Maine Mendoza’s phenomenal appeal reigned supreme at Nickelodeon’s 2016 Kids’ Choice Awards as she wins the Favorite Pinoy Personality Award. The other half of the sensational AlDub tandem joins the roster of Adele, Jenifer Lawrence, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, and Fifth Harmony, among others, to bring home coveted orange blimps that represent the best of everything that kids love in pop culture.
“Yaya Dub” extended her gratitude in a video message saying that it was such an honor to receive the award, and that she is very grateful to everyone who voted for her despite not being present at the awards show to personally receive it. Apart from Maine, fellow Filipino and basketball star player, JeronTeng, beats other international nominees in the new Favorite Asian Sports Star category.
The Kids’ Choice Awards held at the “Fabulous” Forum in Inglewood, California, and hosted by country music superstar and coach on NBC’s The Voice, Blake Shelton, premiered March 14 in Nickelodeon Asia. It kicked off with host, Shelton, getting pep talks from celebrity friends including Adam Levine, Pharrell Williams, Nick Jonas, Selena Gomez, Chewbacca and BB-8. After being alerted that the Stormtroopers were trying to take over the 2016 Kids’ Choice Awards, Shelton jumped into action and battled his way onto the show stage via a super-charged chair from The Voice.
During the show, singer-songwriter Charlie Puth and hip-hop star Wiz Khalifa performed a medley of “One Call Away” and “See You Again,” right before taking home the blimp for Favorite Collaboration. Rapper Silento appeared as well to sing his mega-hit “Watch Me (Whip/NaeNae),” and DNCE closed the show with a performance of their chart-topping single “Cake by the Ocean”, that culminated with an ultimate slime-dousing of the audience.
The 2016 Kids’ Choice Awards proved to be a mega slime fest, from kids in the audience awarding Shelton with an epic finale sliming, to Jace Norman dumping a bucket of green goo on John Stamos, to Fifth Harmony getting drenched after their win for Favorite Music Group, and Shelton welcoming Jason Sudeikis and Josh Gad to the green side.
Additional celebrities in attendance included: Robert Downey Jr., Amy Poehler, Rob Gronkowski, Ellen DeGeneres, Chris Evans, Meghan Trainor, Fifth Harmony, Heidi Klum, Keke Palmer, Anthony Anderson, John Stamos, Chloe Bennet, Buddy Valastro, Sarah Hyland, Dove Cameron, Grant Gustin, Laura Marano, Zendaya, Will Arnett, Debby Ryan, and cast members from Dance Moms, plus stars of Nickelodeon’s hit series Game Shakers (Kel Mitchell, Benjamin Flores Jr., Cree Cicchino, Madisyn Shipman, Thomas Kuc) and The Thundermans (Jack Griffo and Kira Kosarin).
Kids and families cast votes in 22 categories, including two new ones, Favorite Cooking Show and Favorite Collaboration. In Asia, Nickelodeon introduced the Favorite Asian Sports Star category, in which Jeron Teng was the winner. The fans were able to vote for their top picks across all of Nickelodeon’s digital platforms including KCA2016.com and Twitter using #KCA.
Catch the replay of the awards today at 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. tomorrow.
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Best friends LOVI and HEART campaigned in Ilocos
The Lovi Poe-Heart Evangelista tandem, avid supporters of Senators Grace Poe and Francis “Chiz” Escudero are all set to join the candidates’ campaign sorties. First stop: Ilocos Norte.
The Poes and Escuderos treat each other like family, and Lovi and Heart are the best of friends.
Lovi and Heart were excited when they found out they would be together in Ilocos. Heart had gone to Davao, Bacolod, and Cebu, but it was Lovi’s first time to join her sister’s campaign sortie.
They even posted photos on their respective Instagram accounts. The two were wearing identical shirts embroidered with “Poe” and “Escudero” and printed with “Say Chiz.”
Also, the best friends posed for a photo with Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos and immediately posted it on their Instagram accounts.
Many are wondering why they posed with a Marcos when in fact they’re from different political parties.
“Politics should not be bitter or acrimonious. Took a pic with Imee Marcos before leaving for #Laoag to campaign #PoeEscudero2016. I’d like to think this world would be a better place if we can all do the same,” Heart captioned the photo on Instagram.
“Indeed the world would be a better place if we were all friendly and nice to each other. Took a photo with Ms. Imee. #PoeEscudero2016,” Lovi posted as well.