On Thursday, 1 February, at 12:37 noontime, singer-actor JK Labajo posted on Viber's chatroom Backgate Pass: "Hiii musta po kau ito aku nagpapa check up hahaha okay pa naman kaya pa ang life walang bibitaw." 

Fans' reactions began pouring in immediately. By a little past midnight, about 400 fans have blurted out their concern for Labajo. But this time there was no response from the singer-actor.

Labajo has been touring the Philippine archipelago since October to promote his album, which carries "Ere" and its now very famous cuss line.

Having watched many of his videos singing cuts from the album, we know he always sings as if it were his last performance: excruciatingly, though he occasionally grins. It's an exhausting — though engrossing — way to sing. We're not surprised that Labajo suddenly needed a health check-up. 

But on 24 January, the ex-boyfriend of beauty queen-top model Maureen Wroblewitz posted on his Instagram a captivating love duet with Kyle Echarri, his co-star in the recently concluded ABS-CBN series Senior High, headlined by the inscrutable Andrea "Blythe" Brillantes.

The song is "Kasing-kasing Ko," Cebuano for "My sweetheart." Nope, Labajo and Echarri were not hugging at all while singing. If anything, they are just in a bromance, not serious BL.

Both speak Cebuano. Labajo was born there but grew up in Metro Manila, making him very eloquent in Manila street Tagalog. Echarri was born in Orange Country, California 20 years ago, but grew up in Cebu.