• Toward the middle of the year, a young actress will regret having made what people around her called “a good career move.”

• Three showbiz couples will break up, one due to the wife’s infidelity and the two due to, ehem, “third parties.”

• A showbiz-oriented talk show will fold up. (Oh, my God, which one!?!)

• There will be a big shake-up in the news and public affairs department of a network — as more heads will roll. (Whose heads? My Crystal Bola-Bola and Tarat Cards didn’t specify.)

• A popular movie-TV actress will make shocking revelations about her actor-boyfriend who is not as santo-santito as he seems to be.

• Another showbiz couple will migrate. (After you, Dingdong Avanzado and Jessa Zaragoza who are now settled in California; and Rodel Velayo and Daniella, now in Australia.)

• A young actress will get pregnant out of wedlock but she won’t marry the “culprit” (her actor-boyfriend) yet.

• More scandals (not as horrible as those that happened in 2007) will rock the game shows. As usual, the senators and the congressmen will try to get media mileage by, ho-hum, threatening to initiate a “probe.”

• A young actress will surprise everybody by announcing that she’s getting married to her non-showbiz boyfriend.

• An actor-politician will continue to be hounded by intrigue but he and his wife and children will, as usual, survive it.

• A showbiz stage mother and her actress-daughter will wage an ugly word war against each other on — where else! — national television.
In his opener for 2008, respected entertainment columnist and tv host Ricky Lo predicts the future, but we all know these too all along…Ricky Lo hosts The Ricky Lo Exclusives on QTV 11.

• A sweet, young singer-actress might rebel against her over-strict parents.

• Unless he changes his wanton ways (with money and, because he has the illusion that he’s guapito, with women), a sports star will find himself enmeshed in more controversies which might be too much for him to handle, thus putting his family life at risk.

• A talent manager and her alaga will part ways under unpleasant circumstances.

• A young actor will be arrested for cracking a bomb joke at an airport.