Blog Posts by Maridol Rañoa-Bismark

Nora Aunor didn’t look a year older when TV5 gave her big bash for her 60th birthday at the Meralco Multi-Purpose Hall in Ortigas on Tuesday, May 21.  Garbed in a  royal blue blouse, matching shorts and high heels, the Superstar gamely answered questions from the press, some of them her friends from way back.

One of them recalled Nora’s younger days.

“Who are your greatest loves?” he asked Nora pointblank

Nora didn’t name names.  But Noranians know she was referring to Christopher de Leon and Manny de Leon  respectively (no relation to each other) when she replied, “Yung pinakasalan ko at yung first love ko.”

That chapter of her life is closed, though. And she has other things to do.

Personal plans

Nora laid out her personal plans: she wants to play a bida-kontrabida role, revive her NV Productions and return to the stage.  The last two plans are earmarked for this year.

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Councilor-elect Alma Moreno’s eldest son Mark Anrthony Fernandez won’t join politics the way she did years back.  The late Rudy Fernandez’s son believes he’s better off helping people in his own way.

“Mahilig ako  maging Samaritano (Good Samaritan). Tutulong na lang ako bilang Samaritano,” he said at the press visit for his  GMA teleserye “Bukod Kang Pinagpala”  in Antipolo.

But he’s happy for his mother, who is in her last term as Paranaque councilor.

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“Pinagpala siya,” Mark borrowed a word from his teleserye, which takes a final bow on Friday, June 7.

Mother and son seldom see each other anymore, but they keep communication lines open.

That’s why Mark knows there’s no truth to rumors that Alma and her husband,   Marawi City Mayor Sultan Fahad  Salic are separated.

“Hiwalay lang sila physically dahil sa politics,” Mark explains.

Sad for Joey, Aga and Richard

He feels sad that his Tito Joey Marquez failed in his bid to return to politics and

Less than a month after their civil wedding in Las Vegas on April 3, Ai Ai delas Alas and businessman Jed Salang have split up.

In an exclusive interview on “The Buzz” on Sunday, May 19,  a devastated Ai Ai cried and  told manager and host Boy Abunda that she ended her short-lived marriage on May 2.

The root of the problem started even before they tied the knot.

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Third party

“May isa siya friend dati,” Ai Ai recalls. “Three months lang kami (noon). Siguro naawa siya sa akin, nakonsiyensiya siya (at sinabing) may balak si Jed na papatulan lang ako ni Jed and later on  -- ayoko sabihin yung word  -- tapos nagawa na niya yung bagay na 'yon iiwan niya ako at kakasamahin niya ay iba,”

According to  Ai Ai, that other person is Jed’s ex. She added that she was able to confirm what she has been feeling from the very beginning but was afraid to face it because it was too painful. But she didn’t separate from him because she still loved Jed very