"Protégé: The Battle for the Big Break" Teasers [Videos]

GMA-7's newest singing reality show, is set to air this September. Titled Protégé: The Battle for the Big Break, the reality show boasts of the ten Philippine music icons who will mentor their respective protégés. These protégés were chosen during the various auditions they held at the key provinces of the Philippines.

The ten music icons/celebrity mentors are Janno Gibbs, Jaya, Jay-R, Rachelle Ann Go, Aiza Seguerra, Joey Generoso of SIDE A, Imelda Papin, Claire dela Fuente, Rey Valera and Gloc 9.

Ogie Alcasid, who is excited for his firstborn with the Asia's Songbird Regine Velasquez, will be the Journey Host of the show, while Dingdong Dantes and Jennylyn Mercado are the Gala Presenters.

Watch the mentor teasers on the videos after the jump.

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Dingdong Dantes Covers Garage Mag's 3rd Anniversary Issue

Dingdong Dantes is on the cover of Garage magazine's 3rd anniversary issue looking so hot clad in black leather.

Garage's 3rd anniversary (Aug/Sept 2011) issue is their thickest so far with "292 Pages of the Best Styles of the New Season."

Other features in this issue:

- Get the Body You Want With Our Yoga Guide
- Street Dapper Kings
- Fiery Fall

Garage magazine's 3rd anniversary (Aug/Sept 2011) issue is available in all leading magazine stands nationwide.

Marian Rivera on MOD Magazine's July 2011 Cover

Kapuso star Marian Rivera is on the cover of MOD magazine's July 2011 issue with the cover story "Marian Reigns: The Prime Time Queen Reclaims Her Throne."

Marian Rivera, who stars in the movie Temptation Island, also plays the lead character in GMA-7's top ranking primetime epicserye Amaya. The primetime queen is also quite controversial as of late due to alleged incidents with Heart Evangelista and Sam Pinto.

Heart Evangelista, on the evening news last night, claimed that Marian went to her dressing room and angrily shouted insults at her while they were shooting Temptation Island. The confrontation, according to Heart, stemmed from her announcement that she was excited to work in a TV project with Dingdong Dantes, who is Marian's current boyfriend.

Sam Pinto, on the other hand, said in her interview with tabloid columnist Pete Ampoloquio Jr that her "misery" started when she was linked with Dingdong Dantes. According to the interview, Marian went as far as to bump her on purpose one time. Good thing Sam was able to dodge.

Sam was actually the first one to talk about her issues with Marian. Heart kept her silence for a while and only spilled the beans after her Brazil trip with boyfriend Daniel Matsunaga.

Is there a hate campaign going on against the Kapuso Primetime Queen? I hope not.

Dingdong Dantes and Aljur Abrenica Star in GMA-7's "Cain at Abel"

Kapuso hunks Dingdong Dantes and Aljur Abrenica will star in an upcoming GMA-7 television series that has a working title of Cain at Abel. As the title suggests, the story has a reference to the Biblical characters Cain and Abel, the first sons of Adam and Eve.

The show will be shown on GMA-7's primetime block and I'm sure that alone will be a delight to fans.

Dingdong's was last seen on primetime via I Heart You, Pare, while Aljur's last primetime show was the short-lived television adaptation of Machete. For quite sometime, the two series were both on GMA-7's primetime block at the same time.

Dingdong and Aljur put together in one show is hotness for sure, but the big question is: Who will be the two hunks' leading ladies in this upcoming series? Is this the series Heart Evangelista was supposed to work with Dingdong? Or was that show completely thrown away when Heart and Dingdong's girlfriend, Marian Rivera, figured into a controversial misunderstanding?

I hope they put Kylie Padilla in this series, though. Her Tagalog is doing great in Blusang Itim and I think she's ready for a major role on primetime TV. Rumored to be real life sweethearts, Kylie and Aljur really look good together.

Heart Evangelista vs Marian Rivera?

Marian Rivera and Heart Evangelista are reportedly not in good terms as of late. There are speculations, though, that this rumor was just made up to make people talk more about Temptation Island which is showing July 6th.

But the speculations that it was just a publicity stunt were somehow proved wrong when Heart's mother reportedly shouted angrily at Marian at the Manila airport while the actresses were on their way home from a shooting in Ilocos Norte last June 13th. Cecile Ongpauco, Heart's mother, allegedly even brought bodyguards for Heart, and when the Kapuso Primetime Queen tried to approach Heart to say goodbye, the mother angrily shouted, "Stay away from my daughter!" not knowing that the Temptation Island actresses have patched things up even before they left Ilocos Norte.

Mrs. Ongpauco allegedly threw more angry words at Marian which caused the pretty actress to cry.

There are many versions as to what caused the feud. Some say it started when Heart's boyfriend, Daniel Matsunaga, expressed his interest in working with Marian Rivera. It allegedly continued to Heart talking about how she couldn't wait to work with Marian's boyfriend, Dingdong Dantes, while Marian was within earshot.

It sounds like a petty little quarrel blown up by write-ups that is typical of a promotional stunt. But if the airport incident is really true, I think this issue would hurt Heart Evangelista the most, especially if the other version of the story was true.

The other version
The feud allegedly really started when Heart saw Marian talking with their co-star Lovi Poe and suspected that the two were talking maliciously about her. Heart allegedly called her mother about it and that's the reason why Mrs. Ongpauco was so mad at the airport. Little did she know that her daughter and Marian had already patched things up even before leaving Ilocos Norte.

If the last "version of the story" is true, I think it's Heart Evangelista's fault not to "notify" her mother as soon as possible that she and Marian were already okay. Had she told her mom about it sooner, no airport scene would have been created.

Dingdong Dantes To Host a New GMA-7 Talent Search

GMA-7 is coming up with a new talent search show to replace StarStruck which ran for five seasons. The new show has a working title of The Protègè and will be hosted by Dingdong Dantes.

StarStruck has produced such talents as Jennylyn Mercado, Mark Herras, Aljur Abrenica, and Kris Bernal. The last pair who won the search was Steven Silva and Sarah Lahbati.

The Protègè is set to be shown later this year.

PEP's 20 Sexiest Celebs of 2008

Cristine Reyes, Dingdong Dantes/via PEP

PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal) recently did a survey on who the sexiest male and female celebrities of 2008 were. The survey was conducted among "lifestyle magazine editors, writers, and showbiz insiders."

Here are the results:

Sexiest Ladies
10. Luningning
9. Bianca King
8. Daiana Menezes
7. Anne Curtis
6. Michelle Madrigal
5. Marian Rivera
4. Ehra Madrigal
3. Katrina Halili
2. Angel Locsin
1. Cristine Reyes

Sexiest Hunks
10. Will Devaughn
9. Jon Avila
8. Robin Padilla
7. Kiko Rustia
6. JC Tiuseco
5. Paolo Contis
4. JC de Vera
3. Sam Milby
2. Piolo Pascual
1. Dingdong Dantes

It's interesting to know that Richard Gutierrez wasn't included in the list. Would his mom react violently on this, just like she did when Richard didn't get the loudest applause during the recent Blackout Denim and Underwear Show?

On the other hand, two hunks from Survivor Philippines made it to the list. Kiko and JC were really well-liked due to their "good guy" image and hunky appeal.

Dingdong deserved his spot very well, after receiving the loudest applause during the Blackout and landing third place on E! channel's 25 Sexiest Men of the World.

Note that six hunks and six ladies from the Kapuso network made it to the top ten of their respective categories, while the remaining four slots belonged to the Kapamilya stars.