With seeming hesitance, Jericho Rosales did nor categorically answer our query if he and Janine Gutierrez were already a couple.

“I think it deserves a nice announcement or like a prepared announcement if it calls for that.  I don’t know, but we’re happy. We like each other so much. I like her company. It’s going so well,” he said during the finale mediacon for Lavender Fields where they play husband and wife.

In September last year, this writer fearlessly asked the actor about the real score between him and Gutierrez after they were spotted a few times together.

“We’re dating. We’re getting to know each other,” came his reply then.

More than the label, what’s important for Rosales is the fact that they get along well. “I like being with her and she likes being with me.”

Rosales is proud of where his Tyrone character in Lavender Fields is heading.

“Maganda ‘yung kahihinatnan ng character ko dito kasi inaayos na niya ‘yung pagkakamali niya kahit medyo hindi nangyayari, hindi niya naaayos lahat (My character turns out well here because he fixes his wrongs even though it’s not all happening; he’s not able to fix it all),” he said.

By fixing some aspects of his character’s life, Rosales feels there’s some resonance as there are people who “fall” and are “destroyed” in the process.

Fake news

John Estrada called fake news the rumors linking him with fellow Batang Quiapo star Barbie Imperial.

This comes right on the heels of rumors that Incognito star Richard Gutierrez asked Batang Quiapo production to pull out Imperial from the show because of jealousy.

“Unang-una, hindi ko alam kung sino o saan nagsimula ang kalokohan na’ to, na naglilink sa amin ni Barbie Imperial (First of all I don’t know who and where this foolishness started which links me and Barbie),” Estrada said Sunday, 5 January, on his Instagram account.