Rhed Bustamante is a stunning elf with her pretty face and broad mountain-like breasts.

Yes, we’re referring to the young actress that the upstart filmmaker Darryl Yap wants to catapult to solo stardom in the “ever forthcoming” The Rapists of Pepsi Paloma. Bustamante, 19, stands only 5’ 1”, and has dyed her hair blonde that goes well with her light and smooth skin. 

The Rapists of Pepsi Paloma is now an “ever forthcoming” ouevre simply because the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) will not review it for theater release until a cyberlibel case against Yap is concluded. The case filed by actor Vic Sotto began litigation at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court only on 17 January. Litigations have no deadlines. The MTRCB maintains that they cannot review and rate (classify) any film or TV material under litigation or administrative investigation. 

Meanwhile, the petite stunner Bustamante has just been launched as the endorser of a beauty-and-health milk product enigmatically branded as Dear Face. The launch was held early Tuesday (6 February) night  at Super Sam restaurant at the commercial estate Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig City. 

Internet reports bare that Bustamante has the height of 5’1” at the age of 19 — and to make herself afloat during events where almost everyone is taller than she is, she wears platform shoes with a heel of six inches.

She wore a pair of those towering clogs at her launch were she was joined on stage all the time by the lovely and un-petite Jonah Sison-Ramos, the chief executive officer of Dear Face who, for a year or two, did live selling of her company’s products on TikTok. The CEO wore stilettos that have heels a few inches lower than those of Bustamante’s towering clogs. We did not notice what the excruciating gushy female host, who also joined the celebrities on stage, was wearing. 

It was not announced in the Super Sam event if Bustamante was replacing ABS-CBN young sexually-liberated star Andrea Brillantes as Dear Face celebrity endorser or if Yap’s choice actress is an addition to the celebrity endorsers of the company. 

Brillantes was not mentioned at all at Bustamante’s launch. While reading up in the Internet about the company, its CEO, and products, we learned that Brillantes was launched as a Dear Face endorser last May. 

At Bustamante’s launch, the journos and the vloggers were not allowed to ask questions beyond the company and the young actor’s involvement with the health-and-beauty milk products. No, not even after the gushy host-moderated and drawn out question-and-answer segment. When we huddled around Bustamante with our cameras and phones, a staff joined the crowd to remind us not to throw in questions extraneous questions. Possibly because that was a media event meant mainly for lifestyle journos, no one violated the prohibition. 

It’s possible, too, that the organizers wanted to prevent anyone from figuring in a sub-judice case should they include in their report any comment that can affect the litigation or violates the writ of habeas details granted to actor Vic Sotto’s petition not to be mentioned in any broadcast or printed material intended to publicize or promote The Rapists of Pepsi Paloma.

Bustamante is literally soft-spoken and seemingly reticent. Those in the huddle though didn’t beg her to speak louder. They would probably just increase the volume of their gadgets when they transcribe their interviews or when they post them in their YouTube channels.