Before Brazilian hottie Priscilla Mereilles landed the Playboy Philippines stint, another Brazilian babe, Ariani Nogueira was the cover story in FHM Philippines last year. Not to mention another Brazilian model, teener Mariana Del Rio making the rounds of the gossip sites and shows early this year. In the story for the FHM shoot, Ariani Nogueira talked about how she got here in the Philippines and why she got the job that made her famous in Eat Bulaga.

How did a Brazilian model like you land an Eat Bulaga gig?

” I’ve been here in the Philippines since last year and before I became a regular part of the show, I’ve been guesting already. I did T3 magazine’s cover last April and after that, I officially became a regular at around May of this year when TAPE discovered me. ”

You started off in the “Itaktak Mo” portion. Do you even understand what that means?

” No, in fact on my first day on the show, I was really having a hard time understanding anything. As it was, I was already so nervous because I knew I was on a very popular TV show aired nationwide. Then what made it worse was I couldn’t understand a thing anyone was saying. For a time I just kept on nodding at people because they kept on talking in Filipino to me! ”

Is it true that Eat Bulaga is your first TV stint?

Yes, it is. Most of my projects have been print ads and magazine photo shoots. My closest experience to a TV gig is the TV commercials I’ve done, but nothing like this! I’ve never done live TV. But it’s fun, I’m enjoying myself.

Mariana del Rio, 16, finally talked about her rumored affair with Cesar Montano and being the eventual cause of the Cesar Montano and Sunshine Cruz separation. Although, reportedly, Cesar and Sunshine have reconciled.

Mariana del Rio said she was in Brazil when the news broke out of the alleged affair with Cesar. “Sobrang sad ako… I was in Brazil, I couldn’t do anything about it. I couldn’t even defend myself. My friends were the ones, they were calling me and telling me they’re talking about you. They are saying things about you and I was like, please help me out, help me too.”

Mariana del Rio met Cesar Montano last September when she went to Bohol with her friends. And all they discussed is if she wanted to do a movie with Cesar. And that she didn’t even know who Cesar Montano was. Mariana said that her meetings with Cesar had been very professional, and that it was at all times brief.

Mariana del Rio also confirmed that Cesar’s wife, Sunshine Cruz called her up. “Hindi sobrang galit pero galit, hindi like scandalous or shouting pero galit siya. She’s asking me what was going on and I told her that I met him in the airport and he was asking me to do a movie with him. He offered me three movies and told her, I explained to her everything and then after we put down the phone. I texted her explaining again everything that really happened and asking her if it was clear. If she was okay with that?. She said all good, okay, thank you and I thought she was okay.”

Mariana said she’s breaking her silence because, “I’m back to show the people that I did not do anything, and I want people to understand what really happened and Sunshine too, because I don’t know if she really thinks that something happened.”

photo courtesy of T3 Magazine..

Are these pics of Cesar Montano and Mariana del Rio dating pics? Maryan emailed me these photos of Cesar Montano and Mariana del Rio but they are with other people as well, like Cesar and Mariana’s common friends.

An example is Bayani Agbayani, Cesar’s friend, who projects an image of being an “under” to her wife, which fact he even profited by turning the jokes upon himself, and earning in the process.

But from the photos you can tell something different is going on between Cesar Montano and Mariana del Rio.

After all Cesar Montano is very much a married man and Marianna del Rio is an attractive young girl. But to give them the benefit of the doubt, let’s just have the photos speak for themselves shall we???

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Sunshine Cruz and Cesar Montano Separate

In my recent post about the Sunshine Cruz and Cesar Montano’s separation, it was known that the cause of their separation is a pretty teener, with conflicting accounts of her age ranging from 16 years old from her camp to 19 years of age from her Friendster profile.

And the pretty teen model said to be the culprit is Mariana del Rio or sometimes spelled as Marianna del Rio, a Brazilian model based in the Philippines who became famous for that Samba corned beef commercial wherein she sashayed her Brasilian samba prowess to the male audience’s delight.

To get a grasp of how Mariana del Rio got Cesar Montano smitten, take a look at her photos here..does she measure up to the equally beautiful and young Sunshine Cruz? Does Mariana del Rio’s beauty really broke a marriage? There are sketchy reports that she just had a one-night stand with Cesar Montano and she went to Korea for the Holidays with her boyfriend (not Cesar). Meanwhile Cesar Montano vehemently denies a separation saying it was just a minor misunderstanding between him and Sunshine.

Click on the photos for an enlarged view. Btw, who the h#$ll is that guy beside her in one of the pic? He’s hot! Is he the boyfriend?

On December 25, Christmas day, Sunshine Cruz together with her 3 kids with Cesar Montano left their conjugal home and they proceeded to her mother Alma’s house in Parañaque.

Reportedly the reason Sunshine Cruz left their conjugal house is because of a third party, Brazilian model Marianna del Rio, who is the girl famous for the Samba corned beef commercial.

Apparently, model Marianna del Rio was lead to believe by Cesar Montano that Sunshine and he was separated since September. Cesar Montano reportedly brought Marianna del Rio to Cesar’s hometown of Bohol and pointed out to her that he and Sunshine are already separated, proof is that no pictures of Sunshine are displayed in the house. Marianna was also brought to Cesar and Sunshine’s rest house in Bulacan and Cesar once again pointed out that they are separated since no photos of Sunshine can be found at the rest house.

Sunshine had an inkling of an extra-marital affair when text messages coming from a certain “Samba” with a message along the line of “Honey wer r u?” she had stumbled upon on Cesar’s mobile phone.

The last straw happened when she saw photos of Marianna and Cesar in a party held for ABS-CBN’s recently concluded reality show, Mano Mano, which Cesar hosts. In the photos, Marianna and Cesar are unmistakably a couple and when Sunshine confronted the staff of the show, they admitted to know Marianna who they said Cesar always brings with him. In one of the photos, a close friend of Cesar was in the photo. Sunshine confronted the friend who admitted to the affair.

Then Sunshine confronted the woman herself, Marianna del Rio, and Marianna retaliated by cursing Sunshine instead and telling her that she was not a mistress since Sunshine and Cesar had been separated since September.

Much to the shock of Sunshine (life is like the movies, ironically), she had no clue that Cesar can do that, so she confronted her husband and she got another shock of her life when Cesar shot back at her with the line, “Magpasalamat ka at pinakasalan pa kita kahit dati kang PORN STAR!”, to which he said several times to her face. And threatened her that if she makes public her affair with Marianna, Cesar would also reveal everything about Sunshine and Jay Manalo. Jay Manalo and Sunshine were involved in the Dukot Queen scandal, wherein they have an erotic scene that got into vcd’s and the net, although the movie itself was not finished/shown.

Sunshine vehemently denied any of those talk and told friends, “Inaamin kong nag-bold star ako. Pagkakamali ko iyon. Di ako nakinig sa mga magulang ko. Pero alam ni Buboy [tawag niya kay Cesar] na virgin ako nang nakuha niya ako. Ano ba naman yung mag-sorry siya? I’ll forgive him. I love him, e. Hanggang ngayon, I love him. Pero binaligtad pa ako. All I want is a little respect.”

Sunshine and Cesar were married September 14, 2000, they renewed their marital vow in March 2005 in Phuket, Thailand. Sunshine’s manager Alfie Lorenzo will talk about the matter in Startalk today in an exclusive interview.