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Kris Aquino Profile |
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Birth Date: February 14, 1971
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Birth Place: Quezon City, Philippines, USA
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Birth Name: Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino
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Height: 5'3"
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Biography |
Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino-Yap, (born February 14,
1971 in Quezon City) is a prominent television and movie
personality in the Philippines.
She is the fifth and youngest child of former president
Corazon Aquino and Benigno Aquino, Jr., a popular opposition
senator during the Ferdinand Marcos regime. She is the
youngest of five siblings: Maria Elena, Aurora Corazon,
Benigno the III (who currently represents Tarlac in the
Philippine House of Representatives) and Victoria Eliza.
In recent years, Aquino has been labeled "The Philippines'
Queen of Talk," due to her success in hosting talk shows.
She was also crowned as the 2004 Box Office Queen for her
hit movies such as Feng Shui and So... Happy Together.
In the infamous 1978 parliamentary elections where her
father was a candidate, the seven-year-old Aquino wooed the
crowds as a stand-in for her imprisoned father at campaign
rallies. Aquino spent most of her elementary school days in
the United States because the Aquino family was in exile.
After the assassination of her father in 1983, Aquino
returned to the Philippines and was a precocious presence in
rallies against the Marcos regime.
After the 1986 revolution that removed President Ferdinand
Marcos from power, the teenaged Kris stepped into the
limelight, starting with guest spots on television dramas
and comedies, as well as talk shows. Finally, she made her
film debut with actor Rene Requiestas in the comedy Pido
Dida.
Aquino afterwards had a commercially steady, though
critically panned career and managed to score an acting
nomination for The Fatima Buen Story. She also starred in a
film based on a true-life murder, The Vizconde Massacre. Its
financial success and successive crime films of the same
vein in which she starred in gained her the nickname
"Massacre Queen" by newspaper critics.
Kris graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1992
with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature.
It was not until 1994, that she did a Nandito Ako with
action star Philip Salvador that started one of Kris' very
controversial love affairs. Aquino became pregnant and had a
child, Joshua.
With her movie career slowing, Aquino shifted her sights on
a television career as a talk show host launched through The
Kris Aquino Show produced by VIVA on Channel 4. But it was
in GMA Network showbiz oriented talk show Startalk where she
co-hosted with Boy Abunda and Lolit Solis that her hosting
capabilities were noticed.
Media conglomerate and GMA Network's rival ABS-CBN noticed
her undeniable hosting wit, offered her a contract and
launched Today with Kris Aquino, one of the most successful
talk shows of the 1990s. In January 2003 to May 2004, she
hosted yet another successful morning talk show that was
supposed to last for 2 weeks but lasted for 16 months
entitled Morning Girls with Kris and Korina alongside
popular media personality Korina Sanchez. Not all of
Aquino's television endeavors were hits; notable failures
include Balitang Kris, which lasted for one season. As of
2005, she hosts The Buzz, a showbiz gossip/talk show with
Boy Abunda and Cristy Fermin for the same network, as well
as Pilipinas, Game KNB?, a game show which focuses on
trivia. She had been also controversial for wearing plunging
dresses which noted her as a fashion-talk show queen.
Aquino is also known for her troublesome relationships.
However, she recently admitted that she and James Yap, who
plays basketball for the Purefoods Chunkee Giants, had a
civil marriage in July 2005. She also revealed in her show,
The Buzz that she and husband James Yap are expecting a baby
in May 2007. In the mid-1990s, Aquino was also involved with
a Purefoods basketball player, Alvin Patrimonio, who was
then married. In her relationship before Yap, she was
involved with then Paranaque mayor Joey Marquez, who she
later split in a tumultuous ending, allegeding that Marquez
pointed a gun at her face, and also gave her venereal
disease. She made her admission on an interview by former
co-host Korina Sanchez on the ABS-CBN newscast TV Patrol.
Such admission became the highest-rating news segment in the
history of Philippine newscast.
