Victor Basa denies he is the man in the alleged Victor Basa video. In an interview with Tim Yap on The Philippine Star Supreme, Victor Basa said he had heard about it from a friend but didn’t even look at it. He further said it is not in his nature to do something like that.

Supreme: What if you were victimized without you knowing it? You know, what if your eyes were closed and someone maliciously took the video…?

Victor Basa: I take care of myself and I surround myself with really good people, so I don’t feel threatened or scared.

His message to the people about the video?

Victor Basa: For those who enjoy watching it, enjoy.

Joey Mead stirred some controversy just in time for the nationalistic month of June what with the celebration of the Philippine Independence Day, June 12. She posed in the cover of Rouge magazine with only body paint to cover her bod (See pics below). This “technique” is nothing new, several starlets have done this already. What caused the scandal is the body paint design. Joey Mead is body painted with the design being the Philippine flag. This caused an uproar with some sector calling it abominable and against the law. Joey Mead is Australian-Filipina, her mother being from the Philippines. She used to be a VJ for Hongkong-based music channel, Channel V. She recently came back to the Philippines to host the Mega Fashion Awards with Tim Yap, after moving to San Francisco, CA with her Korean boyfriend, Richard Lee.

Ana Theresa Licaros thinks the Brian Gorell, DJ Montano, Tim Yap, Celine Lopez and Wendy Puyat scandals is a ” Dangerous precedent.” Ana Theresa Licaros is the 2007 Bb. Pilipinas-Universe and a law student in the University of the Philippines. ABS-CBN News Online has a very detailed look at the Brian Gorell, DJ Montano, Tim Yap, Celine Lopez and Wendy Puyat scandals today, entitled ” Online libel: Aussie blogger’s victims are helpless” by Carmela Fonbuena. In it, Ana Theresa Licaros recalled her own “libelous” experiences when beauty pageant fans ridiculed her complete with her photos alongside other beauty pageant winners, calling her ‘mukhang barangay tanod.’

Dangerous precedent

Former Bb. Pilippinas Ana Theresa Licaros understands the difficulty of dealing with online libel. After she won the pageant last year, several hardcore pageant fans who were not fond of her began posting critical statements about her in online forums.

Although she recognizes that as a beauty titlist, she has become a public figure, “sadly, some of the posts are bordering on defamation,” she said.

“I found it really bothersome the way they posted my photos and compared these with other beauty pageant winners. Among the less vulgar comments they would say about her was ‘mukhang barangay tanod.’ I was knocked off for being the smart girl. They say that it’s not a quiz bee.”

Aside from currently taking up law in the University of the Philippines , Licaros also finished a broadcasting degree in the same university and graduated summa cum laude.

Licaros consulted Te, who was her professor. Licaros considered filing libel charges against her critics. She went to the extent of tracking the IP addresses of the anonymous persons critical of her. She found out that they usually use just one IP address, which means that her critics may be using an Internet connection at home or in a regular internet café.

Licaros could have asked the help of the authorities to help her track the IP address, until she decided to reconsider filing a case. “Even if I was personally hurt, I decided not to pursue a case. Although I was really tempted,” she said.

Knowing that the laws on cyberspace are still being defined, the lawyer and the media student in her feared that the “result might extend to other areas of speech that I don’t want to be curtailed.”

Wendy Puyat or Wendy Puyat-Hotung, legally separated from husband Tony Hotung, an old-rich scion from Hongkong, is a swimwear designer, dahlings..The gossipy “Cocktales” section by Victor Agustin of the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported last year that Wendy Puyat Hotung and Tony Hotung divorced after a photograph of Wendy Puyat Hotung was featured in a Chinese magazine emerging from the flat of her gweilo personal trainer.

In 2003, Wendy Puyat Hotung or just Wendy Puyat now, opened the trendy boutique, lily, in Makati and after her very public divorce became a swimsuit designer of her very own line called, starlet.

Wendy Puyat became involved in the Brian Gorell, DJ Montano, Celine Lopez scandal because she is part of the so-called Gucci Gang, who allegedly does coke parties. And because of the Brian Gorell scandal expose, a mole swears an anti-Brian party was held March 13 at the Embassy?! contrary to what Gucci Gang member Tim Yap wrote in the PDI that he was the last one to know daw of the scandal, learning only of it a day before he wrote his piece.

And Tim Yap is on a PR repair bonanza. PEP has a story of him about the Holy Week! That Tim Yap stays in Manila on Holy Week and just contemplates life on those days here..PEP btw, is owned by GMA Network and Tim Yap is a talent, hosting a show in QTV and was a former Celebrity Duets finalist.

Back to Wendy Puyat, next post is about Wendy Puyat’s starlet swimwear creations, don by models.

Manila’s fashionable rich are now embroiled in the so-called Manila High Society scandal. The people involved are scions of the richest families and powerful politicians in the Philippines. Ala Gossip Girl ang drama.

The Manila high society scandal started when an Australian expat, Brian Gorell exposed his relationship with Philippine Star writer/Restaurateur/Enderun teacher, DJ Montano and how he had duped him into investing in a restaurant and travel agency business.

The name of Celine Lopez, Plains and Prints designer, Philippine Star’s YStyle editor, new Celeteque endorser, slash entrepreneur (ang haba ha, pagkatapos may time pa sya sa ibang “activities”) and a scion of the Lopez clan, was dragged into the scandal because, Celine Lopez BFF is DJ Montano. And then when Celine Lopez panicked on the Brian Gorell blog entries, Celine Lopez called former boyfriend Marcel Crespo (Jimenez), son of Mark Jimenez. Marcel Crespo in turn emailed Brian Gorell whose email Brian did not take pleasure with. Wendy Puyat, the controversial Hongkong heiress (?) is also in the picture, but because of the very long blog entries, i don’t know how she got in the picture. Reportedly, all of those involved Philippine socialites are in an exclusive chic’a group called Gucci Gang.

Apparently, DJ Montano had defrauded Brian Gorell in the amount of US$100,000 or more..and Brian Gorell wants DJ Montano to pay him back.

Brian Gorell mentioned that DJ Montano and Celine Lopez belongs to the “Gucci Gang” and whom Brian ridiculed as a group who are called that but they never really wear Gucci. The other members of the so-called Gucci Gang are reportedly Tim Yap, Xeng Zulueta, Wendy Puyat, Bea Ledesma, etc..

On a lighter note, Brian Gorell mentioned that DJ Montano is a VERY expensive boyfriend. Brian said, ” I asked him once to come to Andoks ( a local grilled chicken mom and pop) with me.
He told me he could not be seen there. Ever. So I asked HRH (His Royal Highness) to go for Inasal (another grilled chicken resto). He said, No way.” Baklang AFAM lang pala katapat ng Manila’s High Society kuno…