Award-winning Broadway actress Lea Salonga recently received backlash from Filipino netizens due to her “kababawan” [Translation: shallowness] tweet as fans linked the said post to Eat Bulaga’s popular split-screen love team AlDub. The tweet said: “Okay lang sa akin ang kababawan, pero hanggang doon na lamang ba tayo? #NagtatanongLangPo” [Translation: “I don’t mind shallowness, but is that all we’re ever going to be? #JustAsking”]
Comedian Joey de Leon even indirectly countered on Twitter: “O, para matapos na itong mga pagtatalo. Mabuti na ang MABABAW kaysa MABABA!
Ayos?” [Translation: “To end this: it’s better to be shallow than low. How does that sound?”]
The actress, however, immediately made it clear that her post was not about the pair, saying: “Uhmmm… I have no idea what’s going on. Why did people assume I was tweeting about AlDub? I wasn’t. I don’t know about it. So why the hate?”
The Eat Bulaga host then posted on Twitter: “Hindi naman pala daw AlDub pinatatamaan ni Lea,” [Translation: “Apparently, Lea wasn’t talking about AlDub.”], to which the The Voice of the Philippines host responded: “Hi, Tito Joey, I’ll take this to mean that you’re at least giving me the benefit of the doubt. For that, thank you very much.”
After the clarification, Joey replied: “Hi Lea, no worries. Wala na ‘yon! Magsimula na lang tayong lahat ng A WHOLE NEW WORLD! Mabuhay ka!” [Translation: “It’s over now. Let’s start a whole new world.”], thus ending their Twitter exchange.
What do you guys think? Do you agree with Lea Salonga or Joey de Leon?
We’d like to hear your thoughts below!
Correct hindi Dapat nag react c Joey Wala naman binanggit c lea na name,,,Pala patol talagA c Joey pusong mamon or balat sibuyas haahhaa
Hilig pumatol ni Joey. yan talaga pag first time magkabreak ang isang show. Sana maging magandang example na lang siya. lahat inaaway .
Bkt naman kc mxadong affected e wala naman binanggit na pangalan? For me, the tweet was just purely a reminder… Even if (just in case) the tweet was about AlDub, di mo naman na cguro kylngn magreact ng ganun kung confident naman kayo na top rating ung program nyo d ba? Prng childish lang ang dating, so immature to react on the tweet… Kung ako sa kanila, ignore ko n lng negative comments about AlDub since famous naman na tlg ung love team… Nakakadagdag lang tuloy ng pansin sa ibang walang alam taz nakakasimpatya pa tuloy ung iba sa kalaban nila… Tssss… :3
Justice for Pepsi Paloma.
Walang alam nkikisawsaw lng