Now it can be told: Kathryn Bernardo’s new career goal is to become the country’s hottest-selling sexy actress. She will most likely not hesitate to do scenes in her next movies with the scantiest body cover the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) can tolerate. 

The Pinay actress whose last movie release, ‘Hello, Love, Again,’ is the highest box office grossing Pinoy film so far, seems to be gearing to do not just romantic social drama, but also very sensual ones. If Alden Richards is unwilling to disrobe, Bernardo’s managers at ABS-CBN would have to find for her someone as wiling as her to show as much skin as the MTRCB can accept 

Bernardo may lose a sizeable chunk of her fans who are still minors. Their parents might even stop them from looking at Bernardo’s almost naked photos. Well, they might just be a minority whose contribution to her box office triumph is negligible, so Bernardo doesn’t really care for them. (She began her showbiz career as a child actor.)

The Lopez-owned media-entertainment enterprise has too many talents to handle and try to catapult into unquestionably profitable stardom. One of them is the P-pop boyband BGYO (pronounced as B-G-Y-O, and not us “bagyo,” the Fiipino/Tagalog for “storm”). 

It is not impossible to make the BGYO approximate SB19’s massive popularity. Or possibly even overtake it eventually. Not impossible but may take a longer time to pull off than what ABS-CBN spent to make BINI massively popular. But the enterprise ought to keep trying. BGYO’s promise is boldly palpable. 

If SB19 and the BINI girl group are credited to be the bands that pulled off P-pop domination in some international award events last year, the five boys of BGYO were part of the domination.

For instance, at the BreakTudo Awards 2024 in Brazil, where SB19 and BINI were awardees, so was BGYO. The P-Pop Kings bagged the Best International Male Group award, besting seven other boy bands, such as 5 Seconds of Summer, Stray Kids, Seventeen, TXT, BE:FIRST, Big Time Rush and RIIZE.

The Nation’s Girl Group BINI brought home two awards: International Breakthrough Artist and International Video of the Year for its song “Cherry on Top.” For its part, BGYO won the Song by New International Artist award for its song “Patintero.”

There are numerous social media posts last year celebrating P-Pop milestones. ABS-CBN News garnered the highest number of “love” reactions (191,046) for a post celebrating the senior high school graduation of BGYO members Gelo, Mikki and JL, alongside BINI members Maloi and Cole

The most engaging post came from ABS-CBN News, featuring the senior high school graduation of BGYO and BINI members, achieving an engagement score of 47,565. That means people care about BGYO.