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Film and TV, International

When Steve Harvey Announced The Wrong Miss Universe, He Didn’t Make A Mistake

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IMG_7516.JPGHOLLYWOOD, California (The Adobo Chronicles, Los Angeles Bureau) – Last year, when Steve Harvey announced Miss Colombia as the new Miss Universe, he did not make a mistake.  So why is Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach now wearing the crown?

In a very public admission on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show, Harvey insisted he could read and that he just did what he was told to do “by a man on his ear.” Furthermore, the same man said Harvey did a “good job.”

Listen to Harvey himself make this big reveal.

Harvey returns as host of the popular beauty pageant in January when Wurtzbach crowns her successor in the Philippines.

This time he promises not to listen to the man on his ear but rely on his reading skills.

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International, Language, Religion, Social Media

Pope Francis To The Media: You’re A Piece Of Sh*t

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img_7505VATICAN CITY (The Adobo Chronicles, Rome Bureau) – Media that focus on scandals and spread fake news to smear politicians are nothing but a piece of sh*t, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Wednesday.

Francis told the Belgian Catholic weekly “Tertio” that spreading disinformation was “probably the greatest damage that the media can do” and using communications for this rather than to educate the public amounted to a sin.

img_7506Using precise psychological terms, he said scandal-mongering media risked falling prey to coprophilia, or arousal from excrement, and consumers of these media risked coprophagia, or eating excrement.

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Boracay’ s Famous Sand Castle To Be Demolished

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BORACAY ISLAND, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The world’s most beautiful island, as per the magazine Condé Nast, is in deep, deep trouble.

Its most famous sand castle built in the middle of the long stretch of White Beach is about to come down for good, thanks to the persistence of environmentalists and advocates against illegal construction on public land.

The sand castle, which bears the words, ” I love Boracay,” along with the month, day and year updated on a daily basis, is one of the island’s icons.  No one who visits Boracay goes away without a selfie in front of the sand structure.

This is not the first illegal construction demolished in Boracay.  Years ago, government agencies demolished illegal structures of a posh resort for encroaching on a no-build zone among various other alleged violations of local and environmental laws. That resort, the West Cove, is rumored to be owned by Filipino champion boxer and now Senator Manny Pacquiao.

So, while “it’s more fun in the Philippines,” you never know when the axe falls on you especially if you do not have the needed permits to build on public or zoned land.

Tomorrow, December 10, a final tribute to the sand castle will be held by residents and tourists alike.  There will be music, fire dancing, buffets and free San Mig light beer to all who will attend the “burial.”

Unlike the remains of the late Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani, it will be impossible to exhume the sand after it is demolished. That means, there can be no protests or rallies.

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