It was such a delight to interview American Idol Kris Allen, Jabbawockeez and Boyce Avenue with my newspaper colleagues on the online show My Foursome, on PLDT’s Watchpad.
Kris used to travel the world as a missionary.  Now he’s globetrotting as he spreads his music. He’s the only American Idol who’s married.
Doesn’t his wife Katy get jealous of his fans? “Not at all,” he says. “She keeps me sane. Without her, I would be a wreck.”
He confessed that he never expected to win AI and that he couldn’t wait for the competition to end so that he could go back to his normal life. But after bagging the title, his world is now far from what it used to be.

The three gorgeous brothers who comprise Boyce Avenue said they uploaded their acoustic numbers on YouTube just for the heck of it and they got the biggest surprise of their lives when they became an Internet sensation.

They chose to call themselves Boyce Avenue because it’s the name of the street they grew up on.

The cool Jabbawockeez dancers swear that the thought of disbanding in the future is unthinkable because they no longer consider themselves just as a dance group but as a family.

Happy Pokwang
Pokwang is not wary at all that her spoofing Marlene Aguilar may get her in trouble. “So far wala pa namang nagpro-protesta,” she says, laughing. “Pag na meet ko si Marlene, pasasalamatan ko siya kasi binigyan nya ako ng bagong character to impersonate.”
Pokey is also happy about another character, Lovely, that she portrays in ABS-CBN’s Your Song Presents: Feb-Ibig! every Sunday after ASAP. It’s the story of a woman whose heart has become jaded because she always ends up getting hurt.
In real life, Pokey says that she will never let money or fame take over her heart. “Tama na protektahan ang pera at katanyagan,” she explains. “Pero hindi dapat umabot sa punto na makalimutan mo nang umibig.”
How does she feel that PBB housemate Melai is being groomed to be the next “Pokwang?” “I’m flattered,” she says. “I’d be willing to do a project with her. Sayang ang raket (laughs).”
Does she find Melai funny? “Nakakaaliw siya,” she quips. “Pag nag-meet kami, bibigyan ko siya ng pointers. Mahirap magbigay ng todo-todo na comment about her. Baka ma-misinterpret ako.”
Watch out for the wacky combination of “MelaWang.”

Gentleman Ronald
I’m glad that Channel V’s top honcho Ronald Singson went out of his way to clarify what I wrote in my previous column about him having me banned at the press con of the foreign artists I mentioned above—because he didn’t exactly like what I wrote about him and Lovi Poe.

It turned out to be a case of miscommunication. Our common friend, Channel V exec JM Rodriguez, intervened so Ronald and I were finally able to meet at Shangri-La Edsa after the press con.
Being the true gentleman that he is, he apologized. I thought he would get mad because of the revealing pics of Lovi and him that I provided, but he didn’t.
“I respect your opinion as much as anybody else’s,” he says. “Lovi and I are not hiding our relationship but neither are we announcing it.”