second installment of GMA’s seasonal afternoon soap, Now and Forever with their plot entitled ‘Ganti’ (Revenge). She was then dubbed as the afternoon soap opera princess. She proved her acting prowess in the said series. She had comebacking actress Sheryl Cruz as co-star for this hard drama. Then, she made another film with Jennylyn Mercado and Mark Herras in the teen-romance flick, Say That You Love Me. She was also included in the comedy film, “Hari ng Sablay” with Bearwin Meily, Rica Peralejo and Jay-R. As Encantadia is about to end, she was offered to play Minea in the prequel/sequel Etheria playing the same role as Dawn Zulueta’s character and the mother of the four Sang’gres. She ended the year, or rather started it, with the movie Isusumbong Kita sa Kuya Ko with action star Ronnie Ricketts, which was an official entry to the Metro Manila Film Festival. She was also given her first villain role via Bakekang as Lorraine. Samonte left her character from Bakekang to focus on her biggest break as a superhero along with Jennylyn Mercado in Super Twins. Then, she was then chosen to reprise the role of Hilda Coronel in the TV remake of Kung Mahawi Man Ang Ulap alongside Dennis Trillo. Samonte used to be auditioned for the role of MariMar but she has given a role of Innocencia in that said series in which she worked with Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes. After her character was killed off, she later replaced her StarStruck batchmate, Jennylyn Mercado, in the TV remake of Maging Akin Ka Lamang where she reprised the role of Dina Bonnevie, who ironically was the mother of her former boyfriend, Oyo Boy Sotto and Polo Ravales is her leading man who was Patrick Garcia’s replacement..

Her recent soap was Ako si Kim Samsoon, a koreanovela remake, where she plays Hannah, a villain. After Kim Samsoon, she recently worked once again with Dennis Trillo, MariMar co-star Katrina Halili, Glaiza de Castro, Jean Garcia and Maging Akin Ka Lamang co-stars Polo Ravales and Isabel Oli in Carlo J. Caparas’ Gagambino. Then, Samonte is recently working with her fellow StarStruck batch 1 alumni and winners Jennylyn Mercado and Yasmien Kurdi in SRO Cinemaserye: Suspetsa. Later, she plays Babaeng Impakta, one of the original villains, in 2009 TV series of Darna, where she works again with Marian Rivera for the third time since MariMar and Super Twins.

Before joining StarStruck, she was an ABS CBN talent at an early age of 13. Her Batchmates in Star Circle batch 10 are Dennis Trillo, Alfred Vargas, Bea Alonzo and Reggie Curley. Dennis, Alfred and Reggie later followed by Nadine defected to GMA where their careers soared higher to greater heights.

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Maui Taylor (born Maureen Anne Rodriguez Taylor on June 28, 1983) is a Filipino model, singer, and actress of Filipino and English descent[citation needed].

Taylor initially got into show biz with the assistance of a cousin who was a member of a dance group in the Philippines. Because of her mestiza features, Taylor quickly found herself as a sought after actress despite the fact that she had no prior acting experience. She was eventually cast on the Filipino TV soap opera Anna Karenina at the age of 14. This led to other roles in various TV shows as well as cinema, and eventaully became the fantasy girl of every Filipino teenager.

Taylor first gained nationwide attention when she appeared on the cover of the April 2002 issue of FHM (Philippine edition). Because of her mature body and her very youthful face, she instantly became a hot sex symbol among men. This was justified when she appeared in her first starring role in the movie Gamitan, which grossed almost P70 million in the local box office.

Maui Taylor had early movie appearances in films such as Tatarin and S2pid Luv, both from Viva Films.

She had her big breakthrough, in 2002, when she got her first starring role in Gamitan, a movie where she played a young college girl who lost her virginity to an abusive and traitorous basketball player (who only used her in a big bet with friends), and latter plotted schemes of vengeance against those who hurt her. Gamitan was also the first movie where the young actress appeared nude and performed in sex scenes on the screen although no frontal nudity was shown.

Also in 2002, Taylor appeared in the film Hibla where she shared the lead with fellow actress Rica Peralejo. In separate situations in the film, both actresses appeared nude and performed sex scenes with different actors. Hibla easily topped the box office and enjoyed stealing people’s attention as it featured a French kissing scene between Taylor and Peralejo (non-lesbian situation). The film is noted for its stunning capture of natural scenery.

2003 was the last year Taylor was active in films. In April 2003, she starred with actress Katya Santos in the sex comedy Sex Drive, which was deeply inspired by the movie Y’ Tu MaMa Tambien. Although it was blasted by critics for its pointless plot and sex scenes, Sex Drive made around almost P65 million domestically.

For her next movie, titled Ang Huling Birhen Sa Lupa (international title: The Last Virgin), Taylor had to work extra hard as she played a mentally retarded girl and had to live up to the acting prowess of Ara Mina and Jay Manalo, both veterans in the local film industry. She also had to go through rigorous training in order to think and act convincingly like a 10 year old girl (her character in the story is 16 years old) and had to prepare herself for a rape scene.

While not as popular as her three previous movies, Ang Huling Birhen Sa Lupa was the big awards winner for the 2003 Manila Film Festival (including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress) and gained a financial boost from its victory. Taylor gained her first acting nomination with the film, particularly for Best Actress (which went to her co-star Ara Mina). The controversial movie became the festival’s 2nd highest grossing entry.

Later in 2003, Taylor’s film career started sliding as two of her films with Viva, Masamang Ugat and Bugbog Sarado failed to ignite in the local box-office. On the home video front, the star enjoyed a rise in her popularity boosted by the hot sales of the sexy music video collection Sex Goddess.

She continues to be one of the most popular models and actresses in Filipino entertainment. The November 2005 issue of FHM featured an exclusive interview of Taylor as well as a hot-looking cover of her.

Taylor is expected to star in the upcoming movie Short Time, a sex comedy that will be released in late 2006.

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Rica Peralejo-Pretty Girl From Umagang Kay Ganda

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”.[1] 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”.[2] She is reportedly filming a new horror movie titled Matakot Ka Sa Karma which will be shown at the 2006 Metro Manila Film Festival.[3]

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,[4] 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[5] which produced the hit single “Fallin’”.[6] 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”.[7] Her current album is titled Bollywood Fever.[8

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