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MANILA, Philippines - GMA Artist Center (GMAAC) talent Iza Calzado scored two Best Actress nominations in this year awards season.

“I cannot begin to describe the way I feel about being nominated in Gawad Urian and ENPRESS Golden Screen for Best Actress,” says Iza. She said she is truly grateful for these nominations, adding that “it is such an honor to be in the same league as great actresses such as Vilma Santos, Eugene Domingo, Irma Adlawan, Janice de Belen, and Sharon Cuneta for ENPRESS.”

Just to be nominated alongside these actresses, Iza says, “I feel like I have already won.”

The actress is cited for her role in Joel Lamangan’s socially-aware film Dukot. Iza says she owes everything to the director.

“It all started with (him). He would tell me before, that one day, he would like to do a film with me and I will play the lead.” Iza recounts that it was during the filming of Desperadas 2 that he told her about the role of Maricel in Dukot. “He was excited because he said that the project he wanted for me to do, was already being planned.”

Iza shares that she didn’t even have to consider anything. “I was more than happy to do the film.” Although Iza admits to being scared at first, upon finding out about the film’s political theme, the challenge excited her as well. “I had never done anything like that before. (And) upon reading the script, I became a hundred percent sure that I wanted to make this film.”

MANILA, Philippines – Actress-host Anne Curtis said Wednesday she felt disrespected and disheartened over the publication of the photo of her "wardrobe malfunction" in Boracay on tabloids and on the web.

"I really feel upset [that] it's coming out. Sana they had a little respect man lang," Curtis said in an exclusive interview with ABS-CBN News.

The young actress said the incident was just an accident, and she was not expecting it to spread in the Internet.

Curtis, who was wearing a bikini, was dancing on stage when the right part of her top folded and accidentally showed her right breast.

The photo, which went viral on social networks such as Facebook, also landed in different gossip sites, blogs and tabloids.

The wardrobe malfunction happened while she was taping for the summer special episode of musical variety show “ASAP XV” in Boracay.

MANILA, Philippines - Viva Communications introduces its first boy group. This is XLR8, pronounced accelerate, which means to increase the speed. And that is just what is expected to happen once fans get their first sight of these talented boys. XLR8 will make its debut in Party Pilipinas on March 28 and they will perform the first single You’re So Hot from their self-titled album.

It took Viva one year of auditions, dance and voice training and to find the right songs for the boys from producers Christian de Walden and Marcus Davis.

Hideaki Higashi (Aki). Born and raised in Japan of a Japanese father and Filipino mother, Aki opted to make his home in the Philippines because he wants to be in show business. His career experience includes regular stints in Walang Tulugan and the defunct S.O.P. as a singer and dancer. He likes halo-halo, taho, noodles and adobo. He speaks Japanese and Tagalog.

John Carlo B. Lazerna (Carlo). Carlo is the video game addict of XLR8. He is seldom without a game going on no matter where he is. His other passion is dancing which he began as a form of exercise but has now become a big part of his career. He also likes pretty girls and treats his fellow members like his brothers. He likes watching animé and shows like Phineas and Ferb, The Simpsons and Spongebob.

Meljohn Magno (MJ) and Melmar Magno (MM). MJ and MM are XLR8’s R&B twins. They had voice lessons as kids but everything else like dancing and playing the drums, keyboards and guitar came naturally. The boys have appeared on television. They also paint and to the delight of XLR8 are also budding songwriters. MJ is in fact making his songwriting debut in the group’s album with the songs Dance With Me, I Love You Girl and Ms. Beautiful. They dream of becoming Kings Of Pop and conquering Asia like Rain.

MANILA, Philippines – Regardless of the outcome of the May 10 elections, vice presidential candidate Edu Manzano has announced that he is quitting show business.

Manzano, the former host of “Pilipinas, Game KNB?,” said he has no plans of going back to acting and hosting entertainment television shows.

"I do not like to be dancing the ‘Papaya’ at age 55. Hindi na rin kaya ng tuhod ko," he said, referring to “Game KNB’s” very famous “Papaya Dance.”

Manzano disclosed that he now prefers to host current affairs programs.

When it comes to the matters of the heart, meantime, the Lakas-Kampi-CMD vice presidential candidate has set aside the issue. He added that he and his former girlfriend, news anchor Pinky Webb, are no longer talking.

Meanwhile, Manzano said he does not regret his absence in ABS-CBN’s "Harapan: The Vice Presidential Debate" last Sunday.

In a press conference, Manzano said he could not attend the forum since he already had a prior commitment for a provincial campaign.