ABANTE TONITE (April 30, 2006)

Marky, tanggap ang panlalait sa itsura niya

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Late si Marky Cielo sa presscon ng bago niyang show sa GMA na Fantastikids pero hindi raw totong nagbago na siya’t lumaki na ang kanyang ulo, sa katunayan ay umalis siya agad sa taping ng SiS kahit hindi pa ito tapos para makapunta na siya sa presscon.

Hindi raw alam ni Marky kung kaya na niyang magdala ng sarili niyang show pero masaya raw siya at flattered na pinagkakatiwalaan siya ng Kapuso network.

Kabado man siya at pressured sa Fantastikids (kung saan gumaganap siya sa papel ng bidang si Daniel na may superpowers na nagmumula sa isang mahiwagang celfone) ay kailangan daw pangatawanan niya ang kanyang titulo bilang StarStruck 3 Ultimate Sole Survivor.

Aminado ang Igorot boy na problema pa rin niya ang pagba-buckle sa pagde-deliver niya ng mga dayalog pero lagi raw niyang binibigay ang best niya sa bawat pagganap niya.

Aware rin siyang may mga nanlalait sa acting niya (lalo na sa Encantadia) kaya raw ginagawa niya ang lahat para ma-improve pa ang pag-arte niya.

"Kung hindi po maganda ang comment nila sa akin, wala akong magagawa, kasi, comment nila ‘yun, eh! Tatanggapin ko po ‘yon, pero pipilitin kong i-improve ang sarili ko. I always do my best at saka pinag-aaralan ko po ‘yung mga ginawa kong trabaho para alam ko kung saan ko pa dapat pagbutihin," sey ng 17-anyos na binata.

Hindi rin daw nao-offend si Marky sa sinasabi ng iba na kesyo hindi siya gwapo at marami pang iba na mas mukhang artista kesa sa kanya.

"Tanggap ko na po ‘yon, eh! Huwag mo nang sabihing pangit, okey na ‘yung hindi gwapo! He He He!

"Basta ako, nag-e-enjoy ako rito ngayon sa showbiz kaya hindi na lang ako magpapaapekto, di ba?" nakangiting pakli niya.

Ang lamang daw siguro niya sa iba kahit hindi siya guwapo ay meron siyang talent at alam niyang pag-aralan at gamitin kung anong meron siya.

Proud din daw siya sa kanyang ugali dahil kahit kanino ay marunong siyang makisama.

Nagwakas na ang Encantadia pero tatlo pa rin ang shows ni Marky dahil sa Fantastikids (ang dalawa pa ay Love to Love at SOP Gigsters).

Hindi raw siya naiinggit kahit lamang sa kanya ang StarStruck 3 Avenger na si Chuck Allie na lima ang shows (Love to Love, SOP Gigsters at Now & Forever sa GMA, Fans Kita at Family Zoo sa QTV-11) dahil pana-panahon daw ‘yon.

Isa pa, pagkatapos daw ng StarStruck ay back to zero na silang lahat kaya kanya-kanya nang diskarte.

Happy si Marky sa loveteam nila ni Jackie Rice pero hindi raw niya nililigawan ang dalaga. Mas nasasanay na raw sila sa isa’t isa at mas nagiging close pero nasa level ng magkaibigan at magkapatid pa lang daw ang turingan nila. Maganda raw at mabait si Jackie pero hindi niya masagot nang diretso kung type niya itong maging girlfriend.

Isang bagong kotse at celfone pa lang daw ang nabili ni Mark mula sa napanalunan niyang premyo sa StarStruck, ang natira raw ay itinago niya lahat sa banko.

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MARKY NEWS- MANILA TIMES

Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Manila Times, SHOWBITS
By Danny Vibas

So what are the top four winners of the recently concluded Starstruck contest of GMA up to these days? Marky Cielo, Jacky Rice, Iwa Motto and Gian Carlo are cast in the continuing comic episode of Sunday afternoon drama series Love to Love, along with senior stars Luz Valdez and Leo Martinez. “Showbits” recently caught them pitting their budding comic talent against young comic veterans Ogie Alcasid, Michael V and Rufa Mae Quinto of the gag show Bubble Gang.

Marky, whose mother is a native of Benguet, has also been getting a lot of promo mileage for being an Igorot. He was recently asked to join the early-morning flag-raising ceremony in Malacañang and to do some native dance with his fellow Igorots afterward. This highlander, who was born in Butuan City in Mindanao and whose father is a native of Mindanao, is going places.

MARKY NEWS -SUNSTAR

Sun Star Baguio

Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Marky Cielo is Igorot icon?


BONTOC, Mountain Province -- An interesting mix of the rich Igorot culture and show business happened during the second Lang-ay festival that even upstaged the traditional politician speakers like Senator Edgardo Angara.

The two very diverse worlds met in Bontoc when first Igorot teen star Marky Cielo, this year's GMA 7 lone Starstruck survivor, came home and risked the ire of his home network when he and his family granted the overwhelming request of his province to grace the grand gathering of the different tribes of Mountain Province.

