Marriage can wait
Bea Alonzo does not relish being dominated by any man even as she gets into a netizen-monitored romance as the one she has now with Co.
Daily TribuneBea Alonzo does not relish being dominated by any man even as she gets into a netizen-monitored romance as the one she has now with Co.
VINCENT Co and Bea Alonzo.
Photograph courtesy of FBcheddy's corner
PIolo Pascual
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Actress-businesswoman Bea Alonzo may be thrilled by a love affair but most likely not by motherhood. Even if motherhood could possibly come courtesy of a man very well-off and a man who is well-known as her current boyfriend, businessman Vincent Co.
Alonzo has denied suspicions that she is pregnant. A photo of her taken in a surprise birthday bash (she has turned 38 years old) generated that suspicion as she seems to have a baby bump in the photo.
She recently dismissed the talks about “infanticipation” with this almost curt pronouncement on her social media page: “And for anyone curious about ‘the picture’ — just caught at a bad angle after an amazing dinner... “Glowing but not expecting.”
We have a sneaking suspicion Alonzo will not marry Co — if and when he proposes to her. She is already a well-off icon on her own with properties in the Philippines and in Spain. She owns a travel luggage business, which she hopes will become globally patronized. She does not relish being dominated by any man even as she gets into netizen-monitored romance as the one she has now with Co.
There are just people who don’t relish a change of civil status. They have reached a stature of independence, a stature of almost full self empowerment, and so much self-fulfillment. Aside from Alonzo, among the prominent ones in Pinoy showbiz are Piolo Pascual and Alden Richards.
Both Pascual and Richards are too preoccupied with commitments and aspirations to find a girlfriend to linger with and marry late on. We suspect both Pascual and Richards have so much unspoken aspirations.
Richards’ wanting to be a pilot was something he hardly spoke about until the day he had time to train for it. He is enrolled in a two-year Aviation course in a school in Pampanga.
In September 2025, he completed a challenging ride at the Passo dello Stelvio in northern Italy, a mountain pass known as a training ground for professional cyclists. The mountain has no flat roads, only climbs, with gradients minimum of four percent and a maximum of 16 percent for a 31-kilometer ride.
He has been biking in challenging trails in the Philippines though before his assault on that mountain pass on the boundary between Italy and Switzerland. Alden biked a total of 31.62 kilometers in three hours and 17 minutes.
Sometime this year, the actor-businessman quietly directed a film in which he also starred in and produced jointly with Viva Films: Out of Order, which ranked number one on Netflix Philippines on 3 to 6 October.
Richards will produce the Wonderful Moments Music Festival, a two-day music event on 6 to 7 December at the SMDC Festival grounds. He is also the creative director of the festival, which will showcase a lineup of P-pop and OPM (Original Pilipino Music) artists. His company, Myriad Entertainment, is collaborating with iME Philippines for the event.
Pascual does not talk much about it — but he is a co-founder in 2009 of Spring Films Inc., an independent film production company whose latest publicized project is The Ride, which he top-bills with Kyle Echarri. The two other founders are talent manager Erickson Raymundo and filmmaker Joyce Bernal who has directed Pascual in previous films.
Raymundo heads the well-known Cornerstone Entertainment, which manages talents and produces films for theaters and for streaming companies, including Netflix Philippines.
Spring Films produced the blockbuster Kita Kita (2009), the animated film Hayop Ka!, Kimmy Dora: Kambal sa Kiyeme (2009) and My Amanda (2021).
Pascual, of course, does films with ABS-CBN and other companies. He most likely has other legitimate involvements he practically never talks about, including philanthropic acts.
He is now in the thick of promoting his latest film with the company, Meet, Greet & Bye, a family drama directed by Cathy Garcia-Sampana and top-billing him with “Diamond Star” Maricel Soriano, Joshua Garcia, Belle Mariano and Juan Karlos Labajo.
The film is set for released in theaters nationwide and worldwide on 12 November.
There really is a fulfilling life even outside marriage and parenting. It’s very good that some showbiz idols have been living it up as happy, well-off unmarried persons. Alonzo, Pascual and Richards do not bother with getting married — sooner or later. Among them, only Pascual is known to have had a son in his younger years who has become the actor Iñigo Pascual, now 28 years old.
There really are more than enough children in the Philippines (as well as adults, of course, and including well-educated thieves in the government, politics, and private business companies), so let’s not wish for more in this decade. Of course, we do need more non-corrupting enterprising personalities in the country to provide decent and reliable employment.