Carmi Martin denies rumors about looming axing of ‘Sigabo’

Carmi Martin denied with seeming vehemence that Coco Martin’s Sigabo is the one being alluded to in a blind item about a show that will soon be on the chopping block.

“Hindi po SIGABO ang nasa blind item (It’s not Sigabo that is in the blind item),” came Martin’s flat denial.

In the end, Martin hopes that no one wishes ill on any show.

“And let us not wish na mawalan po ng trabaho ang team. Para lang sa intriga. Hindi ninyo po gugustuhin sa pamilya ninyo o sa kapwa ninyo na mawalan ng trabaho. Salamat po (And let us not wish that the team loses their jobs just for intrigue. You would not want your family or your fellow people to lose their jobs. Thank you),” she explained.

In the series, Martin plays the wife of Edu Manzano’s character.

Did Kathryn Bernardo have her nose enhanced?

When Dimples Romana posted a series of photos with her best friend Kathryn Bernardo on Instagram, not a few were surprised at how the latter’s nose looked.

Netizens noticed that the Asia’s Superstar’s nose looked different, as if she had undergone rhinoplasty.

“Nagparetoke ba si Kathryn ng ilong? Bakit parang lalong tumangos at medyo lumaki (Did Kathryn have her nose enhanced? Why does it seem to have become more prominent and bigger),” one fan asked.

What followed were online discussions about the Someone, Someday lead star’s nose.

“Pag tumatanda nawawala ’yung baby fat sa mukha kaya pag matangos ang ilong lalo itong nae-emphasize pag nawala na ’yung umbok sa pisngi. Pansin ko rin kasi sakin dati katamtaman lang ilong ko. Now kamuka ko na si Kathryn, emeee (When one gets older, the baby fat in the face disappears, so a pointed nose becomes more emphasized when the fullness in the cheeks is gone. I noticed it in myself, too. Before, my nose was just average. Now, I look like Kathryn, just kidding),” one fan said.

“Pag pumapayat kasi lumiliit, then kung magparetoke man what’s the big deal? Wala namang masama sa pag-enhance ng sarili (When you lose weight, it gets smaller, then what if she got an enhancement? What’s the big deal? There is nothing wrong with getting an enhancement),” said another fan.

Newbie singer from Leyte

In 2022, a young man from Leyte — formerly the frontman of the band Down By 18 — named Waltz, told Inquirer.net Pop that going solo felt like “the ultimate test.” He was 18 when he first signed with Viva Records as part of a group, and stepping out on his own, after years of having bandmates to lean on, meant learning an entirely different kind of discipline: writing, deciding, and standing in front of an audience by himself.

His first solo single, “Ikaw,” came from that uncertain early period — written for someone he had lost touch with, released with the quiet hope that she might hear it someday. It was an artist still finding out what he wanted to say, and saying it anyway. There was no campaign around it, no invitation for anyone else to join in — just a young songwriter working through something privately, in public.

By 2024’s “Marahuyo,” the writing had sharpened, but the instinct was still largely the same: confess first, hope someone listens. It wasn’t until “100 Dahilan” in 2025 — a single written for people who feel like they have nothing left to hold on to — that Waltz’s music started doing something different. He wasn’t just writing about his own feelings anymore. He was writing for other people.

That shift reaches its clearest point yet in “Alitaptap,” out now under Ant Savvy Artist Management (AS Creatives & Entertainment Inc.) and distributed via Symphonic. The song keeps the same emotional directness that’s defined Waltz since “Ikaw,” but the campaign built around it — #AkingAlitaptap — flips the direction entirely: instead of asking listeners to hear his story, he’s asking them to bring their own.

“Noong nagsimula ako mag-solo, nahihirapan pa ako malaman kung ano talaga ang gusto kong sabihin (When I was starting as a solo artist, I found it difficult to know what I wanted to say),” Waltz reflects. “Ngayon, alam ko na kung ano ang gusto kong iparamdam sa iba (It’s only now that I know what I want others to feel).”

“Alitaptap” carries the same visual choice into its rollout — a consistent warm, gold-lit aesthetic across every platform, built to match the song’s central image rather than compete with it.

It’s a small case study in how a single line, chosen carefully over a more forceful one, can end up defining the shape of an entire song.

Stream “Alitaptap” by Waltz, out now on Spotify, Apple Music, and all major streaming platforms.