Singer Sheena Palad and veteran actress Eva Darren. Picture: Fb/Shenaa Lee, Fernando de la Pena
Singer Sheena Palad addressed the fiasco on the current Filipino Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) awards evening, saying she didn’t know veteran actress Eva Darren was alleged to be the presenter of the award she was instructed to current.
Palad, the “upcoming youthful singer” who “changed” Darren as Tirso Cruz III’s co-presenter, spoke up on the incident to air her aspect by a video on her Fb web page on Monday, Could 27.
Palad was accompanied within the video by her boyfriend, host-singer Johann Enriquez, who additionally empathized with the household of Darren.
“We simply wish to be simple with what occurred,” Enriquez started. “No matter occurred po, talagang we regret it. And si Sheena, wala po siyang kinalaman about what occurred. I feel FAMAS is doing its finest to mitigate the priority.”
Palad, narrating what transpired through the occasion, continued: “I used to be chosen, I used to be known as by the organizers to carry out for the Dinner Pleasure. The Dinner Pleasure is the leisure for supper time.”
After her efficiency, Palad stated she modified to her second apparel and was on standby when one of many employees members approached her and requested for “an enormous favor.”
“Sabi niya, ‘Are you able to current the awards?’ Sabi ko, ‘Okay, sige. No downside.’—that’s it. ‘Yun lang po ‘yung alam ko. Hindi ko po alam na si Ms. Eva ‘yung magpe-present po,” Palad confused.
“Truly nung time na ‘yon, I used to be clueless. Hindi po kasi ako nanunuod nung awards evening as a result of I used to be within the holding space. So, hindi ko po alam kung paano mag-present,” she acknowledged, including that she even mispronounced the identify of the late German Moreno as she was all tensed up.
Palad additional famous that she was not ready and that she was not in a position to learn the script previous to presenting the award.
“Ang instruction lang po sa akin, ‘Sheena, you’re gonna current after you sing the manufacturing quantity,” she acknowledged. “I used to be simply following directions. ‘Yun lang, I hope you might be enlightened with the state of affairs.”
Palad then turned emotional as Enriquez appealed to the general public to cease bashing the previous, who was simply “doing her job” and “is harmless.”
Previous to this, the organizers of the FAMAS awards evening apologized to Darren and her household, saying the actress needed to be “changed” as a result of she couldn’t be “situated by the manufacturing crew” on the ceremony.
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The actress’ son, Fernando de la Peña, then accepted the award-giving physique’s apology and suggested the organizers to “follow the script” and put on “a pleasant pair of eyeglasses” for subsequent yr’s awarding ceremony.
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