The list of 50 richest Filipinos has been released by Forbes magazine. Henry Sy of SM Malls topped the list for the sixth time this year. He now has an estimated net worth of $12 billion.
Oscar Lopez of Lopez Holdings that owns ABS-CBN ranked 22nd with $675 million. Meanwhile, three from GMA-7 were also in the list - Gilberto Duavit was 37th with $224 million, Menardo Jimenez was 38th with $223 million, and Felipe Gozon was 41st with $200 million.
Angelica Panganiban and John Lloyd Cruz are on the cover of Yes! magazine’s November 2012 issue together with Ogie Alcasid, Regine Velasquez and their son Nate, and Manny V. Pangilinan.
In the issue, the mag reveals “What Yes! Knows” about Angelica and John Lloyd. The two are the hottest items today with the director of Angelica’s indie movie Madaling Araw Mahabang Gabi recently revealing that the two have been in a relationship for four months now.
TV5 big boss Manny V. Pangilinan paid for Dolphy’s hospital bills.
Zsa Zsa Padilla, Dolphy’s long-time partner, revealed to GMA-7’s Startalk that the business magnate shouldered the Comedy King’s month-long hospital bills at the Makati Medical Center.
The issue of the “big merge” of GMA-7 and TV5 seems to be nonstop.
Ricky Lo wrote in his Funfare column in Philippine Star that the merger was confirmed by TV5’s big boss Manny V. Pangilinan himself during a presscon in San Francisco last Saturday, and that the merge will be launched end of November.
Manny Pangilinan confirmed the rumors that he indeed wants to buy GMA-7.
The chairman of TV5 and PLDT said that he began talking with the management of the Kapuso as early as 2002, followed by another talk five years ago. The talks, though, were very preliminary.
The rumor about Pangilinan buying GMA-7 came out December 2011. He allegedly offered a mind-boggling deal to acquire the network and the deal was allegedly 2/3 done.
GMA-7’s Felipe Gozon, however, denied it by saying that it was “a very wild rumor.”
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