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Will The Real Miss Philippines Please Step Forward?

October 14, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – In every competition, there are hometown decisions, and then there are hometown decisions. Two for one, so to speak.

When the 2016 Miss Earth beauty pageant unravels in Manila on October 29, there will be two Filipinas who will be competing for the crown: Miss Philippines and Miss Sweden.

Miss Philippines is Imelda Schweighart who happens to be part German. Then there’s Filipina Cloie Skarne, Miss Sweden.

Cloie is Filipino by blood and strongly resembles singer-actress KC Concepcion who is her half sister.

Cloie is the daughter of actor Gabby Concepcion by Jenny Syquia but has taken on the last name of her Swedish adoptive father; while KC is Concepcion’s daughter by Sharon Cuneta.

The other contestants are already crying “foul” because they feel that the Philippines has two representatives to the pageant. “That doubles the chances that the next Miss Earth will be Filipina,” they claimed.

The reigning Miss Earth is also Filipina, Angelia Ong.

Beauty, International, Politics, Race Relations

Miss Philippines Grabs Spotlight From President Duterte For Hitler Comment

October 14, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has been criticized for recently comparing himself to Adolf Hitler (although it was actually Ex-President NoyNoy Aquino who first did).

Well, the heat is off Duterte.

A Filipina beauty queen has taken over the spotlight for her comment about Hitler.

Imelda Bautista Schweighart, who is competing in Miss Earth 2016, made the comments about President Duterte during a pageant video posted on social media. She compared her country’s president to Hitler for the way he is trying to eliminate drugs.

While posing with Austrian counterpart Kimberly Budinksy, Ms Schweighart asked her if Hitler was from Austria.

“That’s a bad question because we normally don’t really talk about Hitler. But yes, he is,” Ms Budinsky answered.

Schweighart replied, “No offense meant. I’m half German so I just wanted to make sure that Hitler was really Austrian and not German.”

End of story.

The Miss Earth Pageant will be held in Manila on October 29. Stay tuned.

Entertainment, Film and TV, Government, Politics, The Media

Philippines President Duterte To Host TV Game Show

October 13, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Duterte portrait by Japanese artist Ayumi

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Several weeks ago, Philippines President Rodrigo Roa Duterte announced that he would allot an hour-long morning show on the government’s television station, PTV4, to communicate directly with the Filipino people. Well, that television program will soon become reality — as in reality TV.

Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar today unveiled the format of Duterte’s show, which in reality, is a game show. The title? “You Ask Me One, I’ll Ask You Two!”

During the commercial-free TV show, Duterte will field questions from the television audience, and for each question he answers, he will ask two questions.

Andanar said that Duterte was very confident his answer to each question will embarrass the questioner, while the answers to his two questions will find the questioner totally in agreement with the president.

For the game show’s premiere episode, Duterte’s guests will be representatives from the United Nations, United States and European Union.

Here’s the full announcement from the Office of the President.