No sugar daddies here.
Dapitan City Mayor Bullet Jalosjos and Quezon City 4th District Rep. Bong Suntay on Tuesday denied allegations they were “benefactors” of actor and model Dominic Roque following the latter’s breakup with top actress Bea Alonzo.
Jalosjos and Suntay broke their silence in a YouTube interview, while Roque, in a statement made through his lawyers, “strongly condemn[ed] the malicious and defamatory public statements of Ms. [Cristy] Fermin” who insinuated the alleged romantic links on her vlog posts.
Jalosjos, who said he has been good friends with Roque for a decade now, admitted he owns the condo unit the actor has been renting for three years now “at a good price.”
“It’s funny how the issue jumped from being a business transaction to being a kept man. I hope those who spread these false allegations – they even claim to be veteran journalists – would be more careful because they have a responsibility to the people to fact-finding, and not assume that just because the condo is in my name, that I am automatically a sugar daddy,” the mayor said.
Suntay also denied allegations that he gave Roque a gasoline station.
Suntay said Roque was hired as a “celebrity driver” and eventually brand ambassador of his business, Clean Fuel.
Roque, for his part, said Fermin’s vlog posts were done “under the guise of entertainment news without any effort from her to confirm the same.”
The actor confirmed leasing the condo unit but denied Jalosjos and Suntay were his “benefactors.”
“He is embarrassed and apologizes to Mayor Bullet Jalosjos and his family for being dragged into the public conversation because of the malicious, defamatory public innuendos of Ms. Fermin,” Roque said in the statement released by his lawyers.
“By making such a statement, Ms. Fermin made the innuendo that unreasonably casts doubt on the sexuality of former Congressman Bong Suntay. Furthermore, Mr. Dominic Roque does not own a Clean Fuel gas station; in fact, all Clean Fuel gas stations are company-owned.”
Roque also shot down rumors he and Alonzo broke up over a prenuptial agreement.
“Reckless statements relating to the alleged disagreement over a pre-nuptial agreement between them are not only unverified but merely based on speculations intended to produce a negative image on the parties concerned.”