With their innate reserve by nature, the crowd did not become unruly as is usually the case in Metro Manila and the lowlands, but cheers and claps were noticeably louder and more people trooped to the gym when Cielo arrived at the venue compared with the arrival of Angara, the guest speaker.

A day before Cielo's arrival, a grand canao was held in his honor where pigs were butchered the traditional way steeped with rituals, in his mother's hometown of Sinto, Bauko where his grand parents - Marcos and Marcelina Cadaweng - reside.

The fierce tribal spirit that propelled a whole province to a text brigade to consciously and religiously text-vote daily to prove a point that Igorots are not "lesser beings with tails" - a racial slur in the past against Igorots - was again in evidence with the division of labor seen in preparing for his arrival in Barangay Sinto, Bauko.

Although busy preparing for their contribution to the festivities in Bontoc, the adults constructed an ingenious makeshift stage by putting side by side two vegetable trucks as base, covered with pine tree barks and wood to disguise it, and backdrop-painted a traditional Igorot life with the spectacular mountains in front of the Mount Data Hotel where his grand parents used to work and bring him to play basketball as a kid.

The young people were rehearsing their own cultural presentation for the welcome program while their parents were constructing the stage. The older folks, on the other hand, performed the rituals and prepared the food, making the preparation a whole community affair.

Neither a relative nor a close neighbor, Marjorie Sawidan said they were not paid for their effort.

"This is to show that we love Marky and he deserves this welcome," said Aladdin Olsim, 44, an architect and one of the artists.

Cielo's statement that he is proud of being an Igorot that earned him the admiration and support of the entire Mountain Province, that even the governor, Maximo Dalog, gave an inter-office memorandum for the province's officialdom to text-vote for Cielo everyday.

Along with the people of Mountain Province, Cielo, although admittedly only half Igorot as his father is from Iligan City, was treated with the rare opportunity of seeing the different tribes perform their traditional dances and chants in full regalia in one place.

From the war dances, reenactment of hunting scenes with live wild pigs, deer and monkey of Barlig, the fast, intricate footwork of Paracelis and Natonin mimicking eagles flying doing the "eagle dance" in their very vivid reds and blues intricately beaded headdresses and hand-woven costumes and blackened teeth, to old men bearing ancient Chinese jars known as "gusi" in the local dialect brimming with aged native wine in a parade in their g-strings.

The Sagada men chant the "wawe" or the beginning of Begnas, the biggest festival of all, and women in their snake bones headdresses and antique beads and bones, and men wearing animal tusks as neckpieces, dance and perform in the searing heat of asphalt and cement barefoot.

Taking pride for being one of the few unconquered areas in the country by the 300-year Spain dominion due to its mountainous terrain that is now ironically a major obstacle in development due to bad roads, Dalog said "we should take pride in the fact that we were not dominated by Spain or else, we would not have Lang-ay."

In his speech, Angara said although Mountain Province remains one of the poorest provinces in the country, the fierce spirit and pride of being Igorots remain and with Cielo's victory "as he has shown our young people that they will also be able to attain their dreams in life."

He said whether Cielo likes it or not, he is now an Igorot icon because he has shown that neither distance nor economic status matter in attaining dreams.

MARKY NEWS

A hero’s welcome for Marky Cielo
First posted 10:06pm (Mla time) April 12, 2006
By Desiree Caluza
Inquirer


BONTOC, MT. PROVINCE—Marky Cielo, “ultimate survivor” of the “Starstruck” reality TV search on GMA 7, returned to his native province last week amid a welcome fit for a hometown hero.

The 17-year-old Cielo graced the Lang-Ay Festival here on Friday, when various tribes gathered “to celebrate unity and cooperation” through traditional dances, songs and rituals.

Saying he was proud to have broken into mainstream show business, Cielo admitted he feels the pressure to be a role model for young Igorots.

“People look up to me now,” he told reporters.

Residents of Bauko, Cielo’s hometown, butchered pigs by way of preparing a feast for him. The main roads were draped with welcome streamers.

Native dishes

Cielo told his hosts that he had missed eating the local delicacies pinikpikan (a native chicken soup dish), etag (salted and dried pork) and dinengdeng (a vegetable dish).

He performed on the grounds of the Mt. Data Hotel on Thursday. The next morning, he joined the cultural parade.

Cielo’s mother Mildred said her son decided to join the festival to thank provincemates who had supported him with text votes during the competition.

A team from GMA 7 documented the festive homecoming.

No G-string

Cielo did not wear a G-string during the fest, but donned a native vest and headgear.

“We are grateful to Marky [in return],” said Gov. Maximo Dalog in a short program during the festival opening. “His [achievement] is historic [for us here in] Mt. Province.” I am sure that our young people [would follow Marky’s example and] work harder for their dreams.”

Sen. Edgardo Angara, festival guest speaker, cited Cielo as “the pride not only of Cordillerans but of all Filipinos.”

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