Richard-Sarah Love Team; Melason, Lino-Fille, Shamcey-Lloyd Weddings on StarStudio February 2014 Issue

The country’s best source for entertainment news and celebrity lifestyle is taking things notches higher this 2014, following a win at the prestigious 12th Gawad Tanglaw Awards for Best Magazine.

Setting the bar with its recent success, StarStudio aims to up its game of bringing the latest happenings in showbiz, as featured in its newest February issue.

For this month, StarStudio Magazine presents “The Love Diaries”—an issue packed with celebrity love stories that will make for the perfect reading this month of love.

Leading the couples featured in this issue are Sarah Lahbati and Richard Gutierrez, who share the exclusive story of how they met and fell in love. The much talked about celebrity couple also give readers a look into their personal travel photos with captions that Sarah wrote herself.

Apart from that, StarStudio looks into celebrity weddings—Melai Cantiveros and Jason Francisco, Miss Universe 2011 3rd Runner-up Shamcey Supsup and Lloyd Lee, and director-turned-Congressman Lino Cayetano and ex-Ateneo volleyball star Fille Cainglet.

A newly-minted couple also takes on the spotlight in StarStudio this February to model day and night date looks, as Gretchen Ho and Robi Domingo show readers ways to look their best for the upcoming Valentine’s day.

All this and more are featured in the February 2014 issue of StarStudio, which was recently named Best Magazine in the 12th Gawad Tanglaw Awards in which ABS-CBN was also named TV Station of the Year.

Get all these and more in StarStudio’s latest issue, available at bookstores and newsstands nationwide. For updates, visit and like StarStudio on Facebook (www.facebook.com/StarStudio.Magazine) and follow the magazine’s official Twitter and Instagram accounts (@starstudiomag) for your best source of entertainment news and celebrity lifestyle.

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Lino Cayetano, Fille Cainglet Wedding Set this Month

TV director and now Taguig congressman Lino Cayetano will be tying the knot with Fille Saint Merced Cainglet, his girlfriend of three months. 

Entertainment reporter Ogie Diaz broke the news on his website, revealing that the wedding is set this month. The groom-to-be, however, refused to give further details about the wedding.

"Outside Metro Manila gaganapin ang kasal; this month na nga ang kasal; family affair lang talaga ang kasal at sa reception na lang imi-meet ang piling-piling bisita," Ogie Diaz shared.

According to reports, Direk Lino has formally introduced Fille as his fiancee to some colleagues from the House of Representatives. Meanwhile, Direk Lino's older brother, Senate Majority Leader Allan Peter Cayetano confirmed the news in an interview with Rappler.com at the senate. 

"For more than a month, he’s (Lino) really been talking about settling down, being in love and for the last couple of weeks, he said that he’s very, very serious and they just wanna do it, settling down and deciding to stay together as husband and wife. When they’ll actually do it and how they’ll actually do it, I’ll leave it up to them," said the senator.

The sudden wedding announcement created speculations that Fille, a former star player of the Ateneo Lady Eagles volleyball team, was pregnant. However, sources close to the couple denied the rumor.

The 36-year-old Direk Lino met 23-year-old Fille last summer in a UAAP volleyball tournament. Before the two became a couple, the director was previously in a relationship with host Bianca Gonzalez, stylist Liz Uy and actress KC Concepcion. He was also once linked to Kris Aquino.

Photo courtesy of Ogie Diaz via IG

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The Plot Thickens in 'Kung Ako'y Iiwan Mo'

ABS-CBN's first-ever OFW-serye, Kung Ako'y Iiwan Mo captured the hearts of Filipinos worldwide especially those working in various parts of the Middle East including the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Doha, Qatar as they got to witness the first few episode of the said teleserye.

Lead stars Jake Cuenca, Bangs Garcia, and Shaina Magdayao, together with the series’ co-director, Lino Cayetano, personally joined the Filipinos in the Middle East who witnessed the first few episodes Kung Ako’y Iiwan Mo.

After the screening, a mix of emotions from the audience members filled the venues; most of them cried and missed their loved ones because of the realistic portrayal of the life of OFWs in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, the plot thickens in Kung Ako’y Iiwan Mo as Paul (Jake) and Sarah (Shaina) start their married life. Now that they have decided to live with Paul’s family, the strength of love will be put to test with the meddling of Remedios (Gloria Diaz) in their relationship. Unlike other wives who remain meek despite the harshness of their mothers-in-law, Sarah knew how to protect herself. With her wife and her mother’s clash, whose side will Paul be on?

