Local television’s most riotous and happiest game show, VIVA Communications Inc. and TV5’s Happy Truck Happinas, begins its 2016 season with an even bigger line-up of hosts, exciting game portions, better look and new name.
The tried and tested wacky tandem of Ogie Alcasid and Janno Gibbs are the program’s front liners as main hosts together with Kapatid network hunk Derek Ramsay and formidable Kapatid artists Gelli de Beien, Tuesday Vargas, Empoy, Tom Taus, Kim Idol, Alwyn Uytingco, Ritz Azul, Eula Caballero and VIVA’s all-girl group Sugar and Spice making up the “The Happy Peeps” squad.
More exciting prizes will be given away to lucky contestants, who will be brought by the Happy Truck from various barangays to the TV5 studios. Handpicked studio participants will then be asked to join the “Linggo Limbo” warm-up game, where the five best limbo rock performers will be chosen by Ogie and Janno to advance in the portion’s next level. Each “Linggo Limbo” level corresponds to a cash prize.
Aside from “Linggo Limbo,” other fresh segments on Happy Truck Happinas include Kim Idol’s “Dummy Kong Tawa,” “My DIY (My Daddy is Yummy),” a studio search for good looking and hot daddies, and “Mutya Ka ng Bayan (The Next Beks actor),” a talent search for gays with extraordinary skills/jobs.
The revitalized Happy Truck Happinas also offers remote segments like “Kalye Diva,” for biriteras in barangays. “I-Peg Peg Mo,” for those with celebrity look-alikes, and “Special Delivery,” where a neighbor can vote for someone who has one a good deed and who will receive a surprise gift from the Happy Truck.
Other segments worth watching for are “Basagan ng Brains,” “IQ ay Pilipino,” “OJ In-Between,” “VideOK na, KantaRant,” “Quick ang Answer,” “Pik Pak Boom,” “Walang Hulugan!” and “Walang Basagan ng Trip.”
The “happinas” to be spread by the Happy Truck gang of Ogie, Janno, Derek and others will be made double by the addition of new mainstays, led by the country’s new child wonder Alonzo Muhlach, 2016 “It” Girl Shy Carlos, “Princess of the Dance Floor” Yassi Pressman, VIVA artists Meg Imperial, Sam Pinto, Bangs Garcia, Ella Cruz, Roxee B, Kim Molina, Monica Cuenca and the new all-male group of YOLOL (You Only Live Once Lang) composed of Akihiro Blanco, Andrew Muhlach, VJ Marquez, Jason Salvador, Owy Posadas and Jack Reid.
Don’t be left behind. Come join the more exciting, bigger and better Happy Truck Happinas ride starting at 11 a.m. on Sunday only on TV5.
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Solid Grace and Chiz
Ogie Alcasid has written two songs for the campaign of Senator Grace Poe who is running for president in the coming elections.
Alcasid will even sing the songs in the sorties of Partido Galing at Puso.
“I might join sa Lipa, sa Iloilo, at sa kanyang miting de avance,” the singer-songwriter said during the grand press conference of Happy Truck HAPPinas on TV5 on Feb. 24.
We all know that Alcasid is a supporter of President Noynoy Aquino, but this time he chose to throw his support to the Grace-Chiz tandem and not on the administration’s candidates.
“Tandem sila ni Chiz so doon ako sa kanila,” Alcasid said when asked if he’d be supportive of Escudero as well.
“Solid na ‘yan, pero si Regine, hindi ko naman siya isinasali sa ganyan, this is my thing. Pero alam mo naman yung asawa ko, kung saan ako, doon siya. But I don’t impose it on her,” added Ogie.
Regine sais that her husband throws his support base on principles and to those whom he thinks will help the nation best.