The country's brightest stars and industry movers celebrate a decade of YES!

Mark Angelo Ching
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 07:40PM  |  4730 views


  (Main photo) YES! editor-in-chief Jo-Ann Maglipon with Dawn Zulueta; (insets, from top) Aga Muhlach and wife Charlene Gonzalez, Dingdong Dantes, Richard Gutierrez, Gretchen Barretto, Angel Locsin, John Lloyd Cruz, and KC Concepcion. They are just some of the celebrities who graced the 10th anniversary celebration of YES! Magazine last night, Feb. 23, at the NBC Tent. Click HERE and HERE for more photos.

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Also present were Ogie Alcasid, Jake Cuenca, Jay-R, Chris Cayzer, Kris Lawrence, Miguel Escueta, Enchong Dee, Paolo Paraiso, Emilio Garcia, Marco Morales, German Moreno, Roderick Paulate, Tim Tap, Geoff Taylor, Eduard George, Kian Kazemi, Manuel Chua, Jose Sarasola, Jommy Teotico, Marion dela Cruz, Rocky Salumbides, and the StarStruck V Final 5 (Steven Silva, Sarah Lahbati, Enzo Pineda, Diva Montelaba, and Rocco Nacino).

PEP also spotted the following directors and talent managers: Joel Lamangan, Joyce Bernal, Dante Mendoza, Dante Garcia, Wyngard Tracy, Manny Valera, Ethel Ramos, Malou Choa-Fagar, Leo Dominguez, Dolor Guevara, Boots Plata, Joji Dingcong, and Shirley Kuan.

Angel Locsin and John Lloyd Cruz came in separately, but both were very late, when only a few guests were left inside the ballroom. But they were still a very welcome presence.

Angel was reunited with GMA-7 senior program manager Redgie Magno, who handled some of her shows in the Kapuso network before, like Darna and Asian Treasures. John Lloyd had a handshaking moment with veteran actor Eddie Garcia, when the latter praised him and said he was doing a good job.

Kring Elenzano and Chrina Cuna of Flippish.com hosted the live web feed of the YES! magazine Party red-carpet event and main program.

MAIN EVENT. The main program started with YES! and PEP editor-in-chief Jo-Ann Maglipon's greeting, "Good evening, everyone!" She introduced the staff members of YES! and PEP one by one as they came up the stage.

After this, Jo-Ann called on Summit Media president Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng, who paid tribute to the late talent manager Douglas Quijano, who served as editorial consultant of YES! from the very first issue of the magazine.

"He knew that YES! has potential. He knew that it would be a chronicler of the entertainment world... Douglas, you are missed by us and the industry," Lisa said. She noted in particular how Douglas never interfered in the magazine's coverage, even when YES! had to write about controversies involving his talents—which is the mark of a true editorial consultant.

Then, Mr. Lance Gokongwei—COO of JG Summit Holdings and chairman of Summit Media, which publishes YES!—thanked all the guests who came for the evening, plus the advertisers and sponsors of YES! for their continued support.

"Let's raise our glasses to YES! Magazine's 10 more years of success!" he told the audience.

After this, the program quickly segued to a musical number from the singing trio La Diva—composed of Jonalyn Viray, Aicelle Santos, and Maricris Garcia—who fired up the night with their rendition of Whitney Houston's "Queen of the Night" and En Vogue's "Free Your Mind."

Multi-awarded singer Bituin Escalante then sang Mariah Carey's "Hero" and Florante's "Handog," which was the introduction to the audio-visual presentation on YES! Magazine's 10 years.

The 15-minute audio-visual presentation showed the history, triumphs, the special issues and other work of YES!

Then, Jed Madela belted out a medley of some of the best-loved OPM songs, which was heavily applauded, and followed it up with an upbeat version of "Stand By Me." He was followed by Rhap Salazar, who sang a nationalistic song titled "Galing ng Pinoy."

The WCOPA champions then, together, coaxed a still-shy audience to dance and have a good time with Black Eyed Peas's "I Got A Feeling." This ended the program proper.

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