Don’t miss the country's first ever "OFW-serye," Kung Ako’y Iiwan Mo, after Mundo Man ay Magunaw in ABS-CBN’s Kapamilya Gold. For more updates log on to www.abs-cbn.com or follow @abscbndotcom on Twitter.

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Kung Ako'y Iiwan Mo Doha Premiere Moves OFWs to Tears

As soon as the lights went out and the scenes of `Kung Ako’y Iiwan Mo’ played, tears immediately flooded the Sheraton Doha Resort and Convention Hotel, venue of The Filipino Channel’s (TFC) premiere of the first ever teleserye shot in the Middle East.

Shaina Magdayao, Jake Cuenca and Bangs Garcia

Filipinos from Doha and nearby cities witnessed the first few episodes of the series co-directed by Lino Cayetano. Personally there to share the preview were lead stars Jake Cuenca, Bangs Garcia and Shaina Magadayao plus Executive Producer Jennifer Soliman who all felt honored to be portraying our kababayans considered modern heroes of our time.

Regional Marketing Manager for ABS-CBN Middle East Maribel Hernaez muses that it was truly a sight to behold as even the male audience had no shame in shedding tears as scene after scene unfolded.

The teleserye deeply touched the hearts of Filipinos in the Middle East because it spoke of the greatest sacrifice Pinoys experience to be able to work and fend for their families – physical distance, something which Jake and Shaina experienced similarly with their television parents Christopher de Leon and Philip Salvador. More than the distance, the teleserye also speaks of the complicated love that ensued between the lead stars, a reality that some of our overseas Filipino kababayans face.

Direk Lino Cayetano and producer Jennifer Soliman

The advance screenings of Kung Ako’y Iiwan Mo received an equally warm reception in other parts of the Middle East like the UAE, Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last April 13, 2012. In Kuwait, it was attended by POLO and OWWA officials while in Saudi Arabia, no less than Hon. Ambassador Ezzedin H. Tago (who was coincidentally celebrating his birthday); Hon. Albert Q. Valenciano, Labor Attaché – POLO/OWWA and his better half Madam Didit Valenciano; Engr. Fouad Taher, TFC Middle East Managing Partner witnessed how the Filipinos were deeply moved by the scenes and the lines from the drama series.

Meanwhile, these advance screenings were made possible by Xpress Money and Megaworld Corporation.

Kung Ako’y Iiwan Mo airs via cable and satellite in the Middle East, Mondays to Fridays 1 p.m. Saudi Time and via the same platforms in North America, Europe, Australia, Japan and Asia-Pacific. In addition, Kung Ako’y Iiwan Mo also airs video-on-demand in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan. For interested parties, contact your nearest dealer or visit www.abs-cbnglobal.com.

Text and photo by ABS-CBN via Starmometer

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Paul Salas is Ella Cruz' Leading Man in 'Aryana'

Teen actor Paul Salas will be Ella Cruz' leading man in the upcoming ABS-CBN series Aryana. Ella Cruz will star as a teen mermaid in this newest fantaserye of the Kapamilya network.

Ella Cruz and Paul Salas had their ABS-CBN contract signing on the same date and these two teen stars are destined to be paired from that day on. 

Ella Cruz will be playing her first lead role after a well-praised performance as the teen Jasmin Valderama in Dahil Sa Pag-ibig. Meanwhile, Paul Salas had a starring role in Oka2kat which will have its last 3 weeks. He also appears as a guest on the hit Kapamilya situation comedy Toda Max as Pokwang's (Lady G) nephew.

With Ella and Paul as newest TV team up, what will happen now to the hype of the Francella team up from Dahil Sa Pag-ibig? Could Francis Magundayao be given another love team or will he be a surprise addition to the cast of Aryana?

Aryana is the tale of a typical teen-age girl if not for her magical fish tail that is triggered to existence when her legs come into contact with water. Also starring Pokwang, Tonton Gutierrez, Desiree del Valle, Laurice Guillen, Tetchie Agbayani, Rustica Carpio, and Lotlot de Leon, and direction from Erick Salud and Lino Cayetano, Aryana is set to premiere this summer on ABS-CBN Primetime Bida.

Watch the Aryana series of teasers here.

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