Foreigners in Manila
Bruno Alves on a safe career plane
Monday, July 13th, 2009You may remember him as the guy who is paired with Mariel Rodriguez for Zen Zest Fragrances’ latest billboards and posters. The guy is Bruno Alves of Reco Models, another Brazilian import like Akihiro Sato, Hideo Muraoka and Nagae Ono. Although the 5’11″-tall looker has not reached the stature of his fellow Brazilian models in [...]
Nagae Ono on being a bearer of good fortune
Sunday, December 7th, 2008Aside from the outrageously huge prizes (One Million Pesos guaranteed every week plus tons of exciting prizes) being given away in TV5′s newest game show, “You & Me Against The World”, another feature of the show which would catch your attention is the host Gretchen Barretto’s manservant in the show whom Gretchen personally addresses as [...]
Hideo Muraoka on a short stop over
Friday, December 5th, 2008It seems that nipo-brasileiro (half-Japanese, half-Brazilian) hybrid fever is not over yet. They are all over the place booking most modeling jobs in the Philippines, getting featured on billboards, gracing runways and appearing on television commercials. Well, who could blame the casters for hiring the services of these male mannequins with well-chiseled bodies and perfectly [...]
Akihiro Sato on beginning his quest to conquer showbiz
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008After lording over fashion runways as well as print and television ads in Manila, Brazilian-Japanese model Akihiro Sato is set to conquer another genre – the movies. I mentioned in one of my earlier posts that the international model was taking Filipino language classes at the University of the Philippines – Diliman in preparation for [...]
« Previous Entries | Next Entries »
