DSWD to protest ‘Willing Willie’ over dancing 6-year-old
Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Dinky Soliman will write a letter of protest to TV5 management, headed by its chairman Manny Pangilinan, over another controversy involving "Willing Willie" host Willie Revillame.
Soliman said she will appeal to the network not to allow children to endure ridicule and embarrassment on national television after its early evening program allowed a six-year-old boy named "Jan-Jan" to perform dance moves akin to male erotic dancing. During the routine, "Jan-Jan" was crying amid laughs from the audience and strikingly from Willie himself.
In an e-mail to Yahoo! OMG! Philippines, Soliman said: "I will write a letter of protest to Channel 5 (and) to Mr. Manny Pangilinan regarding the case and we should all write him and demand that children should not be part of the show. They should not be used as instrument for enjoyment and to be laughed at. I will send the communication today."
At one point during "Jan-Jan's" performance, Revillame said: "Umiiyak pa yan…Ngayon pa sa hirap ng buhay ng tao…si Jan Jan siyempre sasayaw bilang macho dancer sa edad na yan para sa kanyang mahal na pamilya…pinahanga mo ako Jan Jan."
"Lumuluha yan…parang sa pelikulang 'Burlesk Queen'…umiiyak na ganoon…ginagawa para sa pamilya. Masama ang loob pero kailangan kong gawin para sa mahal sa buhay," he added.
The show's spinner then repeated the song the child had danced to five times after, apparently forcing the sobbing child to repeat his "macho dancing," even in his final appearance on a rising platform on stage.
