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Derek: Hurt but moving on

Derek Ramsey can’t help but feel hurt. That’s because he was the last to know that he was taken out as Bea Alonzo’s leading man in a Star Cinema project directed by Olivia Lamasan.

“Hindi ako naniwala sa mga tao sa paligid ko na wala na nga ako talaga (sa movie),” the new TV5 contract artist admits.

But even then, he remained positive and thought he made the right decision by blocking off many projects to give way to the Bea  movie. Until his manager (Joji Dingcong)  told him the sad news that he (Derek) will no longer make the movie with Bea.

“I was the last to know,” he relates. “But I had to understand where it’s coming from. (Star Cinema) management believes it’s better for Bea to have a different partner in the movie.”

He was hurting and sad that he won’t work with Bea again, after they had a great time in their previous films, “One More Chance” and “I Love You So.”

“I don’t know if I will apologize to Bea because I haven’t done anything wrong,” he shares. “I just want to thank her for agreeing to work with me (again). Mas marami siyang hits na ginawa. Hindi pa lang kami nakapag-usap.”

But Derek would rather move on and refuse to take the Star Cinema decision personally.

“I don’t think they (Star Cinema) did it to spite me. I think they’re doing it as a business (decision).”

Looking at the bright side


So he’d rather look at the bright side.

“At least, I was able to have the short chance to work with Direk Olive (Lamasan). I shot one big scene for the movie.  Direk Olive texted me and said maybe we can work together again in the near future.”

Star Cinema boss Malou Santos also sent Derek a text saying she hopes that he understands the decision.

Derek has no need to complain. Not when a call lifted his low spirits five minutes after he learned the sad news about his removal from the  Bea movie.

He learned that Viva Entertainment is casting him with Anne Curtis and KC Concepction in the romance-drama with the working title “Nothing Compares to You.” 

Derek couldn’t help but exclaim, “Wow, Lord!” when he learned about the offer.

The film casts Derek as a playboy who falls in love for the first time and wants to get married. But one moment of weakness sends his whole world crumbling down.

“Mas daring and complicated ang story na ito,” Derek reveals. He singles out KC’s character as extra challenging “because she has to step out of being KC to play the role.”

KC, like Anne, plays a party girl in the movie. But KC is the more liberated type who always goes out on a date. Anne sticks to just one guy. The two friends will end up fighting over a man (Derek).

“Nothing Compares to You” is not the only movie Viva, which produced Derek’s hit films – “No Other Woman” and “Praybeyt Benjamin” – has in store for the Kapatid talent.

Viva big boss Vic del Rosario wants Derek to play the title role in the new version of Fernando Poe Jr.’s “Totoy Bato.”

“Hindi lang siya pang-romansa; pang-sports pa,” says Del Rosario, referring to the film’s heavy action scenes.

Dream leading ladies


There are more movie offers, but if Derek has his way, he wants to do films with Vilma Santos  (“kahit extra, okay na”), Maricel Soriano  (“she’s most intense and will cut a scene to teach you how to do it”), and Sarah Geronimo (“I’m a fan”).

As newly-minted Kapatid, Derek will host the Philippine version of “The Amazing Race,” for which he looks forward to “traveling all over the beautiful country.”

He’s doubly thrilled to return to his native Great Britain where he will do TV5’s primer for this year’s London Olympics “and see the best athletes in the world.”

But before that, Derek will host the Miss World Philippines pageant in June.

“My hosting the Bb. Pilipinas didn’t push through, but I got Miss World instead,” he smiles.

Derek will be crowned Box Office King on Sunday, April 29, at the  Guillermo Mendoza awards. After July, Derek hopes to be in talks about teleseryes.

Rosary around his neck


Derek traces these blessings to a rosary he wears around his neck, especially during presscons such as the one Viva hosted for him on April 27 at its Ortigas office.

The rosary with beige-colored beads came from a nun who made it just for him and gave it to Derek  as a gift when he visited the site where the Blessed Virgin appeared at the Carmelite convent in Lipa, Batangas.

“Lots of good things have been happening to me and my family since sinuot ko ito,” Derek reveals. “The rosary will be there to protect me and to give me blessings.”

This also explains that different glow some people can’t help but notice in Derek these days.

“People say I look happy at bumata raw ako,” he beams.

If you’re as blessed as Derek is, you can’t help but look – and feel like someone on top of the world.