Kris Aquino is the highest paid TV Host in the Philippines,
thus, making her the 'Queen of Talk and Game Shows'. She is
also one of the Filipino actresses who are sought after by
companies for product endorsements. At present, she is an
endorser for a popular corned beef brand as well as for San
Miguel Corporation and Smart Communications. Incidentally,
the same corned beef brand is the name of basketball team
that James Yap plays for. Her commercial for San Miguel
became the most remembered tv commercial and was said to
have a 99 percent audience recall. She was paid a total of
P20,000,000.00 for the said endorsement.
Aquino was also bestowed the title of "Commercial Princess
of the Philippines". Such title was given to her for having
numerous of TV and print apperances in Filipino media. and
for being the 2nd-highest paid commercial endorser in the
Philippines (next to the Sharon Cuneta).
She also currently hosts the Philippine franchise of Deal or
No Deal, which is currently in ABS-CBN's primetime lineup.
Kris Aquino got her start in movies with the help of Regal
Films, one of the oldest film outfits in the Philippines.
Her first few movies were mostly wholesome stories, the most
enduring of which was the Pido Dida series, where she was
paired with the late comedian Rene Requiestas and earned her
her first box-office queen award. She later on she shifted
into more serious roles, notably with massacre films such as
The Vizconde Massacre. Despite her being a big draw in the
box office, her acting skills were considered stiff and
mechanical.
She first drew praise for her acting when she bagged a
nomination from the Gawad Urian award-giving body, composed
of film critics, for the film The Fatima Buen Story. She
eventually won a supporting actress award for the film Mano
Po (Regal FIlms), where she portrayed a weak-willed and
submissive scion of a wealthy Filipino-Chinese clan.
But Aquino's most commercially-successful movie in her
career is Feng Shui, a Star Cinema production that featured
Chinese influences and omen. Feng Shui, which was made
during the wave of "Asian-style horror" flicks that spread
throughout the continent since 2002's The Ring, made
P180,218,395. It was the highest grossing Filipino movie of
2004, and the second most successful movie overall next to
Spider-Man 2 which made over P225 million.
Like anyone else, Aquino had her share of box-office bombs.
Her 2003 movie with actor Robin Padilla, You and Me Against
The World, flopped at the box-office right from the start.
Made for P25,000,000 and released immediately after Aquino
won acting awards (for her performance in 2002's Mano Po),
You and Me Against The World made only P4,389,005. The
film's producers lost an estimated P23,000,000, even with
home videos accounted. Because You and Me Against The World
failed to attract an audience, several movie theaters pulled
the film out and replaced it with another film. Some
theaters were reported to have done this on the movie's 2nd
day of play.
She is now married with PBA player James Yap. She is also
expected to have her second child after she announced on The
Buzz that she is pregnant. |
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Other
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Has a son named Joshua with actor Philip Salvador.
Highest paid talk show host in the Philippines.
Her horror movie, Feng Shui was a hit, not only in the
Philippines but also in some parts of the world.
First music appearance was in Ogie Alcasid's Hello. Despite
that Ogie was identified with the rival TV network, Kris
agreed to appear in work with the singer-songwriter since he
was her favorite performer.
Daughter of former Philippine President, Corazon Aquino, and
Philippine national hero Benigno Aquino, a former senator
who was slain when he went back to the Philippines after
seeking asylum in U.S.
Husband James Yap is a basketball star.
Kept her marriage to James Yap a secret. She only admitted
the wedding on April 5, 2006, a day after her former The
Buzz (1999) co-host Ricky Lo reported in his Philippine Star
column the July 10, 2005 wedding. Kris admitted she first
tied the knot with James on May 30, 2005 and re-affirmed it
in a simple wedding at the house of close friend Boy Abunda
in Quezon City on July 10, 2005.
One of the stars mentioned in the song "Alaala ni Batman"
(Memories of Batman) by Radio Active Sago Project. The two
others are her close friend Boy Abunda and German Moreno. |
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